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PC in pieces again

Thu Sep 28, 2006, 6:03 AM

Mood: Annoyed
Listening to: Sigur Ros - Takk...
Reading: nothing
Watching: Twenty-fucking-four
Playing: Guild Wars (Nightfall soon!!)
Eating: Not enough Ramen
Drinking: Orange Fanta

Is there ever a time when I'm NOT repairing my computer? Either I have horrible luck or I treat my PC really badly... the latter is probably the case this time. Basically I was playing Guild Wars with my sweet new SLI setup, and I hear a (pfff) and my computer turns off. The (pfff) was followed shortly by a faint burning smell, and naturally, the computer wouldn't turn back on. I figured that it was probably the power supply; the next morning, my dad confirmed that it was probably the power supply; some short research into buying a new power supply later, and I confirmed that my power supply was waaaay too shitty to run a sweet new SLI setup. Long story short, I'm out another $110.
...but my new SLI setup is gonna be SWEET!

New specs:
ASUS A8N32-SLI motherboard (assuming the PSU didn't fry it)
Athlon 64 X2 2.0GHz dual-core processor
3GB Corsair RAM
2x Geforce 7600GT 256MB PCI-E16x video cards
Creative Audigy 2 ZS Platinum sound card
660GB HD space
580W PSU!

Moral of the story: don't skimp on your PSU. It's like skimping on your spinal column--it's what powers the rest of the machine.

Listen to this:

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~SilverBee Sep 28, 2006, 9:45:04 AM

Hee-hee. Something like this always happens every few months to you. Nearly clockwork!

I shouldn't be giggling, but it seems like it should be a topic for a cartoon.

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You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
-Eleanor Roosevelt-

~dcschmo Sep 28, 2006, 1:24:15 PM

Well, I just got it fixed, and that should be the last of my troubles for a long while. (Everything in the system is less than a year old now! Well, except the CD-RW/DVD drives, but I have spares.) Good thing; my bank account won't hold out for long at this rate.

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