Reveal

I’m feeling better now. My cold fever is decreasing slowly day by day. This is my second time experienced fever in here. The temperature is dropping day by day as a warning it is nearly winter now. If you ask me, I’d rather be in Malaysia or hotter temperature country until winter season is finished, then I’ll come back. Not saying I can’t stand cold weather. Just that, it feels uncomfortable. I remember long long time ago, I used to watch snow on television and I always said to myself – “How I wish I could be there with thick clothes playing snow”. And now I’m here moaning about the temperature and waiting for winter to come. Sometimes, life can be so miracle.

Anyway, back to the real topic. Today, I’m going to reveal what has been going over the last weekend. It is something that I have been waiting for so long. I finally bought my new PC!!! Yes, I made it. Never thought in my mind I would have a PC again since I left mine at home back in Malaysia. To tell you the truth, it is always satisfied when you have options of which components you desire to build your PC. Not by just going to the computer shop and pick one home. It is totally different. That is what I did. If you don’t believe me, go to the computer store, look at the price and the PC specifications. It is way too expensive I reckon. Sometimes, it is not because of the specifications itself. It’s the brand that makes it expensive. With the same amount of money, you can get better one by building it up yourself with certainly better specs and performance.

No doubt, some people will moan, saying that it is a lot easier to pick ready one, bring it home and you are done. What about people who always desire for high performance PC? Of course these people won’t look at it even though some might offer good deal. These people are defenitely going to go for their own choices, components, specifications etc. And not to forget here, it is depending on someone needs as well. If you just use the PC for internet surfing and a little Words and Excel, why do you need high performance PC? Don’t you think it such a waste? I say, it depends on where you set the priority. If you are a web developer, gamer, graphic designer or whatsoever that need high specs PC, then you might want to consider buying something more powerful than ordinary people normally use.

As for me, my priority is more towards photo editing and also a bit of web development. Hence, I would want to consider a PC with great graphic performance to be able to get my job done. Therefore, I’ll reveal here my inner components where all of them were bought online. Only graphic card I bought at a PC Fair because I just realized when they delivered the stuff, the video card was not on the list which mean I must have missed it when I did the shopping.

This is how it looks like from top view inside my box. As you can see there are a few items come without boxes. They are OEM version.

My 2GB memory. Look, they’ve got heatsink! LOL. Long time ago, it was just a dream to get a pair of Corsair 2GB memory. Now, it’s in my PC!

The ultra quiet CPU fan, Zalman. It is absolutely amazing. I can hear nothing but air sound from this cooler fan. Fantastic. Worth buying.

The not so quiet PSU. It is a bit noisier I reckon. But it doesn’t hurt my ears anyway. So, I forgive him. He’s the only one making sound. Others remain silent!

Hulala look at that! My 22″ LCD widescreen monitor! Although I’ve never heard about this brand Cibox, it is a great monitor and I’m loving it. The cheapest one I found on ebuyer for this size. So, I guess I was quite lucky. It has built-in speakers too but you’ll be disappointed with the sound. But at least you can still listen to the music though rather than nothing.

I just realized during working on my PC, I forgot one thing and it was graphic card! I was so frustrated in the beginning. Thought I couldn’t finish it by that day. Luckily, my brother said there’s a PC fair not far from our place. So, there’s a chance for me to go there and have a look if there’s any suitable graphic card within my budget. Glad I found one and it’s 512MB DDR2. The ASUS family. My mobo and graphic card. Surely unbeatable! LOL.

The CPU has been attached successfully to the motherboard.

And afterwards, it’s Zalman’s turn to get onto the CPU. Go Zalman go. You rock my world. What a size!!!

Messy bedroom. I wonder how am I going to tidy up this mess.

My fantastic graphic card before attached to motherboard. It has heatsink as well! LOL.

Walla! It is finally done. This is a first test-run after completely assembled every single piece of the components.

The casing isn’t bad at all I reckon. Don’t you think so? I know it isn’t wow but I like to keep it simple and clean look.

Phew, after a long wait, finally I got my PC. It was not in my mind at all to build a PC. I thought I was going to buy ready PC but those ready-made never satisfy me and they don’t fit my desire. Anyway, I’d love to thank my brother so much for helping me out on configuring, fixing, assembling, updating etc. my PC till the end of it. I love my PC so much now. It is a great PC. It works two three times faster than my PC (in Malaysia). Perhaps, I should get sound card and speakers later

Love,

Faris