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9 years ago
Welp, I don't know how many of you are computer building savvy, but we received all of our computer parts and put the thing together, no issues so far, seems to be running great c:
This means I get my computer back! Yay! This week and next week are finals, and I am very busy with school work, but after next week the semester will be over! This means I'll have time for art! More yay! I'll be doing my YCH commission first then other owed artwork. I hope to create an actual ToS over break and a commissions sheet to be able to start taking commissions.
For those computer savvy, we came very close to making a relatively easy but awful mistake during the build. I believe in using after-market heatsinks, because they are relatively cheap and work significantly better than the stock heatsink that comes with a processor and the processor is probably one of the most expensive parts of a computer (unless you get really into high-end video cards). Installing the heatsink is probably the most nerve-wracking part of building a computer. My husband and I were building together, and he really wanted to do the heatsink. It's been awhile since he has worked on the internal parts of a computer, and he's a little out of touch, but I was helping and we made sure to re-watch a tutorial video while we did it. So we install the heatsink, and everything goes very smoothly and we sigh in relief because the rest of the build is quite easy. He puts in the ram and I circle around the comp to look at something or get something and notice the heat-sink's backplate is on upside down. We look it up and that is definitely a problem! If we were to turn it on like that it would have fried our motherboard and we might not have ever known what was wrong with the thing and had to RMA a bunch of parts thinking they came DOA. So now we are freaking out, because it's like 10 pm and we're tired from not getting enough sleep the night before. We try to take off the back bolts while holding the front in place to just switch the backplate orientation, which we thought could work in theory. Start taking off the first one, once the bolt came off the springs on the front popped hard, flinging the nut behind the motherboard. Ooops.. Darn it this plan isn't going to work! So we resolve ourselves and disassemble the heatsink, clean off the paste carefully, take out the motherboard (that nut got wedged behind it), and re-did the whole thing. But we caught it and everything works. Went to bed at 3 am lol. Boy was that terrifying for a moment though!
TLDR;
We got our new computer working and I'll be working on art after this semester ends in two weeks. We almost fried our motherboard during the build process due to an upside-down backplate, but thankfully caught it relatively early in the build.
This means I get my computer back! Yay! This week and next week are finals, and I am very busy with school work, but after next week the semester will be over! This means I'll have time for art! More yay! I'll be doing my YCH commission first then other owed artwork. I hope to create an actual ToS over break and a commissions sheet to be able to start taking commissions.
For those computer savvy, we came very close to making a relatively easy but awful mistake during the build. I believe in using after-market heatsinks, because they are relatively cheap and work significantly better than the stock heatsink that comes with a processor and the processor is probably one of the most expensive parts of a computer (unless you get really into high-end video cards). Installing the heatsink is probably the most nerve-wracking part of building a computer. My husband and I were building together, and he really wanted to do the heatsink. It's been awhile since he has worked on the internal parts of a computer, and he's a little out of touch, but I was helping and we made sure to re-watch a tutorial video while we did it. So we install the heatsink, and everything goes very smoothly and we sigh in relief because the rest of the build is quite easy. He puts in the ram and I circle around the comp to look at something or get something and notice the heat-sink's backplate is on upside down. We look it up and that is definitely a problem! If we were to turn it on like that it would have fried our motherboard and we might not have ever known what was wrong with the thing and had to RMA a bunch of parts thinking they came DOA. So now we are freaking out, because it's like 10 pm and we're tired from not getting enough sleep the night before. We try to take off the back bolts while holding the front in place to just switch the backplate orientation, which we thought could work in theory. Start taking off the first one, once the bolt came off the springs on the front popped hard, flinging the nut behind the motherboard. Ooops.. Darn it this plan isn't going to work! So we resolve ourselves and disassemble the heatsink, clean off the paste carefully, take out the motherboard (that nut got wedged behind it), and re-did the whole thing. But we caught it and everything works. Went to bed at 3 am lol. Boy was that terrifying for a moment though!
TLDR;
We got our new computer working and I'll be working on art after this semester ends in two weeks. We almost fried our motherboard during the build process due to an upside-down backplate, but thankfully caught it relatively early in the build.
