Son&Heir gave me a great present last night. We sat together working on assembling his new computer. He researched and bought all the components (save for Win7 Ultimate, since I had a couple of spare copies to use around twc central–and before anyone goes off on me for providing the evil M$ OS, he’s a gamer with well-developed tastes in gaming, so Windows was just about it, apart from his XBoxes, Wii, and whatever else *heh*).
Lian Li case (watch me drool), really, really nice Core i7 processor, bangup nVidia video with scads of DDR5 memory, 2.5 TB of storage, bunches and bunches of DDR3 system memory, killer power supply, etc. A nice rig. Amusing to check Device Manager and see it reporting 8 processors running at ~3Ghz each. No, it’s not an “Octacore” *heh*. Of course that’s just four hyper-threaded cores looking like eight cores to Windows.
He’s quite a guy, and he really deserves this really, really nice box. After he racked out (his day began around 3:00 a.m., so he was pretty tuckered out by 8:30 or so), I installed Win7, performed all the updates, installed and configured the necessary security software, tweaked the system a bit and then hit the sack myself.
Fun working on it with him and drooling over parts (the case is just about perfect for a mid-tower case; just screams yummy goodness :-)), anticipating the pleasure he’ll have using it, and enjoying… his presence.
One of the nicest Christmas Eves in a few years.
That’s so nice – spending time with family actually building something together. I’m sure you two had great conversation while you were at it.
The best kind of gift 🙂
I’m glad it was a Merry Christmas for you. We had one of the best in years here in the Pacific Northwest. A nice family Christmas sure is a good contrast to the general mood outside.
“…a good contrast to the general mood outside.”
Indeed, Perri.
Yeah; treasure those special times, my friend. Won’t be all that long from now when he’s packing you off to a nursing home, then making an entry on FaceTwitter about how much fun it was to spend some time with good old Dad. Sniff.
Anyways, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.