Happiness that comes in a box

Finally, I've got my graphic card upgrade, and perhaps the last upgrade for this computer of mine. And the card I've gotten is a very capable card, bringing new porcessing power to my computer to handle the latest games the way it's meant to be played. And yes, the experience of running this card is priceless. Whoever says happiness can't be bought...ok, not the ultimate happiness, but duh, more on that later.

Here are some shots of it, if anyone's interested.


My old card, ATi Radeon 9600 Pro LE, it had serves me well all this while.

And the card that I've gotten was a Galaxy Glacier 6800 (GeForce 6800)


A great happiness that comes in a simple, unattractive box. Don't judge a hardware by its packaging


It's a long card, being cooled by Artic's Glacier GPU Cooler. Note that all RAM chip are being cooled as well.


Bundled stuff. Nothing remarkable, just a copy of an original game, Nascar 2004.

It's been a week since, and I've completed FarCry and now playing through Half Life 2 game, just to test if there's any defect. But so far it's all good after so much tweaking and stuff. Finally, phew.

Now this is a very enjoyable experience, for me of course. Not everyone has the capabilities of enjoying such stuff. You've gotta be a gaming geek and graphic whore to enjoy it. It's been very entertaining, and I'd say its worth every buck i splash out on it. Real life happiness can't be bought with money, it comes easy for some, and hard for the rest. Some might not even make the break in it. But there are certain type of happiness that can be bought, and this happiness comes from the satisfaction of owning something we wanted all along, something that can be bought with money.

That's life, there's always a compromise. Good thing don't come easy, and things that comes easy aren't always the best.

Enjoy your pixel.