Seraph Chronicles

Core 2 has landed

Core 2 has landed!! Ya it’s old news, the damn thing was launced like two months ago, but well for me it has just landed, straight from US to the shores of Penang, Malaysia. This is the first time I bought something off the internet, and it ain’t some small and cheap accessory, luckily it arrived in one piece, haha call me paranoid but I think it’s normal for first time online purchasers. The packaging of the Core 2 Duo is just gorgeous, nice metal textured box makes the whole package looks high tech and stylish. Now that the brain of the computer has arrived, I can start hunting for the rest of the body to house this baby.

Ah yes let’s not forget this baby as well, the graphics card, got this baby from US of A as well, last I checked no local vendors are carrying it yet, though it’s not the top of the line card but I’m pretty much happy with it. In fact this is even more expensive than the brain of my new rig, scary ain’t it, and the packaging to my opinion is not as classy as the cheaper priced ‘brain’ either. For a 2k+ graphics card you’d expect some cool games or accessories to come together with it right? Sad to say though that workstation class cards only give you what’s necessary to start working on it, and thus this big box only contains the drivers CD, two dvi converters and the card itself, even the manual is not printed out for you! Talk about a rip off, hope the performance lives up to the price they charge. We’ll just have to see how it pairs up with Intel’s latest processor.

Getting anxious to getting my new rig up and running, and the price of ram just had to rise at this time, talk about bad luck. Should I wait for prices to drop and for my components to age or should I just shell out the few hundred bucks to get it up running as soon as possible? Then there’s the issue of motherboards, which brand and model should I get, currently have two boards in mind, but still considering which to get between the Asus P5B Deluxe or the Gigabyte DQ6. I’m leaning more towards the Gigabyte board though, but I’ve never used a Gigabyte board before, which brings about the insecurity of it’s quality over Asus which I’ve been using for my past two rigs without a problem, and they’re still running nicely. Anyhow, here’s the stuff I’ve got so far, just the ‘brain’ and the ‘eye’(can the graphics card be considered as the eye of the computer or should that be the monitor?) and the rest hoping to get by next week, hope they have stocks.