Random Giveaway

Thanks to randomgiveaway, I got freebies! I got awesome freebies!

First of all, this:

So this isn’t that exciting, for the vast majority of people. But the vast majority of people don’t enjoy filing paperwork as much as I do. (I’m weird, but that particular bit of weird is a useful one.)

It’s a regular irritation when I receive post that doesn’t have a specific date on it, because it messes up my filing system. Now I have a solution! I mean, I could have written dates on, but that’s just not as satisfying.

Next, there was a specific call to give something to someone who had a desktop PC and were happy tinkering inside. I definitely fall into that category. I was expecting an old CD drive or hard drive, or possibly a USB PCI card. Something not massively useful, but something I could use.

Nope.

Wow. That’s actually… wow. That’s a pretty serious bit of kit right there.

Naturally, I installed it straight away (I’ve also since dusted):

So let’s see how it does. Forgive me the Windows benchmarks, but it seemed the easiest way to get a bloody obvious indicator of just how serious a bit of kit this is:

As I say, this is a rather overdue post; that graphics card has been powering my gaming without the slightest issue for over a year.

Now I just need to work out what to do with the card it replaced, which was not too shabby itself, even after a few years of use and another year of me procrastinating. I’d pay the gift forward, but that’s already been done. Plus I’d have given the game away. Current plan is probably to sell it and give the proceeds to charity.

I received something from randomgiveaway!

Received a parcel this morning from randomgiveaway, 4 pairs of cozy toe-feet-glove-socks ^.^ my feet do like to loose all temperature so these shall be used, and I shall give away a pair or two to some of my cold feeted friends.