Motherboard delivered @ around 12:20PM while I was napping and as soon as I got it, I went to town with it! First PC ever built, hooked up everything, fired it up... ALL IS GOOD!
Work time, I'll update next post and mention all the parts.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Disappointment!
Update on the new PC.
So I've received 8/9 of the parts that I've ordered from newegg.ca. 3 separate deliveries, 3 separate locations. Got the first package containing the case and PSU, CPU and OS on Monday. Second package came in Tuesday containing GPU, HDD, RAM and free Shogun 2 game. Now I'm just missing the motherboard which is the most important part, because it's where everything is connected. It's like the body of the PC. It would've been awesome if the last part was like the OS or the ram, I mean... it could've been ANYTHING. ANYTHING AT ALL! But NO! It has to be the motherboard. So, it seems it's not coming at all until Monday. Yeah, that blows.
I was really hoping I could assemble it during my day off. But no. If it was like the PSU or whatever... except the case, I could've assembled some of them and just attached the missing part on Monday. Unfortunately, things just doesn't go the way you want them to be. I have to amuse myself with some other form of entertainment during this weekend. Friday is a holiday but I'm most likely working anyway.
I can't really gather all my thoughts because of how bummed out I feel right now. It sucks, but ya know. Just life. I'm thinking though, since I've waited THIS freakin long for all the parts. I am hoping that there will be no more disappointments once it gets here and everything turns out well. I don't know what I just typed right there but whatever, I hope it made sense. I need sleep.
I'll update again... soon. Hopefully something good.
So I've received 8/9 of the parts that I've ordered from newegg.ca. 3 separate deliveries, 3 separate locations. Got the first package containing the case and PSU, CPU and OS on Monday. Second package came in Tuesday containing GPU, HDD, RAM and free Shogun 2 game. Now I'm just missing the motherboard which is the most important part, because it's where everything is connected. It's like the body of the PC. It would've been awesome if the last part was like the OS or the ram, I mean... it could've been ANYTHING. ANYTHING AT ALL! But NO! It has to be the motherboard. So, it seems it's not coming at all until Monday. Yeah, that blows.
I was really hoping I could assemble it during my day off. But no. If it was like the PSU or whatever... except the case, I could've assembled some of them and just attached the missing part on Monday. Unfortunately, things just doesn't go the way you want them to be. I have to amuse myself with some other form of entertainment during this weekend. Friday is a holiday but I'm most likely working anyway.
I can't really gather all my thoughts because of how bummed out I feel right now. It sucks, but ya know. Just life. I'm thinking though, since I've waited THIS freakin long for all the parts. I am hoping that there will be no more disappointments once it gets here and everything turns out well. I don't know what I just typed right there but whatever, I hope it made sense. I need sleep.
I'll update again... soon. Hopefully something good.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Brand New PC! - First Custom Build PC
Just ordered PC parts to build myself a powerhouse a couple of days ago. Was just shipped this morning. I'm so excited! Never built a PC before but I've always wanted to. I hope everything turns out good. And nothing is DOA (dead on arival) because that would suck bad! And very frustrating!
I'll list my hardware when they all get here. Its not an over the top PC but definitely pretty good. Cost me a little less than $1200. My budget was $1000 and I reached it. Except when the taxes and shipping kicked in... BAM!
One thing to list, CPU is i7 2600K, and... might as well list the GPU: Sapphire Radeon 6870. I didn't get a SLI ready motherboard because I don't need to SLI. In the future, I'll just get another single GPU for upgrade... which hopefully won't be too soon. Hoping this lasts 2-5 years!
I'm out!!! ZzzzzZZZZzzz...
I'll list my hardware when they all get here. Its not an over the top PC but definitely pretty good. Cost me a little less than $1200. My budget was $1000 and I reached it. Except when the taxes and shipping kicked in... BAM!
One thing to list, CPU is i7 2600K, and... might as well list the GPU: Sapphire Radeon 6870. I didn't get a SLI ready motherboard because I don't need to SLI. In the future, I'll just get another single GPU for upgrade... which hopefully won't be too soon. Hoping this lasts 2-5 years!
I'm out!!! ZzzzzZZZZzzz...
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Laptop Reformat — Just like new...
"We owe you for that."
"Just like new..."
"Drop your weapon!"
Matrix... yeah anyway. Reformatted my HP Laptop and brought it back to factory settings. Had to delete crap from it again like before. That's also the last time I'm buying HP Laptop. I'll go Asus next time. Only reason I bought that is because I didn't have money to pay it in full so I used Best Buy X months to pay thinger-majigger.
If it's a laptop, Asus from Newegg, Tigerdirect, or NCIX. But I really want a power house custom PC for my next one. This laptop can play good games but the problem is overheating. Sucks.
Reason for reformatting is... I don't know. Paranoid that something is in my PC lurking around? I also bought Sandboxie to keep it clean. Hopefully I won't need to reformat for a few years.
"Just like new..."
"Drop your weapon!"
Matrix... yeah anyway. Reformatted my HP Laptop and brought it back to factory settings. Had to delete crap from it again like before. That's also the last time I'm buying HP Laptop. I'll go Asus next time. Only reason I bought that is because I didn't have money to pay it in full so I used Best Buy X months to pay thinger-majigger.
If it's a laptop, Asus from Newegg, Tigerdirect, or NCIX. But I really want a power house custom PC for my next one. This laptop can play good games but the problem is overheating. Sucks.
Reason for reformatting is... I don't know. Paranoid that something is in my PC lurking around? I also bought Sandboxie to keep it clean. Hopefully I won't need to reformat for a few years.
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