My home computer died last
My home computer died last night. Poof! No booteh... no naahsing. I have needed a new PC from some time now. Mine was held together with duct tape and those little twist ties that come on bread bags. I used to play the hell out of some Q3A, RA3, and TA... but ever since I started having spurious reboots and hangs, it was nonfunctional for anything but my financial software. Which brings me to the conundrum I am in this morning. I have a million bills to pay and a checkbook to balance and stupid-ass me didn't back up anything to floppy or CD... it's all on drive partitions that are currently residing in a dead hunk-o-shite paperweight that used to be my humming tower of crazy rail shots and rocket jumps many many moons ago. I thought about ordering a Dell, but Dell and I hate each other right now (it's a long story). I considered going to Fry's or someplace local and picking up a peecee on the cash and carry program, but that is not financially feasible for me right now (another long story... let's just say being a landlord sucks sometimes). I suppose I'll live off my laptop for a while until I can get some moolah for a new system. Another stress in my life right now is work. Work has been tres suck recently and I am buried. The new responsibility I eluded to before is coming down on me like an avalanche and I honestly and struggling for the first time in a long time with technical issues. I need some serious cram time. EL is going to be in town to visit day after tomorrow and I still am not done with the house. I have been working long hours and by the time I get home and go eat, I am tired and just want to sleep. I've been to bed early every night since I've been back... and when I say early, I don't mean the midnight or so that early used to imply... I mean nine or ten o'clock kinda early. I could stay up and do all the shit that I need to do, but I'm like chingalo and just sleep instead. I just want to sleep because the next day comes faster and she'll be here sooner... relatively speaking. I can't wait until Friday. This is EL's first visit to Houston and really only her second time in Texas. I need to get back to the grind here at the office. I am really busy.
Spend the extra and get someone to build you a system… They’re a godsend. If something flakes out on you, all you have to do is replace it. No proprietary hardware, no warranty issues, just sweet upgradability.
I totally agree. Nothing like a well-running, homemade machine to play with. It’s like buttah.
Most of your components could be repo’d over into a new “bare bones” system, save the RAM, depending on what you got. I was at Frys this last weekend and saw that they had Shuttle-X bare bones systems for not a lot of bread. I forget if the proc came with it, but for less than $300 you’d have a nice new case and mobo (micro-ATX, one of those new “media PC” designs, really cute) that you could move your drive, GeForce and SoundBlaster over into it. We’re talking less than an hour of work.
It MIGHT even come with the P4 installed and it has its own, fairly interesting, heatpipe based cooling. Most likely your AMD style DIMMs won’t work so you could get a cheap stick-o-RAM just to get the sucker running and deal with tricking it out later.
Most any ATX barebones system, or OEM system, for anywhere near this amount of cash outlay will be complete garbage by comparison. And, hopefully, you never resort to OEM (at least the likes of Dell, Gateway, HP or Compaq,etc.) PC buying.
Just a thought.
*woooooooosssh*.....the sound of Seanie’s comment flying far over my head.....
LOL, I just read over it and...yeah, you caught me in some geeklish. C can still get the same “huh?” out of me when he goes into all his router/switch lingo.
Ask him about his “rooters” at work sometime, just for fun, hah-hah.
This is the machine for you.
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