OMG OMG OMG!!! The first fancy cardboard shows up at the door! The backbone of the whole system, it is the XPS 420's motherboard, found used and working flawlessly for $20. Cant beat that with a stick.
Up on opening the box... What the...??? Shopping bags. This already has me feeling a little on the edgy side. Shopping bags are a great carrier of static electricity, which eats stuff like computer motherboards with a cup of coffee and some muffins.
Upon opening further, this is what I found. Wow, I think the purchaser of this Reversible Twin Comforter will be VERY unhappy with the performance of the product found inside. Never have, but I cant imagine that a mobo feels great to stretch out on. Machine wash and tumble dry eh? That wont buff out purdy... Sadder yet was to see that indeed the mobo was NOT packed in an antistatic bag. As much of a n00b as this seller might have been, I would have thought packing that kind of stuff in antistatic bags was common sense. You shuffle your feet across the carpet, shock your laptop and kill it. Why? Deeeee Dee Deeeeeeeee! C'mon.
Well there it is on the table. I hope it still works... This particular board has an LGA775 socket on it for an Intel-based processor. It can take up to 8GB of DDR2 RAM and has a single PCI-e slot for graphics. Throw in some nice high-speed USB ports, integrated 7.1 sound, firewire and eSATA, and I'm set for a kickin' system on the cheap.
The BIG CPU cooler arrived as well, and for $4 it was worth it (its even the quad-core edition!). I threw on an additional little fan on the chipset after reading that thing gets really hot in the forums. If I'm gonna be crankin' up the MHz on this thing, I CANT let heat hold me back. Always make sure you have good cooling. More on this when the case shows up! Stay tuned!
OMG OMG OMG!!! The first fancy cardboard shows up at the door! The backbone of the whole system, it is the XPS 420's motherboard, found used and working flawlessly for $20. Cant beat that with a stick.
Up on opening the box... What the...??? Shopping bags. This already has me feeling a little on the edgy side. Shopping bags are a great carrier of static electricity, which eats stuff like computer motherboards with a cup of coffee and some muffins.
Upon opening further, this is what I found. Wow, I think the purchaser of this Reversible Twin Comforter will be VERY unhappy with the performance of the product found inside. Never have, but I cant imagine that a mobo feels great to stretch out on. Machine wash and tumble dry eh? That wont buff out purdy... Sadder yet was to see that indeed the mobo was NOT packed in an antistatic bag. As much of a n00b as this seller might have been, I would have thought packing that kind of stuff in antistatic bags was common sense. You shuffle your feet across the carpet, shock your laptop and kill it. Why? Deeeee Dee Deeeeeeeee! C'mon.
Well there it is on the table. I hope it still works... This particular board has an LGA775 socket on it for an Intel-based processor. It can take up to 8GB of DDR2 RAM and has a single PCI-e slot for graphics. Throw in some nice high-speed USB ports, integrated 7.1 sound, firewire and eSATA, and I'm set for a kickin' system on the cheap.
The BIG CPU cooler arrived as well, and for $4 it was worth it (its even the quad-core edition!). I threw on an additional little fan on the chipset after reading that thing gets really hot in the forums. If I'm gonna be crankin' up the MHz on this thing, I CANT let heat hold me back. Always make sure you have good cooling. More on this when the case shows up! Stay tuned!
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