right on bro!

I finally got to fixing my dead desktop PC. My brother sent me a CPU and motherboard he wasn’t using, so now I’m rocking an Athlon 2600+ (Barton core) with an nForce2 Ultra 400 motherboard. It’s snappier than my old one (janky old Fry’s Electronics Athlon/mobo combo), and I think I might try a little bit of overclocking since these Bartons apparently have a rep for good overclock ability.

I generally like tinkering with PCs - ever since my Uncle Martin took me to a hamshack in Flushing, New York to purchase a Seagate 20MB (that’s megabytes, not gigabytes) hard disk to replace the one we had in the family PC, back in the late ’80s I think. And last year I ended up doing a lot of research to make this desktop pretty quiet, so I was pretty annoyed that it had died.

Well, this time around it was pretty agonizing, because I had just reformatted this machine about 10 months ago, and I hate doing things twice when there’s no increasing ROI. It wasn’t so much installing the hardware as it was installing Windows, and then spending another 40 minutes watching it download and install security patches.

Anyway, I’m back up and running and have re-installed most of the major apps. Almost an entire day blown fixing my PC, so I can do the exact same things I did before the PC died. Nice work.