Day 41

It's kind of an exciting day here in Quarantineville.   We finally finished our build on a new power-house computer, a hyper-powerful PC to meet the rigorous demands of modern video gaming.

And when I say "our build," I mean I paid someone else to do the actual assembly.  My contributions to the build were more in selecting the specifications and paying for the parts and labor. Someone with a lot more experience than I actually put the beast together.  

But I did assemble the desk, and went and got new speakers, keyboard, wireless mouse, and power strip to complete the setup.  That has to count for something, right?

For you techno-geeks out there, it's got an Intel I5-9600k CPU, a GeForce RTX 2070 Super CPU, 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB solid-state hard drive.  For you non-geeks, that means the improvement on performance from my humble lap-top computer is pretty dramatic.

Here's some hardware porn of the beast's innards.

 

This was not an inexpensive undertaking, but given my retirement status and given the crazy world of 2020 covid lockdown, it's a good investment to help me make the best of staying at home.

I'm still using the laptop for everyday computer uses, including this blog, web browsing, and music, and will more-or-less dedicate the monster PC to video gaming.  At least that's the plan for now.

I had to transfer all my games to the new computer, which actually was pretty easy as they're all stored in the cloud.  For my first game, I downloaded The Outer Worlds, which I already had played late last year but has a new DLC available.  The difference in graphics and motion in the game between the old laptop and the new PC is pretty remarkable.

That's my splurge for 2020, my combined Christmas and birthday present to myself.  Now, if you excuse me, I've got some games to play.