Friday, February 18, 2011

Fry's Electronics and the Purchases





First, we bought the motherboard; We needed one that was USB3 Compatible, and had a graphics card installed in it already. We bought the GIGABYTE H55M-USB3 for $110 and continued on with the purchases, buying an Intel i5 processor for about 200 dollars. After the processor, we bought the media reader, something that lets the computer read by different medium (i.e. SD card or a usb). We then bought the RAM for the computer, about 4Gb of RAM for the computer, we then bought the monitor for the computer, a View Sonic VA2231W. We already had the tower for the computer, so we already saved about 150-200 bucks on the frame of the tower alone. We also recycled the CD Drives, so that also saved us money. We spent about 5-6 hours trying to figure out what was wrong with the computer, (Yes. I did not work for a while) only to figure out that the hard drive that we had purchased was not compatible with our computer, so we bought a SSD Drive, (Solid State Drive)-P.S. A SSD card is better than a regular hard drive because it's like an oversized USB drive, instead of a spinning disk inside of it, like regular hard drives, it gets the information straight and fast. That was our last Fry's experience, and the drive worked, so far so good! (pictures in order of appearence: 1. Our motherboard, the queen of the computer 2. James posing our new Intel Core i5 CPU. 3. Our old hard drive, that didn't work with the computer.

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