Showing posts with label PC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PC. Show all posts

Friday, September 14, 2007

How Hard Can It Be?

The search for a new PC continues. I spent 2 hours in Hillhead Library with Cairnsie & still haven't ordered anything. It seems that most of the research I've done is pretty useless when it comes to actually doing the purchasing. All the websites that do bundles &c use their own codes for, especially, motherboards & memory.

If I wanted to go to the individual manufacturers & order separately I could get the components I've traced. Getting what I want in the combination I'd like from Novatech or Ebuyer is impossible. I can't even figure out what some of the pre-build places offer. This used to be sooo much easier!

Monday, August 20, 2007

Bugger!

Well, just when I had decided to save some dosh by upgrading rather than replacing my PC, the first components I bought blew it up.

A 'new' 2gb stick of DDR RAM shorted out, frying itself, the socket and the rest of the memory. No choice now but a full rebuild.