So, at this junction in time all I'm working with is a laptop. I use it for everything: facebook, flash-based video games, e-mail, school work including on-line classes (discussions, blogs, exams), paying bills, photoshop not to mention a photo album, a jukebox, movies and tv. In the last two days I've encountered problems showing the age and use out of my machine.
My screen saver goes back and forth between my programed "goodmorning" (in remembrance of a late co-worker) and "the screen saver can't run because it requires a newer video card or one compatible with Direct3D" My monitor has just stopped working. My system has frozen. Anyways, I was able to somehow get it up and going long enough to do a system restore and things seem to be working fine, but as I was saying before I use it for everything, and can't really afford for it to go to Silicon Heaven until I have a back up system that's mine.
I was really hoping to wait a bit before buying everything, give things some time for prices to come down, and just to double check things about ten more times before making any decisions. Well, I don't know if my laptop has time so I placed my order this morning. Now I may have mentioned this in a previous post, I know I groaned about it on facebook, but the original case and motherboard I had picked out had gone out of stock. I picked back ups, and even though my original picks just came back in stock within the last 48 hours, I've gotten attached to the back ups. So here's what I purchased today... so far:
COOLER MASTER HAF X RC-942-KKN1 Black Steel/ Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case
GIGABYTE GA-P67A-UD4-B3 LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
ENERMAX PRO82+ II EPR525AWT_II 525W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply
Intel Core i5-2500 Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80623I52500
Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EARS 1TB 5400 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
HIS H467QR1GH Radeon HD 4670 1GB 128-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
There is no turning back, the parts are on their way. I hope this is the start of something very beautiful.
There are a few pieces missing. I'll be getting 8GB (2x4GB) of DDR3 SDRAM (to start) and Windows 7 Professional as my Operating System. I'm going with inexpensive speakers and a keyboard from logitech to save money because I'm more worried about picture quality then sound quality. Plus, it will be a nice upgrade in the future when I don't have to buy out of necessity. I've been looking at monitors at Best Buy and Office Depto, a decision I'll be making in the next week or so.
Looking forward to getting mail that's not a grocery flier or a credit card application.
