I have a new mother.. (you gotta read this story)

Needed a new hard disk drive (HDD) as my Barracuda 500GB was maxing out. Sheesh don't ask me what I have inside. Right, so I made a trip down to Sim Lim Square, e place where computer geeks go to.

I went through and compared price-lists from several shops for 5 minutes, yes only 5 because I knew what I wanted. However, I didn't realize what I 'needed' till I was about to make payment.

Both SATA ports of my motherboard were being used. I could've gotten a IDE version but that would be downgrading. Thus, I decided to get a new board. And by saying new, I went for e latest P45 Express chipset.

Then I thought to myself, "Hey might as well get e mobo with a bundled processor". Afterall, I'd doubts that it could support my ancient Pentium 4. Then it started to get to me, I realized it wouldn't for sure support my exisiting graphics card either. Because e standard in this modern day is PCI-Express interface, mine was AGP.

And you thought that was it. RAM was an issue too because DDR-2 wasn't backward compatible. I got impatient. "Look I'm upgrading my system. Just give me something reasonable for a non-gamer. Something future-proof", I said to e sales lady politely (with a smile).

Fair enough, whatever she took was well within my budget which included an operating system, Windows Vista Ultimate (64-bit edition). Plus a power supply unit with higher wattage just to support my new graphics card. What the.. I didn't expect that lol!

Got e Quad-Core chip, which should aid in multi-tasking.


Sweet mother of Jesus, that copper heatsink is uber cool!


XFX GeForece 9600 GT 512mb Zalman. It's friggin' heavy.


4GB memory kit with aluminium fittings to reduce heat. Wow!


Oh I did get my HDD as well lol! Apparently, e term 'GB' is fading. I'm now on TB (terabytes). Gee, what was supposed to be a 5-minute thingy turned out to be a 2-hour shopping spree for a complete desktop. Yikes!