Well, it's SUPPOSED to be, but it isn't. It's a Soundblaster-something-or-another, and 90% of the time, when I play a DirectX game, it will, at some point or another, freeze with a repeating sound over and over again, causing me to reboot. Annoying as hell, which is part of the reason I don't tend to play PC games often.
As to updating this POS bit by bit, that's what I've been doing for the last five years. Started out with 128MB of RAM, a crappy video card, 13GB HD, and now I've got 384MB of RAM, over 90GB of space and a better video card (that is still crappy when compared to today's). We also have new speakers, after the original ones died in the middle of the night, waking me up and freaking me the hell out. Oh, and I've been through three keyboards and two mice. Finally, my monitor is on its last legs. It started flickering a few months ago, off and on, and there's this spot on the left side of the screen that's more than a little screwy in terms of display of certain colours.
Short form of above: I'm done putting money into this thing. Considering I have zero money to put into it to begin with, when I DO get some money that should be coming to me at some point before I die, I'll be investing that in a new system that'll last me another five years or so.
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As to updating this POS bit by bit, that's what I've been doing for the last five years. Started out with 128MB of RAM, a crappy video card, 13GB HD, and now I've got 384MB of RAM, over 90GB of space and a better video card (that is still crappy when compared to today's). We also have new speakers, after the original ones died in the middle of the night, waking me up and freaking me the hell out. Oh, and I've been through three keyboards and two mice. Finally, my monitor is on its last legs. It started flickering a few months ago, off and on, and there's this spot on the left side of the screen that's more than a little screwy in terms of display of certain colours.
Short form of above: I'm done putting money into this thing. Considering I have zero money to put into it to begin with, when I DO get some money that should be coming to me at some point before I die, I'll be investing that in a new system that'll last me another five years or so.