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Mercury Down
Sep. 30th, 2013 04:57 amSo, some of you may remember my mentioning my system of naming computers in desktop/laptop pairs, and how I had Mercury (desktop) and Quicksilver (laptop) and was going to replace them with Coyote and Roadrunner, but Mercury has thus far decided to foil my scheme by living forever even though I already have Roadrunner....
Well, scratch that. Mercury has been subtly running slower and slower, and last night, my RAID controller informed me that one of the hard drives has failed. That's the sort of thing I'd need to act on anyway, but since I'm probably in the "this computer is ancient, do they even make that kind of hard drive anymore" category by now, I may as well just take the "while I'm shopping anyway" opportunity to upgrade everything and FUCK IT COYOTE TIME
(Fortunately Mercury is at least kind enough to limp along and allow me to use it and everything in the mean time, albeit with one hard drive. So, I'd like to have the parts for Coyote ordered as soon as possible, but it isn't a "must place my order TODAY because I have NO COMPUTER UNTIL THEN" crisis or anything.)
The bad news, of course, is that I haven't built a computer in centuries and I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. Here's my wish list so far, but it is definitely subject to change as knowledgeable people chime in and tell me how I have all the wrong parts and nothing is compatible with anything.
http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=20615671
You may also note that I'm going for the stuff I want at the end level first (hard drives, RAM, etc.) and trying to find a motherboard that can actually fit all of that later, rather than starting with the motherboard and trying to figure out my foundation for what chipset/connectors/etc. I have to work with because I DON'T KNOW, HELP
Fortunately, since the most important part of Mercury hasn't failed and I don't foresee there being any connector compatibility issues with whatever I get for Coyote (since, you know, it doesn't actually connect to anything,) there's at least one part I can transfer over.
Well, scratch that. Mercury has been subtly running slower and slower, and last night, my RAID controller informed me that one of the hard drives has failed. That's the sort of thing I'd need to act on anyway, but since I'm probably in the "this computer is ancient, do they even make that kind of hard drive anymore" category by now, I may as well just take the "while I'm shopping anyway" opportunity to upgrade everything and FUCK IT COYOTE TIME
(Fortunately Mercury is at least kind enough to limp along and allow me to use it and everything in the mean time, albeit with one hard drive. So, I'd like to have the parts for Coyote ordered as soon as possible, but it isn't a "must place my order TODAY because I have NO COMPUTER UNTIL THEN" crisis or anything.)
The bad news, of course, is that I haven't built a computer in centuries and I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. Here's my wish list so far, but it is definitely subject to change as knowledgeable people chime in and tell me how I have all the wrong parts and nothing is compatible with anything.
http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=20615671
You may also note that I'm going for the stuff I want at the end level first (hard drives, RAM, etc.) and trying to find a motherboard that can actually fit all of that later, rather than starting with the motherboard and trying to figure out my foundation for what chipset/connectors/etc. I have to work with because I DON'T KNOW, HELP
Fortunately, since the most important part of Mercury hasn't failed and I don't foresee there being any connector compatibility issues with whatever I get for Coyote (since, you know, it doesn't actually connect to anything,) there's at least one part I can transfer over.