Hardware update

..or how my pc grows up 5 years too late.

In the long meantime since I've been working on you, blog, my main hard drive has died by the way.
I've lost a lot of things that meant a lot to me like the logs from all of my time in Furcadia and SL (since it had logging). Saved memories have a big meaning to me especially due to my condition with my impaired memory and I guess the fact that I had been losing so much of myself from the past.

Anyhow I always loved to be able to go back and read how me and a good friend met the first time or even just to be able to go back and look up something I had been told before or just something that made me smile. I also never liked to lose roleplays after working on the posts. Before SL had a log option I hated to lose RPs and copy pasting into notepad didn't always work when crashing for example.

Now I lost several years worth of conversations and roleplay. I didn't have a backup of them. Constantly updating files to be burned on a permanent disc again and again somehow never appealed and I didn't expect my main drive to just die from one day to another. Go bad maybe, lose data, start scratching itself like an old one I had yeah, but not just waking up one day and it doesn't even spin anymore.
I've also lost the work files for my edited pictures, video clips I recorded and of course a lot of other stuff but anything downloaded or installed doesn't matter much compared to the loss of memories.

Anyways I am rambling. I meant to get to the good point about my hardware as well.
It will be my birthday soon (Dec 20th) and eventually after having this PC for years already I will have 2GB of RAM and I am curious about how that will feel, multitasking finally working better, loading times being shorter, program stuttering going away, some games becoming playable for me just like when I got from 256MB to 512MB.
It'll be great I am sure.
When I put my current PC together, which was the first one that wasn't second hand from family members, it cost us a lot of money for our situation then (and now we have even a lot less money) and after getting the ASUS A7N8X mainboard with a AMD 3200 XP, the case, etc I had run out of money and could only afford a 256Mb RAM for the rest of the money. A junk brand at that unfortunately.
The thing is this motherboard is (was by now) powerful and needy and it crashes such cheap RAM if running at full speed because the chips are not of a good enough quality to be reliable. So all this time I am running the CPU on like a 2500MHz instead of a 3200Mhz because I have to keep the frequency lower for the RAM.
Also 256MB aren't really much as you surely know. Windows alone used almost all of that and I was purely running on my hard drive as virtual memory. My time in SL consisted of logging in with a clear cache, be a little smooth while things weren't rezzed yet then I would freeze up almost completely, relogging with cleared cache every 5-10minutes to start over.
Yeah I don't know either how I managed to survive 3 years on the PC like that in total with every program running that well.

Then the additional 256MB came from wonderful friends who had old hardware they wouldn't need anymore and sent them to me over half the globe. They upgraded my life really by doing that since the PC is my gateway to living and I am still very very grateful for it. Thank you <3
512Mb felt amazing compared to before. I could actually move freely in SL for example! Like walking and looking around and staying online for hours. Beautiful.

So now I will be making a jump from 512MB to 2GB when I get the ram as combined gift for birthday and Christmas and I am really looking forward to the performance boost. Finally my PC would get the full potential ..when it actually already become outdated.

Well enough rambling about this for now.

(Please pardon possible typos and bad phrasing. I just scribbled this together, overtired, not working it over much really yet)