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On why you should troubleshoot everything. Part 1

 The theme for today is a deviation from what I planned originally, but recent events just screamed at me "Rant on the internet!" too loud for me to ignore. Seeing how I swore off Facebook and Twitter, the onus falls over this blog to let me vent. Seeing as how the best comedy is another's tragedy, let's set the scene already.

Recently - less than a month - I decided to change my rig. All my life I had used laptops, as the mobility was crucial. Unfortunately, the nature of my work - and my cheapness, let's be real - made it so I either burned over the poor components or simply didn't met my expectations. The last one I bought was treated like it was made of glass and I used all the tricks I could to prolong it's lifetime and prevent the system from deteriorating much.

Things have changed however. I no longer need a "bring to everywhere" system, and I wanted to invest a bit on something top quality and upgradable. I wont bore you with the specs, but the crucial part here is that I opted for a RTX 2070 (MSI if you were curious). I also assembled it myself.

Hell on earth I tell ya.

Before last month I had never seen a single PC build. I had no idea of what brands to look out for, what were the usual market places, etc. On my hubris, I assembled a system that while it met my expectations, I'm pretty sure it was a bit pricier than what I could find with more care. Heck, today I realized NVIDIA sells premade desktops and workstations with the specs I needed (gaming was not the top of that list actually) for the same price I bought everything separate. Food for thought next time, though hoping it'd be at least half a decade before I need to build something again.

I had some troubles assembling, particularly with the card installation. Cable management was tricky as the PSU had cable-length on the short end. All in all, I used up almost two full days to put everything okay.

After getting all giddy once the system booted and that sweet, sweet POST completed, I started the painstakingly process of installing everything I needed. Painstakingly not because of difficulty, but because I can only reach like 1MB of download speed consistently. There went my dreams of streaming.

Anyway, there were no hiccups in this process. I searched for the W10 license my school had graciously offered years back, got an ISO that was thankfully 2004 and updates were no bigger than a couple of GB. Downloaded drivers for the mobo and card and voilà. Everything seemed to work perfectly.

Oh you sweet, sweet summer child, my present self mocks. But that's a story for tomorrow, as this already got lengthy.

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