Sometime ago, my aging 4 year old laptop died. After sitting around for a month, not knowing what to do every night, I finally borrowed some money to buy a new desktop. What.... I have just started working, so I don't have that kind of cash.

After several attempts to stay on budget, I ended up with this specifications:

Intel E6750 Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz
Gigabyte P35-DS3P FSB 1333
Asus EN8600GTS 256MB
Kingston 2GB DDR2-800 Hyper X
Samsung SATA-2 Lightscribe
Seagate 500GB Sata2 Hard Disk
Coolermaster 550W Extreme Power
Coolermaster Centurion 5 Casing
Philips 19" Wide-screen LCD 190CW

Guess how much does this cost? After adding up everything including some planned upgrades/add-ons, I think it is going to cost around SG$2.2k just for the bare metal. Wee~

But I can't get my hands on an 8800GTS graphics card.... Oh well...

Of course, I'm installing Gentoo and Windows XP on the system.

Hmm.... Maybe I should put the installation troubles in another post. Stay tuned.