The Calm Before The Storm

Well, exams are over, and, as expected, I barely scrapped through as always, but despite my inner kiasu, I’m content for the fact that the marks are proportional (or even slightly inflated) for the effort I put in, so there’s no complaining there.

I was saving a few things to do after my exam, and now I’ve the time to do them. These include, but aren’t limited to;
- Watching Muthi
- Watching Baasha
- Set Up New Rig
- Spend days tweaking and overclocking New Rig
- Fry New Chip

Yesterday, MOST of my new hardware has arrived. DHL and I were fighting a constant battle of F5(refresh) of the browser with the Russian customs continuously delaying my shipment due to a backlog of parcels in their office thanks to the recent long holiday we had (orthordox christmas, new year, etc etc).

Before I get all excited and move on towards building my new rig, I figured it was only right if I gave my previous rig her proper tribute, before I move on to my younger, much slender baby.

My Baby’s Coffin

Rotting Corpse, Collecting Dust

Salvaged 250GB Hard Disk

Salvaged 500 GB Hard Disk

Salvaged BFG 9800 GTX+

The Opteron 170 with remnants of  Thermal Grease

Socket 939, AMD’s Prime Days

Sentimental Reasons Why I buy AMD; Assembled in Malaysia

DFI LP UT NF4 SLI-DR-Expert – Best Socket 939 Motherboard Made

Back Shot of the PCB

4GB of Corsair DDR Ram

Good bye baby, you will be sorely missed!

Hopefully my Artic Silver 5(Thermal Grease) will arrive in the next few days, I’m awaiting for the stupid parcel slip from the post office so that I may go collect it. Alas, God knows how long it may actually take.

Tomorrow, I plan to put up everything that arrived with DHL yesterday, so stay tuned.

~ by hypoglossal on January 24, 2009.