I think sometimes we can all be very ignorant with all the technologies rapidly developed around us. We get so used to it that we forgot what it was like before. Well, I at least that’s what happened to me before I decided to dismantle my old PC after upgrading into a new one. It’s quite impressive if you think about it, that such small components can do so much more these days for us, I mean…imagine running photoshop with only 16 colours graphics or 8 MB of RAM… So I decided to take pictures of the prominent components, who knows I’ll need them later (maybe for show and tell to the next generations? hmm…).

Anyway, this is just a quick post to put up my chips shot. These photos are shot using 90mm macro lens and 1 studio light with softbox. All focusing and exposure settings are done manually.

To the right is a graphic card fan and to the left is the macro photo of the components that made up the graphic card. This graphic card is ATI 9500 series, which is outdated but not that old.

This still has 128MB memory, I still remembered the times when I used CGA graphic cards and later on 256K VGA256 color cirrus logic graphic card…and I thought it was stunning with all the colours. Now we have all the glory of 512mb plus graphics!

The other component which I think worth taking picture of was the processor. Such small component that can compute exceptional amount of information.

The picture on the right is the now discontinued Pentium 4 processor. I was fast…years ago…now compared to the new ones its running like a turtle. But that’s what happen all the time, its just because how we got use to the speed. It was the exact same feeling when I changed over from Intel 286 to 486DX2 with 8MB RAM.

Here are more pictures to share:

Alright…end of a kinda geeky post, next post up will be more on photography