Lazy morning, copy/pasta-ing from my Facebook posts late last night:
This is my parts list:
Kingwin USB 3.0 to SATA/IDE Adapter
Toshiba P300 1TB 7,200 RPM SATA III 6Gb/s 3.5" Desktop Internal Hard Drive - HDWD110XZSTAhttp://www.microcenter.com/product/432811/USB_30_to_SATA-IDE_Adapter
Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-01 Mid Tower Gaming Computer Case
AMD FX 8320E Black Edition PileDriver 3.2 GHz Eight-Core AM3+ Boxed Processor
ASUS 970 Pro Gaming/Aura AM3+ ATX AMD Motherboard
Azio Vision Backlit Large Print Keyboard
So I can drive up to MicroCenter in Chicago which is about an hour away and pick all that kit up for $330. I'm gonna look at keyboards while I'm there to see if there might be one better that she'd like, but this is currently my game plan to fix my wife's PC in time for her birthday. (Which, btw, is tomorrow...)
Any suggestions? And yeah I know it seems stupid to buy an FX CPU and AM3+ mobo on the day the Ry5 comes out, but she's not really a gamer and uses her PC for web cruising/watching viddies...and this should be great for that.
I don't know, I spent all afternoon/evening swapping out mobos and CPUs trying to get her PC working and it's just gotten to the point where all my backup parts are just too old and broken and her PC was a mess to begin with. It's main drive is an IDE and her other drive is a 4200rpm laptop drive I tossed in one day since I had it...the 1Tb is long overdue and she doesn't need an SSD yet, a good 7200 should be impressive enough to her. (And I can always add an M2 later when they get a bit cheaper. )
I dunno, it just seems like a good idea and a good price for what I'm getting...but I need reassurance or someone yelling at me that I'm wrong and no one around here is objective enough for me to really value their opinion on it. You folks know your shit, so I really like the feedback.
Thanks in advance again, I'd go nuts if I didn't have you people to talk to about my PC problems. My family's eyes just glaze over when I start talking about it.
And a bonus, a picture I took yesterday before putting the mess of non-working bits away:
My wife's computer Blue broke down this morning. I swapped out 3 different mobos and 2 different CPUs, all my spare parts are dead and her computer was the last in a long chain of upgrade hand-me-downs kept running with bubble-gum and bailing wire.
On the plus side it's got a solid 650w Corsair PSU and a 7970, the downside would be it needs a new cpu/mobo and probably about half the memory from Bubbles to get her up and running....along with a new HDD. She has two in her now, one is a bloody IDE and the other is an old 4200rpm laptop drive. <yeah, I'm embarrassed.> Heck, mebbe even a new case? She doesn't like how you have to touch the wires together to make it reboot. (Her power and reset switches gave out, so I just have a couple of lines sticking out the front that I'd hit together to form the switch.)
I'm trying to fix my wife's PC in time for her birthday, and that gives about tomorrow to do it. :|
I think I can, I have that psychotic focus I get when I'm zoned in on a problem. I've been price shopping all over and running numbers in my head of performance/price and available parts compatibility. I'm either in my happy place or hell, I'm never sure until the project gets finished.
BTW- The irony of my rebuilding my wife's PC for her birthday present are not lost on me, I'm just not gonna let it get me all weird.
This is my parts list:
Kingwin USB 3.0 to SATA/IDE Adapter
Toshiba P300 1TB 7,200 RPM SATA III 6Gb/s 3.5" Desktop Internal Hard Drive - HDWD110XZSTAhttp://www.microcenter.com/product/432811/USB_30_to_SATA-IDE_Adapter
Corsair Carbide Series SPEC-01 Mid Tower Gaming Computer Case
AMD FX 8320E Black Edition PileDriver 3.2 GHz Eight-Core AM3+ Boxed Processor
ASUS 970 Pro Gaming/Aura AM3+ ATX AMD Motherboard
Azio Vision Backlit Large Print Keyboard
So I can drive up to MicroCenter in Chicago which is about an hour away and pick all that kit up for $330. I'm gonna look at keyboards while I'm there to see if there might be one better that she'd like, but this is currently my game plan to fix my wife's PC in time for her birthday. (Which, btw, is tomorrow...)
Any suggestions? And yeah I know it seems stupid to buy an FX CPU and AM3+ mobo on the day the Ry5 comes out, but she's not really a gamer and uses her PC for web cruising/watching viddies...and this should be great for that.
I don't know, I spent all afternoon/evening swapping out mobos and CPUs trying to get her PC working and it's just gotten to the point where all my backup parts are just too old and broken and her PC was a mess to begin with. It's main drive is an IDE and her other drive is a 4200rpm laptop drive I tossed in one day since I had it...the 1Tb is long overdue and she doesn't need an SSD yet, a good 7200 should be impressive enough to her. (And I can always add an M2 later when they get a bit cheaper. )
I dunno, it just seems like a good idea and a good price for what I'm getting...but I need reassurance or someone yelling at me that I'm wrong and no one around here is objective enough for me to really value their opinion on it. You folks know your shit, so I really like the feedback.
Thanks in advance again, I'd go nuts if I didn't have you people to talk to about my PC problems. My family's eyes just glaze over when I start talking about it.
And a bonus, a picture I took yesterday before putting the mess of non-working bits away: