Ereon Member Posts: 1018 From: Ohio, United States Registered: 04-12-2005 |
It finally happened. My laptop gave up the ghost and passed into eternity. Two of the wires crossed in the jerry-rigged repair job by Dad and I set up and it scorched a hole in the motherboard. Dramatic? Certainly. Unexpected? Not really. Unfortunately though I have no money to buy a new computer of the caliber I require right now, so I'm left stranded and from here on out I'm going to have to do all my work on school computers in the annoying din of the computer game programming lab. In a way I'm glad the blasted thing has finally given up, I was getting tired of it anyway, but for now I guess I'm just a musician without an instrument. In some ways even the old clunker I had was superior to nothing at all. Ah well, even more of a reason to save up for a new one. ------------------ |
Realm Master Member Posts: 1971 From: USA Registered: 05-15-2005 |
Out with the old in with the new. sorry for you loss, but I undersand not minding much because it was so out of date. ------------------ |
Lazarus Member Posts: 1668 From: USA Registered: 06-06-2006 |
How much are you looking to spend on a new one, Ereon? |
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Ereon Member Posts: 1018 From: Ohio, United States Registered: 04-12-2005 |
Looking to spend around 2000 to 2500 perhaps, but first I have to earn the money. ------------------ |
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Lazarus Member Posts: 1668 From: USA Registered: 06-06-2006 |
2500?! If I spent that much on any computer Dad would freeze my bank account...(He did, the last time I paid $1300 for one) |
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Ereon Member Posts: 1018 From: Ohio, United States Registered: 04-12-2005 |
Well keep in mind that I'm going to be working with high end game development tools and stuff like top of the line pixel shaders and program like Maya and such as well. This computer has to last me at least four years in a cutting-edge environment and still be useful once I leave school. ------------------ |
Mack Administrator Posts: 2779 From: Registered: 01-20-2001 |
I met this guy at CGDC04 and he has some nice units: http://www.powernotebooks.com/configure.php?special=503 ------------------ |
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Ereon Member Posts: 1018 From: Ohio, United States Registered: 04-12-2005 |
Thanks Mack, I'll check that out. I was really considering a desktop because of potential expandability, but laptops are always an option. ------------------ |
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Lazarus Member Posts: 1668 From: USA Registered: 06-06-2006 |
Ereon, if you want to save a lot of money get the desktop.. |
PFC Member Posts: 29 From: Canada Registered: 10-16-2007 |
hmm... sounds like my laptop... just last month the motherboard got fried... (it smelt burnt...) so I had a replacement motherboard (second hand, one model up + extra 400MHz) to place the new mother board in I had to do allot of cutting on the case of the laptop since it wasn't a perfect fit. I put it together and turned it on and..... before my eyes, a small flame went across one of the chips... I'm sure it had to do with the connection for the screen moving while I did something...(a short occurred) so anw, by the end of the week I had my third motherboard... again one model higher and 400MHz faster... (YAY) and did many more upgrades to the casing to make the cooling system better. now it worked... until I plugged it into the school network... now by the end of the next week the laptop would randomly shut down. After allot of testing I found the issue to be the CPU over heating. After closer examinations I found the issue to be that the heat paste seal was broken due to the heat sink moving (change in mother board meant pieces didn't fit perfectly). I ended up using cut out parts of a tin lid for a lasagna we ate that night... joined with some electrical tape and copper wire that I cut and bent into small rings (copper wire to hold the heat sink in place) In the end it worked... I was kinda glad the 700mhz motherboard was gone... 1.133GHz is so much better ^-^ still at 16mb of video ram but thats besides the point... lol ------------------ |
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JeTSpice Member Posts: 433 From: La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA Registered: 06-10-2006 |
MacGyver! Cool! |
