So I immediately begin my journey. My whole Saturday saw me wondering from place to place in search for good (not forget to mention, cheap) ingredients. It's freaking exhausting and I crossed my finger hoping everything won't fall into the drain.

But first, meet my current PC setup. Based on ECS 6100PM V2 motherboard and powered by AM2+ Sempron 1150LE, its far from being a beast I dreamt of.

Now meet the Replacement.

From left – 80mm & 120mm CoolerMaster case fan, CoolerMaster thermal paste, Asus EAH3650 512MB DDR2 and last but not least, AMD X2 5200+ 2.7Ghz

.. and the Galactic Pounder.

It is not recommended to assemble your PC while eating. Please, don't try this at home.

It took me 30 minutes to de-assemble and assemble everything and thank god, I'm not greeted by motherboard's error beeps. So how does it fare?

The Processor

For a mere RM90+, I am able to double my PC performance. Looking at the chart, each test shows that my new CPU achieves more than 200% gain on average. Not bad I said to myself. Huge decrease in video encoding time will ensure smooth movie viewing hereafter.

The Graphic Card

This is the catalyst of my first Replacement. It's a monster compared to my puny on-board graphic chipset. Just look at how much difference it made to my PC graphic related function. RM180 will never felt this well-spent. I haven't had time to test on real game yet but this should be sufficed for the time being.

The Conclusion

This is over awesome. Result on graphic card might be misleading for my onboard graphic chip is nothing to yell about. All in all, I felt good. I can't wait for next weekend when I will have time to tinker all its bell and whistle. If only we didn't have to work XD