Cheap Upgrade!

Local guy posted an ad selling a computer for $250... It was an i7-3930K cooled by a Zalman CNPS12X on an ASUS P9X79 with 4x4GB of PC3-12800 RAM in quad-channel, a Cooler Master G750M, and a Plextor PX-L890SA, all in an iStarUSA D-400 rackmount case... Yeah, for $250.

It also included a passively-cooled 1GB Gigabyte Radeon 5450, two 7200RPM hard drives (500GB and 1TB), PCIe FireWire 800 and 802.11n cards, and a Windows 7 Pro license, but those are less exciting.

Parting that stuff out on eBay adds-up to around $1000 right now; the case alone is selling for almost $250, and that motherboard is averaging over $300... Like, holy shit.

I don't have a rack system, so I moved just about everything into one of my Lian Li cases added my SSD and GTX 780; left-out the 5450, PCIe cards, and the 500GB HDD, and then... Yeah, at worst it's a cheap upgrade, and at best I'm gonna make money on this :)

Finally found a good use for crates in an FPS...

The Reckoning looks bland throughout; like, so very, very brown... And yet it's a tight single-player campaign with a solid climax! The crate-jumping puzzles especially stand-out as a neat sort of minigame throughout, too... Weird. Ground Zero makes way better use of colour and the level design is labyrinthine in a good way, but the new weapons're kinda meh and the wall-mounted lasers're waaay too powerful. The whole thing feels a bit like a slog next to the Reckoning, but I'm still glad I went back and played through both.

Otherwise, I'm getting in the core of Ys VIII, ReCore: Definitive Edition is up next, and I've been spending way too much time fixing people's failing computers this past week like something cosmic :\