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Showing Original Post only (View all)I really went and did it this time. [View all]
Over the last 3 months I've been slowly gathering the parts and pieces for a new computer. That's just how I do it- I don't BUY 'puters, I BUILD 'em.
Well, I ordered the final part last weekend- a $200 Asus motherboard, and it appeared upon my doorstep yesterday. Since I had already backed everything up in anticipation of the Grand Event, I opened up The Beast last night and stripped its guts out and started building the new one. It took about an hour all told (not bad at all), and before I went to bed I had Windoze (7, not 8. Never 8!) installed and updated. This morning I started restoring all my cool junk and reinstalling all my software, and by noon I was pretty much done with The Project!
Now for the geekspeak: it's an Asus Maximus VI Hero DDR3 2800 LGA 1150 Motherboard with a 4th Generation Intel Core i7 processor. I'm starting it out with 16GB of memory, plus a shiny new 1TB hard drive. (My first computer was a 486/SX with 4 MB of memory, a 240MB hard drive, and it had DOS 6.2 and Windoze 3.1. Two weeks after I bought it I had taken it apart and put it back together just for the hell of it.)
Although it's a gamer's board, I'm not a gamer- I bought it for the speed and flexibility so I could more easily work on my computer art. I simply wanted the latestgreatest, and dammit I GOT it.
Damn, I'm good.