Woke up, feeling more sadness. Just a day ago, I was talking to him on my phone. Now? Not anymore. :'( Meh.
Also, my father is still throwing up, and it’s possible I might have to contact Uber and get his ass up to the hospital. But having never used Uber (ever), I feel I might have to go with them as I have an account (since.. how are they going to get back home?)
Yeeeah. Not a good morning.
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But on a.. not sure if I should even say ‘positive side’ (with what I (and my parents) are going through), my mother gave me the $500 I need to upgrade my computer. So, yay. Wish it came at a better time. :/
But, I went to Amazon and added the parts to the cart (CPU/RAM/Board/PSU).. wait WHAT?! $377.32 instead of $472.52?? Are you serious, that I saved nearly $100? No way! Checked the parts again, everything matches to the debate we had.
Holy shit. NOT BAD for less than $400!! 😀 Buuuut.. I’m not going to go gung ho just yet– No, I really want to be able to maximize the performance to dollar ratio I can get out of this upgrade. So I’m going to contact Zagro this evening (and hopefully bring Wuffer into the call) to see what we could do with this. Right now I need to deal with IRL
issues, that are more important than PC parts.
EDIT: At 2:44PM, Amazon has informed me the new nearly $80 headphones will arrive tomorrow. Excellent. I just hope they’re comfortable, as I have big ears. Plus (according to the pictures), it comes with a mute button (and I do remember Wuffer tapping the side of his face to mute himself).
EDIT2: So it was Zagro that helped me out. Wuffer (though he did say he would
help), never said he was ready to. So I didn’t want to bother him (and I really didn’t need to, honestly). We found the full-sized ATX board that was discussed in our debate, still available for purchase. Zagro also highly recommended (the fact I decided not to go with the new case) to get a pack of screws on a ‘just incase’ scenario. Though I’m pretty sure the new motherboard will fit perfectly in my case.
Since the RAM had only two orders left for purchase, I ended up buying everything.
Grand total comes to $439.31 (a savings of $60.69 from my total budget), and the parts will be arriving by either next Thursday or Friday.
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When I get the parts, I’ll pick a day to pre-prep my computer (backup my C drive), and then a day to do the installation (I’ll also take some before and after pictures).
I can already feel the anxiety growing, but I have to stay cool and confident. I got my computer to boot when I did a full swap back to my old board and CPU (replaced the board, installed the CPU, put paste on it.. that was all me).
..I can do this. Just need to believe in myself by taking a deep breath, relaxing, and getting it done.
EDIT3 (5/5/19): 4 of the 5 parts (only part missing is the RAM) have now been
shipped, and will be arriving this Wednesday. In addition, I got a promo code for buying the Ryzen 5 2600 for the games Tom Clancy’s Division 2 Gold Edition and World War Z. Lovely, both of them are multiplayer games, so I could care less.
Might do a raffle (or something) for the promo code, though. Can’t exactly give it away.
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EDIT4 (5/7/19): The RAM shipped last night and will be arriving the same day as my other parts (which is tomorrow). It’s possible they had to quickly order more to give one of them to me.
Also, I think I overlooked something when I said I was getting 16GB. The RAM comes in a 2-pack, meaning, in theory.. I’ll get 32GB in total. 🙂
