Happy Birthday Mike!
At least I see the lights are back on at his housekind of worried about mike - no response to pms, posts and emails
Earlier I put two and two together after all these years. It just came to me yesterday that I gave up one hobby for another. That is if you can call vaping a hobby. It seems I stopped building computers about the same time I started building coils.
So now I have been bitten by the computer bug again since getting a new computer. I'm in the process of building another one with some of the parts from my old computer and a bunch of parts from Craigslist and eBay.
Here is the specs on the one I'm putting together.
Antec Nine Hundred Two case
EVGA 550 watt power supply
Asus H170 Plus D3 mother board
I5-6500 processor
Cooler Master Hyper 212 cooler
16 Gb G-Skill OC memory
Asus GTX560 Ti video card
1 Tb Crucial 2.5 SSD
2 Tb WD Purple
That's $235 out of pocket plus I have the case, power supply and hard drives.
My thinking is I can get the money out of my parts best by building the whole computer and selling it.
But then again I stopped building them when I started losing $100 on each one but those were all new parts, these are all used parts.
So now I have been bitten by the computer bug again since getting a new computer. I'm in the process of building another one with some of the parts from my old computer and a bunch of parts from Craigslist and eBay.
Here is the specs on the one I'm putting together.
Antec Nine Hundred Two case
EVGA 550 watt power supply
Asus H170 Plus D3 mother board
I5-6500 processor
Cooler Master Hyper 212 cooler
16 Gb G-Skill OC memory
Asus GTX560 Ti video card
1 Tb Crucial 2.5 SSD
2 Tb WD Purple
That's $235 out of pocket plus I have the case, power supply and hard drives.
My thinking is I can get the money out of my parts best by building the whole computer and selling it.
But then again I stopped building them when I started losing $100 on each one but those were all new parts, these are all used parts.
At least they're back on at Mike's. Hudson's been off from around/before 6am when I woke up
I built a lot of PC's when I got out of tech school. That looks like a pretty decent build.
I built one last year. I still go for the Intel CPU for reliability, and I really like the Gigabyte ultra durable motherboards. They have stood the test of time for me. And I look for integrated M.2 hard drive compatibility for the motherboard. The hard drive is always the bottle neck, especially after its been running for a while. With PCIe/NVME hard drives they stay fast for the life of the PC. My first was the Revo Drive 3X2 that plugged into the PCIe video card slot. I never looked back after that. Right now its the Samsung 1TB 960PRO sitting right next to the CPU in the M.2 slot. The hard drive is the size of a memory stick. And its still very fast a year later.
Lately, I've been procrastinating on installing a new video card so I can have 3 monitors with the same interface. HDMI in this case. I just need some contact cleaner for the PCIe slot to get the vape scum out of the connector before installing it. ROG GF RTX 2060 OC 6GB. A lot of money for a video card just to let it sit on the shelf. It's surprising how many places don't carry dissolving contact cleaner. I may just have to order it online and wait a week.
You may have paid a lot for the video card when you bought it but check the price of it now with the chip shortage. Most likely it is triple what you paid for it.
The skyrocketing price for some chips is way way more than lumber hikes.
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