Vostro 3700 - Gaming Laptop? - BND$1,499.00

Specs:

- i5 420M

- Windows 7 Home Premium

- LCD Back cover with Camera

- DVD-RW 8x

- 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1333Mhz

- Nvidia GeForce 330M 1GB Ram

- Palmrest with Finger Print Reader

- Wireless Network Card 802.11n

- Dell Wireless 365 Bluetooth Module

- 17.3" High Definition Wide LED Anti-Glare

- 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery

- 90W AC Adapter

- 1 Yr Next Business Day Service

Here, I'm going to show you how big this big guy looks in real.

At the cost of BND$1,499.00 ... and specs like that, it's pretty cool.

Not only the specs is nice, the casing is cool too.

It's an aluminium case oO.

See this picture?

Silver Gray in colour?

That's an aluminium case ...

Metal.

But light ...

Here's an inside view. You can catch a glimps of how big and wide it looks just from this small picture ...

Notice the keyboard? It's a full size keyboard ... with a num keypad on the side. And what luck, we have a keyboard there for you to compare the size. Lol

Here's a closer look at the keyboard.
That's a pretty normal sized keyboard on this laptop.

Has a nice rubberish plastic kind of smooth feel, and a black gloss to it.

Over here on the left side, you can find the power input. You can see we've already plugged a power cord into it already.

You can also see the 3 Video Out choices you can choose from here including an HDMI Out :)

Ok, there also 2 USB slots situated here. Let's keep that in mind :)

Here is the right side.

We've got another 2 USB ports here. That make a total of for USB slots without using an addition hub ... Great ... but thats pretty standard to have even for 14 to 15 inch laptops. Not that we'd need 6 thou. lol.

The optical drive is also here, plus the firewire socket too. And whats that slot above the firewire? Hmm ... I wonder too. PCI Express?

Here's the front side of it.

You can see the WiFi switch is there, Headphone jacks and line ins, the memory card slot can also be found here.

Plus ... power and batter led lights.

MSI R4870 1GB DDR5

Here's some more pics I've found in my old phone.

Its an ATi's HD4870 1GB DDR5.

It was once a powerful yet affordable card back in it's days where 4 series was the latest card from ATi.

Here's the inside of the box.

Pretty empty ... Only addition is just a crossfire link ...

Thought you'd maybe expect some power adapter cable or something for older PSU that doesn't have 6 pin power plugs. Or 2 of them for this card ...

It's a fan type cooler for your eyes to see.

Different from a slot cooler that blows hot air directly out the back of the case thou. Doesn't pose much of a problem if your case is properly ventilated and the hot air is not accumulated in case.

Look at it's killer heatsink fins, around the fan. Looks nice. Extra large it says on the box, and indeed it is. Reminds me of Zalman heatsink on some GPU cards, wonder if this is one? Maybe not ... heh

Well no matter what thou. At this moment, you won't be buying this card anymore as the 5 series cards have been on the market for some time, with performance well surpassing it ... not to mention DX 11 support!! ... not that you can really ...

Thou still powerful, it's obsolete now and scare on the market. You won't find them in shops with busy crowds anymore. All, or most of them have been bought up people when the 5 series cards came out.

You'd probably be able to find some old stocks on some shelfs of some shop somewhere...

Kingston 2GB DDR2 800 Ram (non-kitted)

Shorter than normal? Doesn't make them special thou. haha :p
Just like a half cut :p

Stacks of Optiplex 780 and lots of Keyboard!

Some stacks of Opt 780DT arrive not long ago. Don't really like their looks, but that's what corporate users use. Not the pretty ones ... but the ones that look like drones ... hahaha.

And the keyboard stocks ... pilling? no ... surviving ... :)

CM Storm Force 200 (Red)

This is one hell of a big fan ... 200mm in size.
Not all casing will fit this. Make sure you really have a real tower to put it in.

This one here comes with red led lights, and is perfectly fitted into a HAF 922 case. Hehehe.
Which is exactly where it went after unpacking. ^^

Windows 7 Home Premium (Retail SEA)

Hmm ... what do you think of this?

A stack of Windows Home 7 Premium.

You want one? ^ ^

Gigabyte Superb 720 PSU again!!

I've bought this one before. Not the first time I've seen this. Haven't opened it up yet and it's still packed in a transparent plastic.

It's a cool PSU. enough power to boost many PC specs, thou it's the lowest spec Gigabyte offers for it's range of PSU, but it'll suffice with that amount of power coming from it.

Slight different from the old packaging I can see. There's blue wording right under the name and it's has now added an 80Plus certification logo on the box at the bottom right corner.

Can't wait to open it up and compare it to my past review to see if anything physical has changed!

More pics after I dissect it's box!

[Update]

Sadly, all my pictures is gone via an accidental lost of my camera.

Not much different inside the box thou.
Only different I can find is the exterior on the box =|

CM Elite 310 Casings - Tragedy & Showcase

Here's some tragedy that happened to one of the case that was shipped in.

It's the orange case. The side panel was crushed in. Luckily the parts inside are safe and sound.

It's window side panel cracked. The crews flew out. The solid panel dented and unable to fit to the case anymore. The dents are easy to repair with a few hammerings, but it's pointless now that the window panel is cracked. That needs replacing. More pics later.

The red case is speckle free from damage thou. Just like brand new. Wait ... it IS brand new!!

It comes with a full solid side panel instead thou. Thats about all thats different.

Mighty glossy front. Nice buttons. Nice sexy see thru grills on the bottom edge. Stylish colored side. Yup. See a blue one here. Unboxed by myself. It's got all the plastic stickers still on it like this red piece of case.

Damage side panel of the orange case ...
Screw flew off ...


Dented panel ...


Dent, The window was pushed hard enuf the screws came off ...


Poor panel ...


Content looks great still =) Lucky for my friend. But it still takes a toll on him for denting his case ...



Red Case, Speckle free from damage ...
Yup Looking good. Inside, and side panel, perfectly good.


Back looks mighty fine too :) No prob with this case.


Can't wait to open up my CM690 II Advance! Looking forward to it soon!

Gigabyte G41M-ES2L & EP43-UD3L

Here's an inside shot of the box. The G41M-ES2L board reminds me of it's little brother G31M-ES2L.

The boxing looks similar ... or rather identical?

I remember I brought in a box similar to the white boxed EP43-UD3L before. But don't seem to have written about it thou. Other than the standard equipment you can find on the Green Box, there's only one more thing you can get from the white box. And that is a sticker witht eh word Gigabtye on it. See if you can spot it on the picture ;)

One more thing. The manual is colored ... ahahaa ... ^^;;

New Shipment just unpacked!

Got some new shipments in recently and have just unpacked it today with my friend.

List of items include :
- 2x CM Elite 310 Casing
- 1x Gigabyte Superb 720w PSU
- 2x Gigabyte G41M-ES2L MotherBoard
- 1x Gigabyte EP43-UD3L MotherBoard
- 2x Corsair 2gb DDR2 800 Ram
- 1x CM Extreme 550w PSU
- 2x Intel E5400 Processor
- 1x Intel i5 750 Processor
- 1x WD 500GB HDD
- 1x CM690 II Advance (Not in the picture at all)



My friend is selling some of his set of parts with the following:
- 1x Intel E5400 Processor - BND$120.00
- 1x Gigabyte G41M-ES2L Motherboard - BND$130.00
- 1x WD 500GB HHD - BND$130.00

All the rest of the items are his toys for his brother in laws.

Revisited : Dim Sum (Gadong)

The Appetiser. Look at it. Compare it with a shot i have back in the past. See the difference? Link : appetiser.

They replaced it with peanuts instead of grounded nuts like the one in the past. It's also drier now. Lost it's soury juicy taste that i savoured last time. Wait. I think it lost some chillies too. Should be some if I din't recall wrongly.

Losing all it's pros has turned this into a fail. Cuz it's now tasteless and rediculous compared to the past and it cost 2 bucks for it ... take that to heart people ...

But don't abandon all hope yet thou. It's already been quite some time when I tested this out. Mabe they'll come to light and renew the appetiser to it's former glory?

The Fried Carrot Cake - Don't think i've tried it before here. Not really wanting to comment on it as i didn't really impress me at all.

Only one thing took to light is the taste of the carrot cake. It's too strong. They need to tone down the carrot cake and emphasize more on the frying, egg, tauge and sause used instead. the carrot cake has awe so awfully covered all the taste up already.

Siew Mai - I honestly could not remember anything about eating this at all ... I wonder how'd it go?

Har Kaw & Char Siew Bun - The pictures looks yummy already. I remember Har Kow still being quite the same as Har Kaw & Har Kaw with the skin having it's own unique taste of shrimp and it's fresh prawn/shrimp. Actually, it's pretty standard for proper Har Kaw, but this is in brunei now, and that makes a difference.

The Bun is another story. It doesn't look yummy either. I remember it's not steaming juicy inside when I ate it. I like my meat buns to be sweat, salty, juicy and steaming with glory! Especially when you peel it open to reveals it's glorious red oozing out of the white steam buns!