I sometimes wonder if I should be allowed to build my own PC. I assembled it today to work out that the old graphics card is AGP, whereas the new slots are PCI-e. So back online to Dabs to buy more goodies, and since my optical drive was designed for a flappy fronted case and is unprotected in my new case (which looks lush incidently, for all it’s daft bling bling LEDs) I thought I’d pop a new one of them in my basket too. Plus a couple of fans for this new build and Dad’s ancient fan heater tower. And an I/O sheild from ebay (Netherlands, no less) because warranty repaired motherboard didn’t come with one.
The card reader, tablet mouse and keyboard are still original. The fact that the old computer itself now has almost enough of it’s original components it can run complete (keyboard and mouse for around a tenner in Tescos if I wanted, and it never used the card reader anyway…) perhaps means I should consider this re-build… a build…
It’s still more fun than buying. Though I do feel I should write a “Girl Tips for Building Computers” page.
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