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I upgraded my computer!
5 months ago
I got some upgrades for my computer recently, through a bizarre series of events that I really wish hadn't happened, but I am going to take advantage of it since it did.
Ok, so first off, we were trying to upgrade Dhaijaris's computer (roommate, former partner) when she bought some new parts but when Cain and I went to install them we forgot to flash the bios so the new processor wasn't recognized. Unfortunately, during the process of swapping processors, the old one got about 80% of the pins bent because the cpu fan was basically glued to the processor and I didn't realize that had happened so I didn't accomodate for it. Thus, the old processor was basically destroyed. Well, since we were the ones that fucked it up, we decided to just replace her computer and bought an entirely new one that was even better than what she was going to have with these updates (thank you Costco for having a cheap gaming rig!). As a result, Dhai gave me and Cain the things that were meant to upgrade her old computer.
Well, Dhai and I used to be together, and when I built mine and Dhai's computers back in 2018... I built them with identical parts. A few things had changed over the years from upgrades and parts dying, but this meant that the parts Dhai got to upgrade her old computer... would fit mine.
So, I flashed my bios and then installed all the new parts. Everything works great, and now my computer is almost as much of a power house as her's is. Cain's power house of a computer, which used to be leagues ahead of both Dhai's and my computers, is now the one slightly lagging behind. It feels funny to have such a new computer now. Not complaining though!
The upgrades were an RTX 3060, 32 GB of ram at a higher speed, and an AMD Ryzen 7 5800 XT processor.
Ok, so first off, we were trying to upgrade Dhaijaris's computer (roommate, former partner) when she bought some new parts but when Cain and I went to install them we forgot to flash the bios so the new processor wasn't recognized. Unfortunately, during the process of swapping processors, the old one got about 80% of the pins bent because the cpu fan was basically glued to the processor and I didn't realize that had happened so I didn't accomodate for it. Thus, the old processor was basically destroyed. Well, since we were the ones that fucked it up, we decided to just replace her computer and bought an entirely new one that was even better than what she was going to have with these updates (thank you Costco for having a cheap gaming rig!). As a result, Dhai gave me and Cain the things that were meant to upgrade her old computer.
Well, Dhai and I used to be together, and when I built mine and Dhai's computers back in 2018... I built them with identical parts. A few things had changed over the years from upgrades and parts dying, but this meant that the parts Dhai got to upgrade her old computer... would fit mine.
So, I flashed my bios and then installed all the new parts. Everything works great, and now my computer is almost as much of a power house as her's is. Cain's power house of a computer, which used to be leagues ahead of both Dhai's and my computers, is now the one slightly lagging behind. It feels funny to have such a new computer now. Not complaining though!
The upgrades were an RTX 3060, 32 GB of ram at a higher speed, and an AMD Ryzen 7 5800 XT processor.
