… the Jack found something to hang on to,
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… and now … voila, as reward for keeping at his Kung Fu training Message 33637990
My contribution has just been just four,
(1) looked over his bill of materials for reasonableness, iow, whatever is necessary appears to be on the list, and told him to get the roomiest computer box to easily fit all the gadgets in, and get the largest power supply,
(2) authorized payment by giving Jack the 2factor code,
(3) told Jack to keep to good cable-management and good house-keeping during assembly, and do not screw up the BIOS chip, and scratch the disc for drivers, and get code for Windows 11 instead of 10
(4) took him to the computer mall so he can pick out a curved screen, and to ask some questions not answered on the various YouTube computer assembly shows.
I looked at the unboxed parts and the instructions - very daunting, much ambiguity, and lots of secondary research necessary - definitely NOT a Lego set.
He already had to re-do some work not done right the first time, by necessity and not by anyone nagging him. His mother, not IT savvy, is in awe.
The Coconut good-naturedly asked why does Jack get so much computer stuff. I said the ‘stuff’ is the dance studio and lessons Jack is not getting, but should she want computer components I will get her the ‘stuff’ :0)
Amazingly Jack told me what was wrong in the case of the liquid-cooling system / graphics processor interface. As the solution per his research he ordered a $14 item on-line.
Jack’s current computer is over-clocked by 50%. He figured out that any higher clock rate jams up some of his games Message 33642289
Once the new computer is assembled, he shall sell the old one (18 months?) by on-line (he knows where to pawn the stuff) so as to afford the next CPU / GPU chip upgrades to the same plug-compatible mother board and graphics card. He knows what is supposedly to be released for his selected boards by research re upgrade path :0)
The kids playing on-line games are in an arms race. We have two commercial-grade optic fibers coming into the abode, and so all else depends on the computer innards, the keyboard, and the mouse.
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