WooHoo!!! So this weekend, I got the OK from my beautiful financial advisor to go ahead and order the parts for my new PC. Now, if you have been keeping up, my current PC of almost five years, kicked the bit bucket the day after Thanksgiving. I had been planning for a little over a year to build a new one, but with everything that has happened over the past year, there was never a good time – not to mention the incredible leap in technology that has happened in just a matter of the past few months. So, my most recent misfortune will become an early Christmas present instead!
So to review, in choosing my components, I had to follow a few guidelines…. well at least I had to come close…
Here is a link to the components I purchased this past Saturday. In all actuality, this setup should last me more than 5 years – even with my love for gaming. My current plan is to have Ubuntu linux as my primary operating system… unfortunately, I’m a gamer, so I will also have a small windows partition as well. Anyway. not a bad setup for around $1,300: A quad-core proc and 4Gigs of RAM… more than enough to run a couple of virtual machines and the host OS without breaking a sweat.
Man, am I stoked!
So stoked in fact, that I realized that in my eagerness, I ordered the OEM version of the CPU instead of the retail version… meaning that while the one I purchased was cheaper, it comes without a heatsink and fan. So, I rushed to newegg this afternoon and got THIS. This HSF combo is rated really well in the research that I did. Now it is just a waiting game… expanded by a day or two because of my ordering slip-up.(Ya really don’t want to try to run a computer without a heatsink on the processor…. unless you’re a pyro.)
Barring any delays, all of the parts should be in before the weekend, when I shall lock myself in my “la-bor-a-tory” like a mad scientist and perform my magic…
So Stoked!!!!
[tags]computer, pc, ubuntu, windows, newegg[/tags]
