I decided to dig into the dead PC because fuck it's sitting here like a lump of shit in its spendy-ass custom case.

Discovered that it'll wake up enough to tell me that the CPU heat alarm is triggered... sometimes. Okay, if it's doing that having sat not moving for a while we'll assume it's the mobo. Especially since I did a power supply test and according to Corsair, the power supply is f'n fine.

Also discovered that Anandtech's prices are per thousand so I don't feel so bad paying $600 for a CPU that supposedly only costs $450.

Also discovered that yeah AMDs are cheaper but only if you're buying bullshit guttertrash chips; up here in the rarified air where our computers work for a living the price difference is pennies.

Also discovered that in 2015 I paid for 128GB of RAM... to put on a motherboard that will only address 64GB.

So on the one hand woot woot I'm about to double my ram for free but on the other hand sweet jesus fuck if you pay for expertise (dipshits actually build PCs for Pro Tools for a living!) you expect to receive it.

Changing out the CPU and motherboard because the options for the socket I've got don't lend themselves to doing this shit one at a time. A thousand dollars later let's see if we can remedy some shit.

Also that KVM was fuckin' $450 in 2016. It was $450 in 2011. It's $450 in 2020 but it's been nine goddamn years so you can buy 'em 2 for $70 off eBay 'cuz bloody hell I be wantin' a spare now.