laptop's dead--time to get a 4000$ computer.
so my laptop's been on its' "last legs" for a good while. finally, last night, the inner part of the power socket snapped off in the power plug. damn. didn't even get the chance to move private data off before i throw it to best buy's warantee people. a friend might be able to help with an external laptop harddrive adapter hopefully.
i'd seen this coming for a long time, the old girl'd gone through a lot and needed some physical repairs, but i knew best buy'll take a month+ to do what they do. so i started shopping for a new tower to replace my home computer. i'm spending too much, i could get it at 3k$ if i did it all myself, and though retail it'd be 5k$, i'm paying 4k$ to have a local computer shop put it together. i'd let my knowledge of the latest internals slip over the last few years, and didn't want to spend a month researching before i did this, so i'm paying for someone else's expertise.
I buy for the angle of trying to stay as close to top of the line for as long as possible. i do that by starting with the motherboard. get a QUALITY motherboard; i like ASUS. i get the latest chipset (in this case: 955x) and the cheapest chip that works on it (ITC: p4 2.7ghz - 150$). then years from now when the best chip (ITC: 3.7ghz dual core - 1.6k$) gets cheap, i jump on that. i'm getting 2gig of ram and a geforce 6800 ultra (second to latest vidcard for that manufac.) for gaming, which is a card that'll later let me add a second card and have them work together (sli). i read some real glowing reviews of hitachi 500gb SATA2 drives, so i got two. i'm grabbing a dual-layer dvd burner too, for later console gaming needs.. a good soundcard and speakers because in my small apartment it's gonna end up as the audio-hub for the tv et al. so all that, plus i'm buying a special liquid-cooled case and all the fixins for the cpu, gpu, & the 2 harddrives. then i'm having them overclock it for me (i'll be there) again, because my knowlege is a little old.
i use my 55" HDTV as my server's monitor, so i need to replace my broken wireless keyboard, but after that, i'm gonna enjoy some damn fine half-life2'ing!
when done, it should look something like this:
then, i beleive, i can wait patiently to get my laptop back ^_-
i'd seen this coming for a long time, the old girl'd gone through a lot and needed some physical repairs, but i knew best buy'll take a month+ to do what they do. so i started shopping for a new tower to replace my home computer. i'm spending too much, i could get it at 3k$ if i did it all myself, and though retail it'd be 5k$, i'm paying 4k$ to have a local computer shop put it together. i'd let my knowledge of the latest internals slip over the last few years, and didn't want to spend a month researching before i did this, so i'm paying for someone else's expertise.
I buy for the angle of trying to stay as close to top of the line for as long as possible. i do that by starting with the motherboard. get a QUALITY motherboard; i like ASUS. i get the latest chipset (in this case: 955x) and the cheapest chip that works on it (ITC: p4 2.7ghz - 150$). then years from now when the best chip (ITC: 3.7ghz dual core - 1.6k$) gets cheap, i jump on that. i'm getting 2gig of ram and a geforce 6800 ultra (second to latest vidcard for that manufac.) for gaming, which is a card that'll later let me add a second card and have them work together (sli). i read some real glowing reviews of hitachi 500gb SATA2 drives, so i got two. i'm grabbing a dual-layer dvd burner too, for later console gaming needs.. a good soundcard and speakers because in my small apartment it's gonna end up as the audio-hub for the tv et al. so all that, plus i'm buying a special liquid-cooled case and all the fixins for the cpu, gpu, & the 2 harddrives. then i'm having them overclock it for me (i'll be there) again, because my knowlege is a little old.
i use my 55" HDTV as my server's monitor, so i need to replace my broken wireless keyboard, but after that, i'm gonna enjoy some damn fine half-life2'ing!
when done, it should look something like this:
then, i beleive, i can wait patiently to get my laptop back ^_-
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