Manda QoP

Shiny, new, lovely - happy sigh! 6 RAM slots could be kinda useful It's a processor that means business when the fan is bigger than your mouse, and hand... Blue lights are supposedly very calming. This should be perfect for staying cool, calm and collected when battling hoards of zombies. I guess it might be a good idea to stick an operating system on it now, will need to turn it off and stop looking at the calming blue lights first though.

The new PC has arrived - so shiny, so pretty, and such a HUGE processor fan. I've been sitting with it on my knee for 5 minutes, should probably put it back in its box. Wonder if anyone would notice if I snuck off home now to start setting it up. Am currently very impressed with Spannerbox as all the spare parts have also been sent with the PC. Another motherboard box full of bits to add to my collection at home. And as if that wasn't enough great news for one day, I've also received approval to go on the SQL BI course being run by www.wardyit.com . Things come in threes apparently, so with any luck there's a cheque for a squillion dollars sitting in the letter box when I get home. A girl can dream. :)

After much trial and error at the weekend (at least 10 minutes of investigating), it appears that the HDD hasn't gone kaput on the monster PC at home, the CPU has died a horrible death. What a terrible shame, now I'll have to buy a new motherboard, CPU, memory... blah de blah... The thing is though, do I just want to get spannerbox to make me a spiffy new 64-bit machine that I can dual-boot (cubase and 64-bit do not play well together), or shall I just upgrade the current box. It'll probably cost the same whichever way I do this but I guess if I upgrade the Thermaltake box at least then I'll get some moolah back - the box itself is worth a few hundred bucks. If anyone has a spare (free) i7 processor lying around with a compatible motherboard, feel free to send it my way. :) Rest in pieces CPU.