Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by p1l0t

Watching your build has made me want to build another tower in the worst. I probably have enough crap to build a frankenstein machine but I want to build something fresh and new.

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I built an NT 4 machine once. Fucking huge mistake. Couldn't run any consumer-grade peripherals. NOTHING was ported to it. Might as well have been OS/2.

[Ashikabi]

Originally Posted by Cole

If I could do it again, I'd buy a pre-built rig, maybe something used and slightly outdated, then replace things part by part. But easier to dip my toes in that way, instead of the proverbial cherry popping by Ron Jeremy.

So many of the trouble shooting steps I found online were a bit over my head. I have a passable knowledge, but I lacked some important items like a mobo speaker (will be buying one asap), that kind of held me back today.

On the plus side, since I've built my system twice now, I'm fairly proficient at it. If all my future builds can take 30 mins to put together and then have 5 hours of subsequent trouble shooting, I'll be a happy man.

Lol jk, I'm never doing a full, fresh build again.

Just be glad you weren't doing this 10 years ago when windows didn't have most of your standard drivers and shit. Everything is much easier now. Your future troubleshooting will be much faster too. My last tower was assembled and running on the first try. Longest part was installing windows. Over all about 3 hours of work from boxes to installing games. No issues at all. I've only assembled 5 towers

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Cole

Anyhow, how did everyone's Valentine's Day go?

The missus and I have a pact. We don't do Valentines Day. She cheated today though. We had cheesecake with little pink roses for dessert.

[Andrew025]

Originally Posted by Cole

Anyhow, how did everyone's Valentine's Day go?

I ate sushi by myself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Ashikabi]

Originally Posted by Andrew025

I ate sushi by myself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Did you buy yourself racecar parts?

[Andrew025]

Originally Posted by Ashikabi

Did you buy yourself racecar parts?

Well... there's these springs I want...

[Ashikabi]

Originally Posted by Andrew025

Well... there's these springs I want...

You've still got 40 minutes. Treat yourself. You deserve it

[Phijkchu]

Originally Posted by Cole

Anyhow, how did everyone's Valentine's Day go?

It was Valentine's Day?

Originally Posted by Ashikabi

Eats up your calories. Also it tells your muscles to adapt differently. I don't do cardio and I haven't done cardio since I got to be a decent size that didn't affect my muscle mass. I say, unless your diet is really on point, don't do it. To gain muscle and lose fat effectively you have to walk this fine caloric line. Too much you get fat, too little and you get fat and lose muscle. Too much of non-clean calories and you'll gain fat and lose muscle. It's a massive pain in the ass

So what if I'm a really skinny 16 year old trying to eat more and do some cardio to get some exercise in?

[Cole]

Originally Posted by Phijkchu

It was Valentine's Day?


So what if I'm a really skinny 16 year old trying to eat more and do some cardio to get some exercise in?

Don't worry about it. Just eat what you want, stay active and enjoy your teenage years.

[Andrew025]

Originally Posted by Ashikabi

You've still got 40 minutes. Treat yourself. You deserve it

I was just channeling my inner Steve.

[p1l0t]

Originally Posted by Cole

Anyhow, how did everyone's Valentine's Day go? We had a very quiet night. Ordered in from a very good burger joint. I had one beef patty and one bacon patty on mine. Bacon patties are absolutely amazing. Gods gift to man. The gf also decided she wanted specialty fries topped with what I can only describe as the devils excrement. They may have been the most spicy thing I've ever eaten in my life. It was pulled beef in a jerk sauce with ghost peppers. I had maybe 10 fries from it, and the woman had almost the rest. I do not envy her bathroom trip tomorrow morning.

Had some roast duck at some schwanky marina/inn/restaurant on the shoreline. It was a nice place. It was in a town where my grandparents used to have a house so lots of childhood memories came back on the drive in.

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[soulreapersteve]

Originally Posted by Ashikabi

Good for you. Now buy the springs anyways. As a present to yourself for going to the gym. Did you save all my previous advice on workout shit? And stay away from cardio. It murders your gains

Can I do cardio as a warm up? Like just a mile of light bike/elliptical/etc. That's what I did today as warmup and cool down. Rest was getting body used to working out again. SO MUCH FUN!

I recall some of the stuff you mentioned, thought I bookmarked it though. Hardest thing isn't actually working out, its going to be diet. :/

Originally Posted by Cole

This has been one of the weirdest emotional rollercoasters of my life. All the hours of research were very fun since I learned a ton in a very short time. Receiving the parts was exciting, because it was like christmas. Assembling was great, since it was like lego. First boot was nerve wracking. "No signal" on my display was like getting punched in the ****. Finally seeing the set-up screen was the worst, I wanted to stand in front of a mirror and chew myself out for sucking at my first attempt but it was such a giant relief to have all the effort result in the intended effect

Welcome to the world of IT! Mounds of frustration but when you finally get things to work, it feels like you saved the world.

Originally Posted by Cole

Anyhow, how did everyone's Valentine's Day go?

Spent 2 hours getting swol and checking out the ladies. 1 looked mean as hell and can probably break me in half, in more ways than one.

[Ashikabi]

Originally Posted by Phijkchu

It was Valentine's Day?


So what if I'm a really skinny 16 year old trying to eat more and do some cardio to get some exercise in?

Depends on what you want. If you want big muscles, cut the cardio unless you really want it for the endurance (like Ichis soccer games) and keep eating more until you start growing. The body essentially needs 2 things to grow: stress (exercise), and nutrients to build with. Just don't eat too much trash or you'll get fat. And don't even consider steroids for another 15 years cuz you'll fuck up your hormones doing it too young. Then you'll be paying for hormone therapy for the rest of your life just to not feel like shit every day

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Ashikabi

Just be glad you weren't doing this 10 years ago when windows didn't have most of your standard drivers and shit. Everything is much easier now. Your future troubleshooting will be much faster too. My last tower was assembled and running on the first try. Longest part was installing windows. Over all about 3 hours of work from boxes to installing games. No issues at all. I've only assembled 5 towers

This. I've built PCs going back to the late 80's when components were just becoming available on the open market and building it yourself was half the price of off the shelf. I miss the huge PC shows where vendors came in and sold components (think gun show for computers).

A lot of people don't give Microsoft props for the work they have done on the OS over the years to make it (almost) fully hardware independent.

These days (really since about XP) you can literally take a functioning OS hard drive out of, say a, Dell computer, plug it into a custom built tower with completely different components, and the OS will start up and most components will work, although some may need some tweaking. The OS may not think its licensed (damn DRM) but it will run. That is no easy feat.

It's been a while since I've fully built a computer from the ground up though. Like @Cole hinted at, its usually cheaper to just buy a standard computer and tweak it a bit. The Dell Outlet is a good source for that (deep discounts on their XPS and Alienware lines) that are hard to come close to building yourself.

Primarily the only time I would stick build one any more is if I wanted dual video cards, or some other very specific item. Like I have plans on paper to build a flight sim that will need dual video cards and lots of USB ports. That I'll build, if I ever manage to get around to it.