Hello again bloggers! Excuse the lack of updates, but this author has so many insights into the world of computing that its sometimes difficult to find time to bring all back here!
On that note, lets talk about something other than pure coding:
Hardware.
Yes we're talking about how to build your own computer.
For yours truly it was simple enough. As a gaming enthusiast, one of my favorites is the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Not for the gameplay itself mind you, but for the ability to create your own spin on it via its excellent mod community. And let me tell you, such a hobby will teach you a thing or two about testing discipline, watching out for inter-dependencies, and having a clear plan and backlog to discipline yourself with; a crucial aspect of system design once one graduates to the level of incorporating formal patterns and engineering concepts into their software.
But I've never been much of a hardware kind of guy; I learned how to install a graphics card two years ago and that was it. Yet the need to continuously test eventually won me over into doing my research into the matter. My, the things I have learned!
Where to begin this chronicle? Perhaps by dividing things into chunks first, and working on it from there.
In between so I hope to eventually share what I've been learning about advanced code concepts, ultimately reaching the point where I may present videos on a variety of different topics. Maybe. But for now, lets begin with the Chronicles of a PC Parts Shopper.
Chronicles of a PC Parts Shopper
Where I Was With My Computing - 2011- How I'd gotten my computers in the past. Laptops and what not; my dad's Pavillion, etc.
The First Graphics Card - WOW
- How my Sapphite first blew me away and took me to the land of PC Gaming
- How installation was no different than hooking up a TV.
- How even a grocery store cashier could afford it.
- Dual Monitoring = More Productivity
Research Sites Best Found
- PassMark -
- Game Debate - http://www.game-debate.com/hardware/index.php?list=gfxDesktop
- Amazon.com Shopping
- Include tips on bookmarking this stuff.
- Computer too slow for my needs
- Games like Battlefield and Just Cause, and software like eclispe
- Afraid to too computer off wastes electricity
- Tweaking big pieces of software needs speed; this includes browsers and whatnot.
The Second Graphics Card - Meh
- My first experiences with "Bottlenecks"
- Before 770 (Just Cause and Battlefield): 30 FPS on medium high. After: 40 on only slightly higher settings
- Need new processor, and for that, you need a new CPU.
- Odd colors on HDMI
- Overview: What I'd do over: The order of the parts I bought.
- How snatching the first good deal on a decent motherboard I could fine limited my choices
- Need MORE power or...you no can plug in. Best to overshoot.
- Differences discovered between AMD and NVidia.
- AMD = Price Efficient. NVidia = Power Mad
- The hard choice between 2 GB and 4 GB 770s ~ How everyone pushed me on more speed...and why I'd learn that actually, video ram DOES matter.
- Let the old cards sit somewhere...or maybe sell?
- How I discovered that mid-tower =/= medium.
- Pizza Box, Shoe Box, Desktop, Towers.
- How Towers are WAY more convenient for customizing stuff.
- Good news everyone; they discovered how to make Hard Drives FASTER.
- External Storage and...cloud?
- Who needs more than 8 gigs?
- People like me who like to open way too many tabs WHILE downloading something WHILE being alt+tabbed out on a game, WHILE copying/installing stuff, WHILE dual monitoring some HDMIs.
- Some things I thought I'd need but didn't: Turns out you DON'T need to buy an Ethernet port, that's built in. As is a wireless networking card?
- Start with the CPU first.
- What are slots?
- The reason I have to go 3770k instead of 4770k apparently
- So get CPU First, then its motherboard
- Windows 8.1 Supposedly Faster?
~Code Crunch Corner~
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