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Adult legos
With a lot of help from Z, I have now built my first PC!
We did spend quite a while trying to figure out why it wouldn't turn on at first - thankfully, it was a simple fix (we plugged the GPU into the wrong power cable). It still needs a network card, but today we went and got a new monitor, and since they had a 4k one on sale for about the same price as an HD one, I decided to try it, and it's so pretty! So many pixels. Color balancing is better than whatever nonsense I have going on with the other monitor, too.
So far I have only really played around with the Sims 2 (it loads like lightning!) and Fallout 4, where I have been steadily loading up texture mods onto my save from a good five years ago. The keyboard on my laptop was slowly starting to go, so honestly, it's nice just to have a keyboard where I can use the numpad and consistently get equals signs, haha. It's been hanging out in the living room since we finished putting it together, which has made Z (who keeps his desktop there) very happy, but I will probably take it to my office this weekend while he's gone since sitting at a coffee table is kind of killing my knees. Really excited to use the heck out of this thing! I do owe an AMV for Sunshine Auction, and I'm feeling pretty motivated to work on it with my new setup :D
I will be getting away from it this weekend, though - I want to go to the local Christmas market, and I also finally got my skates to and from the fitter, so I'm going to see if the adjustments they did helped. I'm crossing my fingers... I miss skating!
We did spend quite a while trying to figure out why it wouldn't turn on at first - thankfully, it was a simple fix (we plugged the GPU into the wrong power cable). It still needs a network card, but today we went and got a new monitor, and since they had a 4k one on sale for about the same price as an HD one, I decided to try it, and it's so pretty! So many pixels. Color balancing is better than whatever nonsense I have going on with the other monitor, too.
So far I have only really played around with the Sims 2 (it loads like lightning!) and Fallout 4, where I have been steadily loading up texture mods onto my save from a good five years ago. The keyboard on my laptop was slowly starting to go, so honestly, it's nice just to have a keyboard where I can use the numpad and consistently get equals signs, haha. It's been hanging out in the living room since we finished putting it together, which has made Z (who keeps his desktop there) very happy, but I will probably take it to my office this weekend while he's gone since sitting at a coffee table is kind of killing my knees. Really excited to use the heck out of this thing! I do owe an AMV for Sunshine Auction, and I'm feeling pretty motivated to work on it with my new setup :D
I will be getting away from it this weekend, though - I want to go to the local Christmas market, and I also finally got my skates to and from the fitter, so I'm going to see if the adjustments they did helped. I'm crossing my fingers... I miss skating!