Light at the end of the tunnel...

Finally Spring Semester is done! (well, pretty much...)

I just presented a huge project on Tuesday, and tomorrow I have another class at the college.
For my project, I'm 99% complete, just need to submit my last assignment, write a quick class evaluation, and finish a little documentation. Then its a week or two and then I start summer semester. :(

For the record, I've starved myself of video games (and friends :)) for a while so that I could focus on this project. So I have broken out some of the newer games I had purchased. I've been avidly playing NFS: Hot Pursuit, I love playing Interceptor and Hot Pursuit missions. I feel like I should take it to the streets and "encourage" those breaking the law to pull over. But I'm sure the local police department will not agree with my enthusiastic endeavors.

Also I'm trying to figure out if I should upgrade my videocard (well more like which card I should get), buy FRAPS, or both (or none).
I've been looking on the Nvidia side of things the GTX 560 ti, GTX 570 (a bit too pricey for ATM, but I'm considering it).
For the AMD side 6870 and the 6950.

In short, I my current gpu is a EVGA 9800 GTX+, I would like to get a video card that will be a considerable upgrade from what I have so I can play more graphical games at higher settings. So I've been just doing a bit of price/performance comparision shopping to see my choices. I am more of an Nvidia fan, and I'm more partial to getting an EVGA card. But if the better choice is to go AMD, then I might just go with AMD.

Otherwise, everything else is blah. I installed unregistered FRAPS on my desktop to test it out.
Basically with the unregistered version you can only record 30 second intervals, and there is a small watermark on the top. But what I like about it is that in some of the other unregistered video capture programs I've tried is that it doesn't shrink the screen size of the output file. Some of the others had the time limit and they would cut the screen size down to 25% of the screen.
So in the near future I'll have the full version of FRAPS so that I can capture some cool or random gaming moments. So far I've just tested it on Minecraft, so I'm excited to see how it will look when recording other games.

Anyways, thats all for now!