You gotta learn how to live on the edge, man, this is how it's done in the real world - not all of us grew up to be rocket-boys.
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You would have had a minor heart attack if you had seen me ripping apart my old computer and piecing together the new one two weeks ago - fleeces, carpets, dust, dog-hairs (not mine), human hairs (possibly mine), and food crumbs to boot. And, just because it was cold, a coal/peat fire burning away not 2 metres from all the graphics cards, DDR4 modules, "yet to be assembled" air-cooler parts and "suspiciously left over" motherboard bits I had strewn about the smoke filled room where "room temperature" was highly dependant upon where you were standing... or kneeling... or bending over applying thermal insulating paste to shiny things (with
loads of fingerprints), etc, etc, etc.
And, just to spite your scaredy-cat arse, it all came off without a hitch. Plugged her in, closed my eyes, and pressed the button - fully expecting a puff of blue smoke and a coil-whine as dirge. But no, she beeped, bopped, and bumped me into the UEFI madness that passes for BIOS these days. Maybe the luck-o-the-Irish... maybe just the way cookie-crumbles...
And what's the first thing I did? I cleared the CMOS (after first powerdown), just like my mammy taught me to do when starting a new tractor. All's good and running at a lazy 4.6Ghz with 1.285 volts / 1.352 adaptive max, (0.800 volts idle) and pulling little more than 275 watts from the wall at full stress tilt (including LCD and the world's most wonky desklamp). Why I bothered with a 750 Watt PSU I'll never know - but on the plus side, at less than 40% load the fan doesn't even bother to turn on.
I don't know how you big-city boys do it with all your book-learnin' and fancy tools and stuff, but out here on the razor's edge, we just roll up our sleeves, kiss a bit of metal, and hunker down to get the job done, no muss, no fuss.
And, for the record, decent motherboards these days - not the ones you buy in PC world - are fitted with military grade capacitors just in case idiots like me get our hands on them. I may be stupid, but no one can say I don't I pay for the privilege!
(At least I'm doing something - poor Nikos is afraid his computer's going to die and he's terrified of replacing a hard-drive with an SSD. He seems to think it will upset the PC's tao or cha-cha-cha or whatever sensitive emotional balance his has keeping it together.
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