My precious! Damn, this card is expensive! My GeForce 8500GT stop working last month and I have no choice I need a card to power my HTPC while waiting for the warranty claim. Without much thought I bought a new card right there and than. I wonder if this is a marketing gimmick – You return a card and at the same time you have to purchase a new one! I use to...

Mar 11, 2008

This is my new casing; I bought it in February 23rd. I am looking for a case that has a quality build for proper cooling. Due to pricing factor I have chosen this mid tower to replace my existing casing. I wish I could afford to buy Antec P182SE Advanced Super Mid Tower – Mirror Look. My Gigabyte 8500GT display card stop working last month (card less than...

Nov 11, 2007

320GB WD Hard drive, my choice of chassis and Fiber Optics for the HTPC It’s been 2 weeks since my last thought of installing my 320GB Western Digital WD3200AAKS on to my HTPC. I bought the hard drive on October 19 and it still in a wrapper semi naked with sticker tagged. It’s really pain in the ass when you work with mid tower, you don’t have enough room...

I would like to thank god for giving me the strength to be able to really buy a new system… amen! (LOL) I really do get my self a super new system! New and latest chipsets! Thank god for making my heart pumping over new technology, I just couldn’t help myself. First, I got myself Core 2 Duo processor which is still very new in market with 65nm in...

I just got recover from the flu and was actually sick for more than a week (come and go, and in fact I still don’t feel I am 100% recovering) I feel a bit of headache while writing this post today. The day I wanted to write, I was too sick to write. I bought OEM copy of Vista last month and test it on my old Pentium 4 Prescott(without activating it)....