The world is tumbling down, Malaysia has something rare and awesome! Woo hoo!
As well as a Sun Enterprise 250, but let’s leave that alone because he won’t sell that. If my Tualatin is fried, I’ll get another one for RM60.
I’ve reserved it. I gotta bring the $ tomorrow. Woohoo!

I got a free Celeron D, courtesy of Allan in Canada. I had lots of plans for it. The current system I was using was a:
Coppermine Celeron@675MHz (75MHz FSB) with generic slocket
320MB SDRAM at 75MHz
Asus P2B-F (440BX)
Transcend Radeon 7000 32MB
ESS 1938 Solo-1
Generic 3Com Fast Ethernet card
40GB Maxtor
Now the plans:
Celeron D 3.066GHz (S478)
512MB DDR2-667 (cheap as [...]

That’s strikingly familiar. What in the world is going on with Celframe Studio anyway?

So I wondered just how awesome of a computer I could get in Europe, given their strong currency and all that. I found this Newegg-like website called alternate.nl.
So far I have:
Pentium E2180 - 59 Euros (hoping to OC this to something astronomical)
ATi Radeon HD 4870 - 219 Euros (not strong enough to push the number [...]

nVidia says, in order to maintain competitiveness and shit, it will introduce this UMAP policy which basically dictates a minimum price for the cards based on their graphic chips, and require extra effort on the consumer’s part to find out that they (and the board manufacturers) have been screwed over.
What HardOCP said about it.
Now I [...]