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• 22Mar 13

  Another New Year and B-Day passes on........

  Yup just celebrated my B-Day earlier this month.  But in other matters relating to PC games and media entertainment collecting, I did pick up some new stuff as usual.  For PC games I picked up Call Of Duty: Black Ops and The Sims 2: Apartment Life expansion pack for $19.97 and $14.97 respectively (before sales taxes).  Most recently (like most SCII fans) I picked up Starcraft II: Heart Of The Swarm for a total of $36.69 after taxes and a $8.50 store credit @ EB Games .  For movies in the last several months since the New Years, I picked up The Adventures Of Tintin Blu-Ray 3D combo pack, Dredd Blu-Ray 3D combo pack, End Of Watch Blu-Ray/DVD, Flight Blu-Ray combo pack and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Blu-Ray 3D combo pack.  And that pretty much rounds off everything rather quietly so far this year.  But then again, I've been putting more of my $$$ towards my car so far, as I'll be swapping out my winters for my summer wheels/tires.  And with that, I'll be upgrading the suspensions to the factory optional sport suspensions, as well as replacing the rear sway bar and bushings with a new stronger/firmer one .

  • Posted Mar 22, 2013 9:49 pm GMT
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• 30Dec 12

  X-Mas/Holiday loot

  So another X-Mas and year is about to pass. But not before I picked up more new stuff in the last two months, just in time to end off the year . First to start, I ended up getting two Sapphire Radeon HD 7970s. I got one recently during this Boxing Day week for $369.99 ($418.09 after taxes) and the other during the Black Friday sale week back in November (which is now in effect locally here where I live, as it is an American based sale week) for $379.99 ($429.39 afte taxes), both from Canada Computers. Obviously I at some point in time plan to Crossfire those two bad boys in my AMD Phenom X6 1100T based system. For new PC games, I got Max Payne 3, the Max Payne 3 strategy guide and the Diablo III strategy guide for $19.99, $19.83 (with employee discount) and $14.95 respectively (before taxes). On Boxing Day I picked up both Dishonoured and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for $29.99 each (before taxes) at Future Shop. As for movies/shows, I picked up The Dark Knight Rises Future Shop Steelbook Edition for $27.99 and Family Guy Vol. 9 DVD for $10 (with employee discount). During the Boxing Day week, I got on Blu-Ray The Campaign ($15), Horrible Bosses ($10), Battleship ($15), Lockout ($15), The Hangover ($7), Ice Age: Continental Drift Blu-Ray 3D combo ($25) and finally, Puss In Boots Blu-Ray 3D combo ($20).

  • Posted Dec 30, 2012 8:25 pm GMT
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• 19Nov 12

  i7 990 Extreme Edition and other new stuff

  Well it's another long overdue blog update of mines, so I'll waste no time. As the title implies, I recently purchased an i7 990 Extreme Edition (for the socket 1366) for one of my PC rigs. I installed it in my rig that was running my i7 980 (non-extreme edtion) and now that i7 980 is happily running in my "media-based" rig which was pictured in my last blog update. So offically I have 3 PCs sporting hexa-core based CPUs (i7 990X, i7 980 and Athlon 1100T). Other new stuff I purchased in the last few months were Snow White And The Huntsman Future Shop Steelbook Edition, Marvel's The Avengers Steelbook Edition (Blu-Ray combo pack which includes both Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D version), Prometheus Blu-Ray combo pack (with Blu-Ray 3D version), Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Blu-Ray combo pack (with Blu-Ray 3D version) and The Amazing Spider-Man Future Shop Steelbook Editon. For games I purchased Diablo III, XCOM: Enemy Unknown and another copy of Mass Effect 2 Collector's Edition which I will hold onto to see if appreciates in $$$ value over time . I purchased the three games with one of my Wal-Mart employee appreciation month coupons, so I save a few $$$ on them there altogether . In total I paid $144.18 for all three games after discount/taxes. Some other purchases I made with my other two employee coupons were an Armor-All In-Car Vac, STP Tire Shine 2-pack and Epson High-Capacity Ink Colour Pack.

  • Posted Nov 19, 2012 12:45 pm GMT
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