Computer struggle update

The pieces for the new computer arrived last night and it was all very exciting - the new cobalt-blue case is about an inch deeper than the old one, and while this doesn't sound like much it gives all the drives and cables a lot more space to be comfortable in. The near-toolless design sounded like a decent idea on paper, but in reality the locks don't really work all that well and everything is prone to sliding about a bit if you push on it hard enough. Just about everything got set up smoothly, except when I was transferring in my giant CPU fan, I put far too much thermal paste on and had to clear the excess dripping around the socket, but thankfully it doesn't seem to have damaged it or the motherboard. It definitely turns on and POSTs.

The greater problem is that I hadn't counted on my memory being a further victim of the complete obsolescence of the computer that I put together only three years ago - I have DDR2 memory and the new motherboard has DDR3 slots, which the old memory won't fit into. This is actually just as well, because the voltages of the two types are also different, so the change is to prevent people like me from inserting it anyway and blowing it across the room.

So I've sent off for yet another parcel from Tiger Direct. If my budget expands another couple of hundred dollars, I could have spent the money on Steve Jobs' latest offering instead - let's do another content-locked Flashless tablet by putting the old one under a magnifying glass and naming it after a popular type of feminine hygiene product.