- Location
- REDLANDS, CA. (SoCal)
After seven years the Dell finally kicked the bucket. As near as I could tell it was the motherboard or the processor. After shopping around a bit I discovered that new computers are a bit on the pricey side. Err, for what I wanted anyway. So much for plan A. Plan B on the other hand came with lots of parts, 6 ½ miles or wires and brain numbing volumes of instructions.
Shiny!!! The MB in the Dell sure didn’t look like this. Shiny is always better; think about it; which is better, a floppy of a CD? It makes perfect sense to me.
Have to have a brain. The thing looks wild in Task Manager with four graphs going.
Every Brain should have a propeller on its hat to keep it cool.
Plenty of memory was a must.
This should keep the gamer in the family happy; a little overkill for “WOW” in my opinion. Ethan says it’s an improvement.
The obligatory floppy and DVD drives. The cabinet has slick trays for holding hard drives. I don’t think I’ll ever use all six bays, though. Currently I have 1.4 Tb installed.
The power supply and all of it's cables, less than half of the wiring. I’m still cross-eyed.
The finished product and primary (happy) beneficiary; he did help though.
All in all, the whole project went smoothly and everything worked as it was supposed to when I powered it up and loaded the drivers. That was a pleasant surprise. All of the components came with instructions that were reasonably clear. The best were for the motherboard and the worse were for the CPU cooler. Now that I can web wheel again I need to get up off of my butt and work on the Jeeps. Hehehehe, yeah right.
Shiny!!! The MB in the Dell sure didn’t look like this. Shiny is always better; think about it; which is better, a floppy of a CD? It makes perfect sense to me.
Have to have a brain. The thing looks wild in Task Manager with four graphs going.
Every Brain should have a propeller on its hat to keep it cool.
Plenty of memory was a must.
This should keep the gamer in the family happy; a little overkill for “WOW” in my opinion. Ethan says it’s an improvement.
The obligatory floppy and DVD drives. The cabinet has slick trays for holding hard drives. I don’t think I’ll ever use all six bays, though. Currently I have 1.4 Tb installed.
The power supply and all of it's cables, less than half of the wiring. I’m still cross-eyed.
The finished product and primary (happy) beneficiary; he did help though.
All in all, the whole project went smoothly and everything worked as it was supposed to when I powered it up and loaded the drivers. That was a pleasant surprise. All of the components came with instructions that were reasonably clear. The best were for the motherboard and the worse were for the CPU cooler. Now that I can web wheel again I need to get up off of my butt and work on the Jeeps. Hehehehe, yeah right.
