Before you get a new PC...

It’s been a week since I bought my new PC, everything goes quite well (touch wood). Even so, there is something I would like to say in my blog. First of all, you should get a brand new and consistent power supply from a manufacturer that you trust in because I saw some power supplies blew up at their homes, getting a good power supply is a good idea and will save you money eventually as they’ve a better circuitry to reserve power, “Active PFC (Power Factor Correction)” is the key word you should search for. It may save your bill up to 30%, a lot of tests have confirmed it. Another issue with new components such as a 200GB hard drive isn’t compatible with old PCs, you’ll be able to use the first 137GB (or 128GB) but not beyond this limit. You’ll have to update your BIOS to support it; “48bit LBA” is the phrase you should know. On the other hand your OS is required to be patched in order to address beyond the 137GB boundary. Currently, WinXP SP2 (Integrated) supports these hard drives out of the box, Win2K has to be SP3 or above as well as modifying your registry by hand. Take a look at here to learn more.

The final thing (a compliant), the bundled AMD cpu fan is crap, it looked so unprofessional and useless, I keep hearing of some crunchy noises from the fan occasionally, I may get a branded one later.

UPDATE: I found out the flawed fan with crunchy noise comes from the Northbridge fan, and it couldn't be removed easily.