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[dday9]

My wife is absolutely terrified of Alf. She used to have nightmares that he was peeking in her window.

[RobDog888]

Well decided to start building my new system. Spent 1/2 day unboxing stuff and reading the mobo manual. Got stuck as damn case didnt come with enough brass mobo standoffs Now I gotta go back to the other house and rummage through all my computer nuts and screws to get 3 of the proper size. Until tomorrow then..

[RobDog888]

My wife is absolutely terrified of Alf. She used to have nightmares that he was peeking in her window.

Maybe more afraid of aliens and not Alf per se. Hes a celebrity lol

[Trdrego]

Maybe more afraid of aliens and not Alf per se. Hes a celebrity lol

Hahaha that made me chuckle

[RobDog888]

I am boared! Someone entertain me!

[Shaggy Hiker]

Well decided to start building my new system. Spent 1/2 day unboxing stuff and reading the mobo manual. Got stuck as damn case didnt come with enough brass mobo standoffs Now I gotta go back to the other house and rummage through all my computer nuts and screws to get 3 of the proper size. Until tomorrow then..

HA!! Yeah, that sounds mighty familiar. Once there was a day when reading a mobo manual took a minute. I built a system a month or two back, and there were items in the manual that I had to read several times over to even figure out what they were talking about. I made a poor choice on CPU fans, too, as the one I got covers two of the RAM slots. That's ok, for now, as I got 16 GB on two cards, but I won't be going to 32 GB without changing the foolish CPU fan, and since it requires some through-board connections, I can't do that without removing the mobo from the system....and that's too much pain, for now.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I think I got the Creators Update pushed to my work computer this morning. As soon as it turned on, it started installing an update. Normally, that would only take a minute, so I was fine with it. I took the time to go get some water......two hours later, it was still going. I wandered around and chatted with colleagues about this and that. Then I ate lunch early, because there wasn't anything else to do. Shot the morning on an update. Sweet.

[RobDog888]

I found some brass stand offs last night but figured will save it for today.

New system I bought most of the big components for during black Friday sales.

Asus X99 Pro USB 3.1 w/M.2 support
Intel i7 6850K cpu
Corsair H100i v2 water cooling system
G.Skill Trident Z quad channel 32 Gbs ram
Gigabyte GeForce GTX1060 video card
Corsair RM850x PSU
Samsung 840EVO 500GB SSD
Asus BluRay/DVD/CD ROM - DVD burner
Antec case
Windows 10 Pro

[Shaggy Hiker]

I cobbled together a variety of things. My father had a dead computer with a good video card, though not as good as the one you got. I got the same CPU, a good mobo, similar (maybe the same) SSD, and I think it IS an Antec case. However, I only have the 16 GB of RAM, which is a good thing because I can't fit another 16. Doesn't seem to matter, though. Heck, I didn't need what I got, anyways, but I was still running 32-bit OS 7, and really wanted a 64-bit system plus an SSD.

[RobDog888]

I typically dont build new computers very often, I've had this one for many years now. Its a Core 2 Extreme Edition cpu which was fast back in the day but now not so much. My board supports 8 quad channel memory slots so it can go up to 128GBs. Im no baller to afford that much memory lol. Plus I read that with a 32 bit OS it will be limited to 3GBs per memory bank as it cant see beyond that but a 64 bit OS can

[RobDog888]

Packed up my old (current) computer and desk over the weekend and set it up Monday with new 100MB internet service at my wifes (our) house. It always pays to save monitor and flat screen tv boxes for someday you sell them or move its nice to have the peace of mind that no damage will occur

[Shaggy Hiker]

I did an inventory the other day and realized I had 6 functional computers in my house, along with one that was partial. Some of these guys are OLD. One of them, which is still running, has a 3.5" drive in it. I really only use three of them: The main computer, the surface, and the treadmill computer.

I don't have a use for most of them. The treadmill computer (mostly used for watching movies) suffered a minor failure, so I'm going to retire that one.

[dday9]

That is a beautiful desk that you have.

[RobDog888]

That is a beautiful desk that you have.

It was the wifes as I got free reign of the home office

Update: Installed the memory and motherboard but not after much pita work. Had to remove my water cooler fans 3x and finally decided to leave them out until its done. Dropped a freaking tiny screw for the top fan built into the case and it got trapped up there. Tried dislodging it by turning the case over at different angles and even had to shake it to get it free. Then it dropped into my PSU but luckily it came out soon as I turned it over. This whole screw fiasco ended up wreaking havoc on my back when I guess I was shaking the case. Had to take the rest of the day off with meds and a hot pack on it.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Everybody who has ever built a computer feels your pain. There's always that foolish screw that gets somewhere into the case. You can hear it, but you can't get at the darn thing. I was turning my system every which way just trying to figure out where the screw actually was. It would slide around, so I tried to get it to slide to one particular corner....then I'd look and it wouldn't be there.

[RobDog888]

I dont have a magnetic screwdriver to hold those little suckers. Ended up using the wifes cherry chapstick on the tip of the screwdriver to hold them on while I put them into the mobo. Figure when I boot it up its going to send cherry scent all throughout the office LOL

Damn mobo has a terrible design. They have this white plastic shroud covering stuff which doesnt need to be covered. Where the expansion slots are is the white cover. Now 2 mobo mounting screws go there so they made holes through the shroud. Sounds logical but now when mounting a screw you have to perfectly drop it in there or use a magnetic screw driver. If you have to take it out, might as well forget about that

[Shaggy Hiker]

I gave up before trying on one of the screws for my mobo. The location was utterly hopeless in the case I had. A magnetic screwdriver might have made it, or it might have been too awkward an angle for any screwdriver to get to that screw.

[RobDog888]

My OCD will never allow me to leave a screw unscrewed. I had a hard time with being short one of those red paper washers for the mobo.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I had to use a pair of needle nose pliers to "adjust" a certain plug. I wasn't sure whether it would work, but I was pretty confident that I wouldn't do any harm to anything if it failed. Turned out to work pretty well. It seems like some standards either changed, or aren't so standard. In this case, the male part of a jumper had a narrow spacing than the ports on the female end. I had to "widen the stance", but I'm from Idaho, so I know all about that.

[RobDog888]

Did a little work on the new system today. Have all the power cables plugged into the PSU and various other peripherals. All case fans and controls plugged into the mobo too. Just need to install my SSD and then I can work on my cable management, zipping everything up so it looks nice.

[Shaggy Hiker]

In my case, I put the cover back on. That makes it look nice. As long as one of the stray cables doesn't get into a fan, it sounds nice, too.

[RobDog888]

My case has a clear side panel so its visible. I dont want everyone to notice it and make fun of me -_-

[Shaggy Hiker]

My mobo was designed for a clear case install, as it has LOADS of colorful LED lights that do nothing, and one or two that actually do display something useful. Doesn't matter, though, because the computer fits into a slot in the desk such that nobody would get to see all the pretty lights anyways.

[RobDog888]

Went over to my other house today and packed up a mustang car load of "stuff" as I needed to bring back some washers and nuts for a sale. Low and behold I get back and realize I forgot to bring the washers and nuts

[dday9]

I was at a funeral today for a lady who passed away due to a fire. I told my employee not to take a lunch and leave at 4, but whenever I got back to work a quarter till 4 she wasn't here... and I have 6 missed phone calls...

I am livid.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Went over to my other house today and packed up a mustang car load of "stuff" as I needed to bring back some washers and nuts for a sale. Low and behold I get back and realize I forgot to bring the washers and nuts

Oh, you brought back one nut.

[homer13j]

I was at a funeral today for a lady who passed away due to a fire. I told my employee not to take a lunch and leave at 4, but whenever I got back to work a quarter till 4 she wasn't here... and I have 6 missed phone calls...

I am livid.

You should send her over to my place for a good spanking. And other things...

[RobDog888]

You should send her over to my place for a good spanking. And other things...

[RobDog888]

My all time favorite FG clip LOL

[homer13j]

...

No more like this

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[RobDog888]

Didnt see any spankage at all

[szlamany]

Or any grails...

[Shaggy Hiker]

Darn knights, always busting in at the wrong moment.

[RobDog888]

Good morning guys!

[dday9]

!Syug gninrom doog

[dday9]

That was not a palindrome.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Neither is this.

[Shaggy Hiker]

A nut for a jar of tuna.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I do not have aibohphobia, though I now have added that word to my dictionary.

[dday9]

A nut for a jar of tuna.

This is why rep should be allowed in the chit chat.