Month-long Home PC Hiatus

After a month of hdd file recovery, I'm finally back! About a month ago, it was quite a nerve-wrack hoping what would seem to be an unfathomable 130GB loss of personal files be recovered. Anyway, thankfully, thru the help of an officemate of mine and his trusty Paragon Partition Manager, he was able to temporarily ease the moaning of a dying Seagate 160GB hard disk.

Symptoms or not... it seems that the PC upgrade which I had projected to be two years from now would seem like a six month-long project. With an AGP aging His Excalibur ATI 9600 VIVO and a 1GB DDR, it just won't seem to fit in to the multiple core technology and hardware changing bandwagon. While I'm up to the challenge of exerting countless hours of researching for cheaper priced low to mid-end range of CPUs, I'm also quite heavily up to the challenge with a very tight budget as my gadgets also need their own upgrade.