A new computer?

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Maybe, maybe, I keep looking.  Yeah, my problem, as I said, is that every time I went component hunting I ended up with more in the bag than my wallet would allow.  And with sellers it seems they have a price they want to sell computers, they have components they want to push, and it is even more difficult to get past their "sales", options, or even sometimes not get liquid cooling.  Bleh.  Heck, really, I shouldn't.  And, most likely, I won't.  Honestly, I really can't.  As... if that has stopped me before.  In my small silly little way I have lived a much larger-than-life existence.  Oh, it is only larger when viewed through the optics of a pair of fools epic glasses(tm), though given the constraints it was at least a interesting life.  Not that... that should be the goal?  Yeah, I'm pretty sure that shouldn't be the goal, you lose more than you gain.  Then again and too, I don't think it was ever the goal.  I just couldn't stand still.  I had to see what was over there, who she was, what the fuss was about.  A victim of my own... curiosity?

Never mind.  I just woke up and my mind is walking around doing in thought what I used to do in flesh.  The thing is I found a site that offered a computer build in the price range I think I could handle in the nearer future, or sooner if pressed.  So I went shopping.  NewEgg is my preferred store if I have heard another is good too.  So many... problems though, with a self-build.  Simply the build itself can be somewhere between annoying and hair-pulling sessions (which actually I like until/unless it gets expensive).  Buying all at once means warranties are easier to store together, along with a copy of the receipt.  Buying at one place limits some problems with dealing with multiple venders.  But some components are poison.  Once they are out of the store's stock they just hand out the manufacturer's phone number and wish you luck.  The thing about buying all at once also means that putting the monster together in short order, thus being able to test everything live and on fire, means the chances of the 30 day store warranty on what it does warrant is worth the e-paper it is written on.

So, $1500 was the target price.  Alright.  No double SSD start-up drives (for as much reliability as possible for the unreliable but zipper quick drives).  Check.  Actually, not even a double hard drive system, or even one 10k spin drive.  Check.  A middling cpu and video board, if that leaves room for a top end motherboard to upgrade when prices drop for the currently top end components being foregone.  Check but good enough, easily, for my apps.  I didn't compromise on the case if I didn't get my hearts desire either by half.  I added 16GB memory in 8x2 (if only ddr3 1600), with latency at 9 (good enough for gaming).  I cut and changed and added, and got the price to $1499...  Oh!  But shipping!  That can be murder.  I put that in, fearing a hundred or two, or more?!?  Nope, 3-day pushed that to $1515.32.  Gah!  But am I a man of my convictions?  Well, right now, I'm running like a little girl from her first kiss.  Love hurts...  At least I know it is possible, with a lot of compromise (if still 10 times the machine I have, and fully functional... well that last would be in my fumble bunny hands).  Hmm, no OS though.  Honestly thinking about going PC-BSD though... Gah... hardware... I aimed for PC-BSD but I would have to comb over tons of real (not just general) information on comparability.   I'm also thinking about having a duel or triple OS system, getting in on Linux has always been... a consideration.  And while I don't care for Windows, it offers... comparability the others simply don't, if the security difference is massive.  I would want to... cage any form of Windows I got, perhaps mostly not even allowing it internet access except in very controlled ways for very specific purposes.  The mind does wander in the toy store though doesn't it?

Cats have been fed, I am rested, it's cool enough for at least warm coffee which I am quaffing atm.  Sam has been "let" out.  She started gagging and I started my ogre routine.  She knows that means it's time to go.  She is usually waiting at the door even if I run past her, somehow.  I do pet her, at the door, to let her know I do love her, I just don't want to clean more barf off my carpet.  Even if she is snarfing somewhere I didn't see her, and behind me as I head to the back door, she ends up being there at the door ahead of me and waiting, whisping to the back door ahead of me like smoke.  She is good at... not being seen, heard, or felt.  And I am more than average at detection.  Love that girl for her ways!  Well, obviously, only... some of them.

Good morning, by the way.