Benfalk Blog

Needless to say…. today was a mixed bag for sure.  Work was okay today, I spent most of the day preparing a PC for the owner, which didn’t bug me really as I guess I could use a break from some of the coding projects I have been working on.

Through the day I kept eyeing a monitor on NewEgg that I couldn’t resist.  Acer G24 Monitor Specs Needless to say, I eventually broke down and bought one; which I know I shouldn’t have done but I really want to get one.  To justify it I am going to try and find some odd end paying jobs I can pick up to leverage the unexpected cost I put on myself.  After awhile I had no regret of buying the monitor and even now I still don’t have any regret.  When I got home tonight however I began to second guess myself as a real unexpected cost has cropped up =( .  My system is still unstable!!!  We put my old memory in my brothers computer and ran the memory test and my old memory is fine.  Low and behold as well, I am getting memory errors with my new ram.  I put my old Phenom processor in the motherboard and ran the memory tests again to see if they would return and sure enough they did.  I ordered a new motherboard for my system as that is the only other thing right now I can think of that is bad.  So as of tonight I have spent a good chunk of money that I shouldn’t really be spending as the economy is doing terrible right now…

On the plus side, I will be done with my user library tomorrow I’m pretty sure.  I’ve been working on it with my laptop as it is doing fine job of a stand in sitting on top of my computer case.  I have a 15.8 mile race tomorrow morning so I’m heading to bed at 10:20 tonight.  Hopefully tomorrow will be a rewarding day for me.

PS: My faith in AMD is wavering and has completely died with MSI… I think my next system is going to be Intel and ASUS based.