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Last week when I was mid-way processing my Live and Loud pictures...my chair broke, shortly after that my computer started freaking out - just what I needed right?

I thought the graphics card might be corrupt as the screen kept freaking out and it kept disappearing to the computer, but it only happened when I plugged in an extra PATA drive (I wanted to copy some stuff over from the old PC).

It went weird all the way from the POST/BIOS to the OS, Windows would load fine, but you couldn't really see anything. So I suspected it might be my ancient PSU, it's a 420W Hiper unit...plenty of power back in the day of 1ghz processors and graphics cards with 32mb RAM.

But I started to suspect it couldn't deliver enough juice for a Core 2 Duo processor, a hungry graphics card, 3 SATA hard disks and 3GB of DDR2 RAM...I headed over to Digital Mall this weekend to pick a new one, I ended up with the Cooler Master Real Power Pro 650W PSU.

Great reviews all around and rated up to 780W with a constant delivery of 650W, sounds good enough for my rig and more (it's rated for SLI graphics cards).

Taking the old one out was a bit of a headache with so many cables, connectors and bits tied here and there...a bit like a giant plate of wire spaghetti.

I managed to get the new sexy black PSU in, all plugged in and working in a relatively short amount of time! Nice mesh on the cables too, looks pretty neat now.

Ok so thankfully it turned out it was the power supply problem, everything is good now, I put the old PATA HDD in to copy some stuff and it was fine, stable - great even! Phew that's one less thing to worry about....but some more money spent that I don't have *sigh*.

And my chair arrived, just have to clean out the junkyard enough to fit it in..

Operation clean-up soon!

Well as you've already read, my chair unfortunately broke in the middle of my Live and Loud processing spree...

I've got a bunch of other stuff to update about too, grr!

Anyway I'm back in the office so here's a quick update (was in Malacca yesterday).

I noticed a while back A M-Office Group was having an end of year sale (Up to 45% off), I was thinking about upgrading my chair anyway seen as though I spend so much time sitting on it.

We spend a fortune on phones, shoes...clothes and food (for me) so I thought why not spend a bit on my back and get a decent chair.

I'm not getting any younger, so my chair braking forced my hand and off I went to Plaza Perabot LDP (AM Office is there on the first floor).

They sell a lot of models of office chairs so I knew I'd have a good selection to choose from, the Raynor ErgoHuman Mesh Chair did pass through my mind too - but I thought it was rather expensive and outside of my budget (capped at RM1500 for sanity sake).

You know - the one Boss Stewie was dreaming of owning..

And the one that Yong Fook bought.

I tried out a few chairs, not had a high enough back to support my head..or were comfortable.

So the chap pointed out the Ergohuman, proudly displayed at the front...so I tried it out - orgasmically comfortable it was.

So I checked the price....and it was inside my budget with 30% discount from the original price of RM1788 it came in at about RM1295 (the leather version around RM1550).

I tried both the leather and the mesh version, but thought the mesh version would be better as I don't use air con at home so with leather my ballsack might stick to the chair...which would be bad.

It's adjustable in about every direction and caters up to my size (6'5" is their recommended max), so the headrest fits perfectly and it definitely has the best lumbar support of any chair I've tried - you can see here:

So now I'm just waiting - it'll arrive on Monday or Tuesday.