studiohack's computer build

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05:51

studiohack has unfrozen this room.

nhinkle

yo

studiohack

yo.

anyways, just bought my case, for $55, hoping to get $10 back with a mail in rebate

nhinkle

so basically, give me a budget for your parts, and i'll send you the requisite funds via paypal. do you have a paypal account set up?

studiohack

the HDDs have almost doubled in price... worried about that.

have a budget, just let me tweak the price on HDDs

nhinkle

ok. take out the GPU for now since we don't know what that'll end up being

if you need to buy a GPU we can add that later

don't worry about the HDD price hike. stuff happens.

studiohack

05:54

@nhinkle that's gonna be a flat $100, not worried about that.

are you willing to cover the case, that I've just bought?

nhinkle

We should probably run everything by Ivo before finalizing, but I don't see why not to.

studiohack

@nhinkle okay

@JourneymanGeek you have write access now.

Journeyman Geek

yay

anyway, from what i've seen, least here, Sata drives have tripled in price. so on the short term, 6 months or so, they probably arn't a good idea

nhinkle

@studiohack do you have any smaller drives you could use temporarily until prices come down?

studiohack

@nhinkle nope... I have a couple of old IDE drives, but I don't trust them, I scrapped them

nhinkle

05:59

Hm. Not even extra laptop drives?

studiohack

@nhinkle a 7-8 year old one that I replaced years and years ago since the OS wouldn't boot.

nhinkle

Hrm. Well that sucks. Oh well.

One consideration is that if @Kronos ever reappears, he might be able to send you one of the SSDs

and you could use that and then get an HDD to suplement once prices come down

studiohack

@nhinkle not a bad idea...

nhinkle

I've had trouble getting in contact with him though. I even sent an email a while ago and didn't hear back.

studiohack

to get it running, bare minimum, no customization, set up, etc, I just need a HDD/SSD (and GPU) @nhinkle @JourneymanGeek

I can borrow monitor/keyboard/mouse

have RAM, and a DVD/CD drive already

nhinkle

06:04

and of course the mobo and proc

studiohack

so my question for you, @nhinkle, is, how much is the Blog willing to cover? the bare minimum? or extra stuff such as keyboard/mouse/monitor, etc?

nhinkle

what all do you actually need to buy? case, hdd... anything else? GPU if it's not free i guess

studiohack

@nhinkle I have processor + mobo + RAM + PSU and case on its way

nhinkle

well i already had all the peripherals

studiohack

did you see my question, @nhinkle?

nhinkle

06:07

sorry - just a sec

multitasking

studiohack

take your time, just wondering if you had cleared the notification w/o seeing it :)

nhinkle

idk about monitor - i bought my own - but keyboard probably if it's a reasonable price. i mean we're not going to get you a $2000 DAS keyboard :P

Journeyman Geek

@studiohack: DVD drive is probably more useful. I might be tossing out the small stack of CD drives i keep.. 'in case'

lol

studiohack

@nhinkle $16 for keyboard - have other mice, so no worries there.

@JourneymanGeek I have an old DVD/CD drive that I can use

nhinkle

@studiohack lol that's fine

Journeyman Geek

06:09

@nhinkle: eh, datahand! ;p, though, i've been using a cheapie logitech set for ages

(very expensive obscure keyboard suggestion made totally in jest... even if i'm temporarily a keyboard expert)

studiohack

$61 USD for keyboard + case. then whatever it is for HDDs, SSDs

Journeyman Geek

just out of curiocity, what case?

studiohack

if the blog can cover that (assuming I get a GPU), I'll be more than happy... everything else on the list (card reader, more RAM) is optional and I can add over time

nhinkle

i'm sure that would be more than feasible @studiohack

studiohack

@JourneymanGeek amazon.com/Antec-Three-Hundred-External-Internal/dp/B000GQMHBI/…

Journeyman Geek

06:12

ooh, nice for the cost

actually, slightly better than the case i have at the moment, and it was slightly more expensive i think (not that i remember how much it cost)

studiohack

@JourneymanGeek getting it for $55 + $10 mail in rebate

so $45, it'll cost...

Journeyman Geek

which is pretty good considering

lots of space for fans!

studiohack

question is, should I try and get a SSD (like a 64GB), and then have the blog pay for a another HDD later?

or shall we wait and see if we can ping KronoS?

nhinkle

i'd hold out on seeing if we hear back from Kronos

he had 2 or 3 OCz drives

said he'd mail me one, but apparently never got around to it

studiohack

@nhinkle all right. shall I draft up something and post the link in here later? (its late on my end)

nhinkle

06:16

Sure, that would be fine. Just let me know :)

studiohack

@nhinkle okay, sounds good! :) let me know what KronoS says, I'll add him to the room's access

nhinkle

k. FWIW he hasn't been around in a while, but we'll see what he says

studiohack

okay... good night @nhinkle @JourneymanGeek! its getting late here, I must be moving on :)

thanks for the help/advice!

Journeyman Geek

night

nhinkle

cheers

studiohack

06:20

forgot to mention this earlier, but I don't have a whole lot of time right now, so I'm collecting parts right now, plan to probably quickly put it together with pictures and such on a free afternoon...and perhaps finish it out more early next year (jan-Feb) and blog about it @nhinkle.

nhinkle

sounds good

i'll be working on an exciting new post soon as well

working on the actual thing the post will be about right now

studiohack

if you guys would rather, I can buy the parts now, and when I actually do blog about it, you guys can reimburse me, if that's more fair

nhinkle

nah it's fine. ivo let me get mine before i'd written much of anything about it, though i had done a load of blogging previously

studiohack

yeah, just have a lot of schoolwork right now, and hopefully will have more time around the end of Jan, or into February...but I intend to blog about it :)

thanks again. catch you later @nhinkle

nhinkle

see ya @studiohack

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