Got in the mood to upgrade my PC..I'm running a fairly standard rig 3.2GHZ intel quad core, with 4 GB or DDR3 RAM, 500gb HDD.. So looking at the things that are quick bolt on I opted to update my wireless router, HDD, RAM and Video card.

Got a 2TB SATA HDD DONE!

Got 4-2GB sticks of DDR3 ram DONE!

Got the Linksys e3000 wireless router DONE!

Then I got a Radeon HD 4350 1GB of GDDR2.. here's where the fun starts

installed the GPU. fired up the rig.. my whole screen has a blue green tint to it.. So I go back through the whole process of uninstalling the drivers enabling the old GPU ect.ect. Do a fresh install of the card same thing.. Well by this time its 1:30am (We nerds work best under the cover of night). I gave up a decided to take it to the Geek Squad today.

Get to the squad guy plug it in and is like oh wow looks like you got a bad card . ya think? He goes and gets another one, offers to install it for free. Got the new one installed, fire up the box and it's snowing..yep another faulty card. well being that it was the last one of that model on the shelf we went and got one that was 10.00 more expensive $10.00 little did I know. He throws that one over in there, Blue Screen of DEATH system wont even boot, Yep another bad card all from the same maker..

By now I've had enough..Lets get one we know will work no questions asked..
So we walk to the back he point pick one of these two $229.00 and $179.99

I got the $179.99 he pulls it out and holy crap..


Slap it in and Poof everything is just fine..

So after spending 179.99 and 1.5 hours what did I get

one video card (that works)
two Digital HD movie downloads with the card
three Free installs by the gee squad
a free copy of Call of Duty Black Ops
and hole in my wallet to match the headach.