One year, three months, and one week. That’s how long the Library survived. You see, I made a fatal flaw in it’s assembly. I never included an improved heat sink for the processor. To make a long story short, some things happened and they were bad.
So I’ve been instructed by controlling interests to put a full list of parts together, and calculate the costs. As mentioned previously, “the Reliquary” is not [expletive] cheap. Original estimations were a little bit short. By about seven chickens.
That’s some flashback humor that maybe five people would ever get, but that’s the kind of mood I’m in.
Anyhow, the Reliquary is looking at about $1,954.89 or so. Plus tax. And shipping. Putting it at $2,134.92 all told.
Okay, so maybe it was ten chickens.
Now, this is also based on a really nice layout;
EVGA X58 FTW3 ATX Intel Motherboard [1]
Intel Core i7-960 Bloomfield 3.2GHz LGA 1366 [1]
Zalman CNPS9900MAX-B 135mm CPU Cooler [1] ( Thinking ahead this time )
Corsair Vengeance 12GB Triple Channel DDR3 SDRAM 1600 (3 x 4GB) [2]
EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB 256-Bit GDDR5 [2]
Western Digital Caviar Black 7200rpm 1TB SATA 6.0GB/s [2]
ASUS Blu-ray Burner BW-12B1LT [1]
Corsair CMPSU-850TX 850W Power Supply [1]
It’s a tough pill to swallow all told, but really, it’s a nice piece of machinery when it’d be completed. RAID, SLi, computer happiness. Well in the mean time I need to get the Library working well enough to hold me over until I can build up the scratch. For the record, that pun there was not related to the flashback humor, it just worked out that way. Anyhow, I deemed that the best way to pull this off was to purchase a heat sink. And I did! And it shipped! And it got here in a day!
Except even though it’s designed to fit my case, and fit my motherboard and chip set, the way my motherboard is put into my case, the holes on the back board of my case do NOT match up with the screws for the mount for the heat sink. Awesome, can’t use it yet. And in the process of pulling out the original heat sink that came with my processor?
I broke the clips off of it.
[Expletive] jimmied. Now I can’t put it back on to even use my computer in the semi-functional state it HAD been in. I can either modify the case, or I can replace the case. Options are not pleasant in either direction. I’ve gathered $300, and at this point I’ve already spent an extra $60 on the heat sink I was going to put into the Library. Keeping it running is getting pricey.
If I cut down the duplicate components– no RAID, no SLi, half RAM capability –I’m effectively doing the same thing I did with the Library in the first place; buying half the computer I want, hoping I’ll be able to get the rest of the pieces before they’re unavailable, and then never really getting them. I’m already passing up on new dual monitors, I’m not picking up a keyboard, and I’m not replacing Pointdexter 2.0 [the term of endearment I’d given the mouse] despite dire need. Still, cutting down drops the total price to $1,570.73. That puts me at a fifth compared to a seventh, but it took me from Christmas to get the $300 I’ve got.
I’m hoping to get everything built up a little faster, but in the mean time I’m going to be stuck using the laptop when it isn’t in use.
The irony there is that I was also thinking about picking up a [netbook / laptop / tablet], but now I know where that money is going instead.
— Vid