Speaking of old hard drives, I just got 1 2.5" PATA HDD and 1 2.5" SATA HDD out of two laptops my aunt just scrapped. And 3GiB of DDR3 SODIMM, plus 1GiB of DDR SODIMM RAM... huh. Wonder if I'll ever use those. They're good to have just in case. :3
I've decided that I'm going to try to buy all of the parts for Henen-nesw before Christmas, and do the assembly of the PC during the celebrations after gifts. :3
It'll seem like I'm having a big Christmas when really most of those expensive items I'll have gotten myself. Maybe it'll make it feel more fulfilling :P
Seems like everyone's going to get a competent computer! And all that storage. :D
Also, just saying, but JEDEC (you know, RAM standards?) uses binary GBs. I treat the *iB units as a storage and Wikipedia things, as per xkcd. :P
Now to wait for a good time to purchase my parts. The part list has been updated again, seeing as the i5-4590 is, like, slightly less than $3 more. Heh. Or a Corsair RM550, for the warranty, full modularity, semi-passive mode, and, well, Haswell compatibility. And I'm pretty much left with Cooler Master if I didn't pick a Corsair, too.
People on the Internet seem to have an...enthusiastic attachment to Seasonic and EVGA right now, and I don't get it. They are also parroting that all the Corsairs are junk, too, and...I also don't get it, if proper PSU review sites are of any indication. Even the worst of the Corsairs are still not exploding junk - they should be able to operate in spec on the whole range and not take out anything since they have the proper protections.
The Cooler Master Hyper TX3 looks nice enough given my case, since I can't fit a 212 EVO in there. The stock cooler is mostly enough for stock speeds of a non-overclockable CPU, but why not just drop in a little bit of extra cash for much better cooling? :)
(This does sound weird, but I'd rather avoid double-posting...)