This the second computer I've bought pre-built (the first was in the late 1980s)
- not counting several laptops I've owned over the years.
In between I've built all of my own computers. First off, I'm not impressed with
the build quality. It's got those pretty RGB fans that change color with a glass
front & side. But it wouldn't power on. They forgot to plug the wire from the
power switch into the motherboard, so I had to take the side off to get to it.
The screws that hold the glass side in place don't want to go back in. Two of
them cross threaded immediately.
I'm pretty sure those multi-color fans are going to get old real fast (like
already).
I've been having trouble with the video card on this computer for a while, but
the "chip" shortage and logistics chain bottlenecks & whatever, it was actually
cheaper to buy a whole new pre-built computer than to find a new video card for
this computer.
I bought the card that's in this computer now (8GB) a couple of years ago when I
got a 4K monitor. But back then it was only a couple hundred dollars. The same
card now goes for over a thousand.
Current RANT/tale of woe:
I spent the weekend moving furniture to make room for an additional file cabinet
so the new computer would have a solid surface to sit on. I HURT! I hurt so much
I can barely move.
It's Windoze10 and it came with a 1TB SSD (one of those little cards the size of
a stick of chewing gum). I have at least 3TB of STUFF on this computer I'm going
to have to move over there, so I added a couple of 4TB "spinny" drives.
One of them won't format. I bought four of them for spares for my server & I
decided to go ahead and use two of them for the new computer ... so I've already
got a 25% failure rate out of the box.
My speaker system is not working. That may be a blessing in disguise because I
haven't heard a peep out of Cortana yet.
Can't troubleshoot it until I finish Windoze10 setup (drives formatted).
I suspect the color code on the computer doesn't match the color code on the
wiring harness that connects the computer output to the speaker system input.
Sorting that out is a future problem. I still have to get the new computer
actually running first. Note that I had to hook this one back up temporarily to
get some work done. That ain't an auspicious sign.
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