... is assembled and Windoze7 Pro 64bit is installed along with Firefox,
AVG anti-virus & a good hosts file.
Only took 4 trips to CompUSA and one to Interex. Had to buy another case
because my power supply wouldn't fit the first case & there was no power
supply that would fit that gave me sufficient power. I'd calculated I
would need 600W and the largest power supply that would fit. So, I
bought another case that would fit the existing 650W power supply I'd
bought.
The new case had a USB 3.0 header & the motherboard does not have a USB
3.0 header connector, only the 9-pin USB 2.0. The service department at
CompUSA told me there was no adapter to make the USB 3.0 header connect
to the motherboard, nor could I buy a cable with the 9-pin motherboard
connector on one end and female USB on the other. I was basically shit
out of luck.
The guy at Interex took about a minute & a half to figure out what I was
talking about and come up with USB 3.0 header to 9-pin USB 2.0 connector
that fits. I'd buy all my computer stuff from Interex if their prices
weren't 25% higher than the CompUSA store. I just don't have the budget
for that premium. But, if I need work done & can't do it myself, it goes
to Interex's service department.
The boot drive is a "160GB" Hitachi that came out of my laptop that
Windoze sees as 149GB. Am I correct that the difference is because
hard-drive manufacturers count 1000 bytes as a K-byte & Windoze counts
1024 bytes?
Or should I be looking for some hidden partition that's invisible to
Windoze disk manager?
With Windoze 7 installed, I have 87GB free space left on the 149GB drive
(before I installed anything else), so it looks like Windoze 7 took
62GB. I wonder how much of that is actually the OS and how much is crap
I'll never use and would really like to get rid of ... like Internet
Exploder & Media player.
Looks like I'll need to install most of my applications on my 1360GB
(1.5TB) E: drive. I'll eventually add another drive to host Photoshop's
scratch disk, but I haven't decided whether to spring for a SSD or not.
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