A New Computer? Wut?

So I’m not sure if you’ve seen my tweet 2 days ago. I came home to a new computer. The thing is, my old one was still working, kinda. If you’ve been following my tweets, I’ve mentioned somewhere in the last month that an overheating graphics card was the cause of all the problems I had in the last 2 years. It took 2 freakin’ years for me to figure out the problem. Sigh. Even then, I’m still not very sure if that’s really the problem. I only figured out the problem when my CPU fan starting spinning like there’s no tomorrow. Soooo, a new problem, or not?

The problems stopped immediately once I kept the temperature cool, but the fan never slowed down. Ah heck, who cares.

I never knew I was going to have a new computer, neither did I ask for one.

There it is, my new computer.

Here are the important specifications:
Intel i5-2320 @ 3GHz
12GB RAM
1TB HDD
Nvidia GeForce GT 520

I’m rather disappointed with the graphics card that comes with this. It’s more or less similar in power and speed to my previous card, the GeForce 220. The main improvement is the support for Directx 11.

According to http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html, it’s an decrease from 445 to 341? Why is there a benchmark for GT 220 and GeForce GT 220? Pfft.

Anyway, the processor upgrade is definitely an awesome one. I currently sit at 6043. My previous one, an Intel Core2 Quad Q9400, sits at 3821. So yes, it’s a rather substantial increase. An increase of 5GB RAM to 12GB is indisputably a substantial increase as well. 

I wonder what’s the swappable hard disk bay is about? And I seriously hate the new keyboard that comes with it. They compressed all the keys together, there’s no spacing between F4 and F5, F7 and F8, the arrow keys, the insert/home/delete/end/page up/page down section, and the numpad. ALL the keys are beside another key. So hard to feel what I’m pressing.