After NVIDIA announced their crazy cheap 9400GT, you just knew AMD wasn’t going to be too far behind. In fact, they are releasing TWO super cheap cards with respectable specs. The 512MB Radeon HD 4550 will set you back $55, while the 256MB Radeon HD 4350 will set you back a cool $39. Both cards will support DirectX 10.1 and even support for CrossFireX, so you can pair two of these badboys up and probably get some pretty average performance.

I remember I once paid 170 dollars for an ATI 850xt. I hate you computer gaming, you are like the Ike to my Tina. I mean that both because you beat me and you are dead.

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I remember when I first realized I hated the Wii, all my friends decided I just didn’t get it. I just wasn’t cool or hip enough to realize what pure unbridled fun was to be held in that little system. I felt like an old man, bitter in my old age and not understanding what these crazy kids see. Maybe I had lost sight of the innocence that once surrounded video games. Could I have been blinded by things like intricate and mature storylines and incredibly advanced graphics?

It must have been, for now I see the truth.

Now I realize how much fun can really be had with this system, I mean, a pedometer peripheral! Now I get it! Now I see the appeal! I can’t wait to strap this thing to my belt buckle and play the new and exciting Wii title, A Nice Casual Stroll Around The Mall Right After It Opens 2009.

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I had actually known about this for a while thanks to spending lots of time dressed as a teenager and hanging out at the mall along with talking to enough people who were conned into thinking Gamestop would actually be a good job and not a retail hell too evil to comprehend, but now Youtube has given us visual evidence; In older, smaller stores, the only concievable place to store video game consoles is the bathroom. Yum! I don’t really know why people are freaking out about this, it isn’t like the first thing you do when you get a new system is lick it. Out of all the horrible things Gamestop does, this ranks pretty low. It would be like if Michael Vick was actually vilified for not washing his hands before making cookies, and not vilified for the fact he was a terrible quarterback.

What? I don’t remember him doing anything else wrong.

EDIT: Hey PETA, I’m just kidding. Isn’t there a KFC you should be protesting?

Apparently at some point in the last decade Diamond went from being a well respected innovator of computer graphics to becoming the American republican party. Six months worth of GeCube manufactured Radeon HD 3800s resold by Diamond have been suffering from such a large amount of problems that Alienware actually shipped back every piece of equipment they received from them and severed all ties with the company.

Diamond has gone on record saying that absolutely nothing is wrong with their cards and that next month, instead of making any attempt to fix the issues that exist they will simply make tens of thousands of more flawed cards and inundate the market with them in a surge of shoddy products.

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