Well, what a week.
My friend bought a new computer for himself, and asked me to build it for him. Neither of us knew too much about computers, so we pooled our knowledge together and pulled it off, learning quite a bit in the process. For those of you who are into this kind of thing, its specifications are as follows:
Power: Corsair TX 650W
CPU: Intel Core i7 920, 2.67 GHz
RAM: 4 gb DDR3
GPU: ATi Radeon HD 5770
Storage: Seagate SATA 500 Gb
Case: Antec Nine Hundred
OS: Windows 7 Home, 64-bit
It’s an incredible setup. Really. It boots in a bit under 25 seconds, shuts down in a bit under 15. The fans are a bit loud, but that’s because there are five of them.
Anyway, what happened was that his house was hit by a power surge which blew a fuse in the old power supply that was in before the Corsair. We lugged it over to the store where he bought it and managed to refund the old one because the warranty covers this kind of thing. After buying the new power supply, he let me keep it at my place. He didn’t seem too happy about the whole thing; he was very enthusiastic about ordering the parts, but when they arrived he seemed kind of deflated as if they weren’t what he had in mind. However, he had the heart to carry on with the building with me, just because I was very excited about building it.
I don’t know how long the computer will be at my place, but it’s got all my peripherals plugged into it and I’m really beginning to like it. Maybe he’ll sell it to me for cheap, I’m hoping. Besides, he’s got his eye on an even more intense one, with more grunt than I’ll ever need for probably the next decade. I think it looks pretty ugly, but it sort of suits him and his Transformer fantasy. They’d look cute together.
Today at work was pretty mediocre; I pulled in eight hours of work. Three horrible things happened:
1. Some guy I work with slammed down a crate of milk between us as we were filling them. One of the bottles had no lid and we both got friggin soaked
2. A box of mozzarella fell on my head
3. Someone accidentally hit my pregnant boss in the stomach with their trolley
Ahhh, life. I just wish these fans would shut up. The only gripe I have with the case is that two fans are at the front. They’re necessary (and quite good looking) but the noise output is quite high for a ‘quiet’ case.
End transmission. *frog*