taizou @lion@computerfairi.es

first post from the new PC!! hello!! still plenty to do but it is now officially a Functional Computer

The SSD and another fan should come in tomorrow & then I can install an OS and start using it...

I mentioned before but I haven't bought a GPU at this point, I'm going to try it and see how well the integrated one works for general purposes. If it's usable then I'll defer that expense for a bit

@kevin @endrift yeah I found out that's what it was eventually. It has RGB fans on the front with some kind of built in controller & I guess it's for powering that. At least I connected it to the PSU and it all worked and nothing exploded

Okay we are in business

Alright I've matched up all the cables from the case to the motherboard except this one. What the fuck is this. It looks like it'd charge the phone I had in 2003

this case is also bigger than I was expecting! maybe I should've taken measurements lol

it's alive!!!!!!!!!!

Ohhhh the motherboard came with stickers of him....

I didn't realise this cooler would be so fucking big

basically all parts for my new PC except the case and SSD have come in so I could bench test it... but I've had kind of a bad day so if it doesn't work I might cry

PC component retailers packaging tier list so far
F-----: Currys. Thin plastic envelope around dented manufacturers box
D: Orbit. Box with no protection
C: Scan. Bubble envelope
B: VIP via Argos. Thin box with air cushions
A+: Overclockers. Decent box with bubble wrap and free haribo

I bought these mainly to use at home where I mainly use PCs 🥲🥲🥲
Well it seems like I can install a 3rd party driver to support LDAC on Windows... What could possibly go wrong......

HMMMMM okay so these headphones appear to sound worse when connected to a PC compared to my old ones, but better connected to an Android device, as far as I can work out this is because the old ones supported aptX but the new ones only support LDAC which is available on Android but not Windows 🥲

If there's one thing I've learnt from buying a bunch of PC parts lately it's that DPD has really cornered the market on "delivering things Evri can't be trusted with" among UK retailers