When it rains, it pours
2022-Jun-16, Thursday 09:09![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dorchadas
Well, not in Chicago, where it's been 35°C for the last couple days. 
My desktop computer has finally decided to start dying after six years, which is admittedly a pretty good time period for all the original components to work. It's always been a little temperamental, with RAM crashes every time I move it no matter how carefully I do so--even moving it from what was the office (and is not Laila's room) out to the sun nook, a distance of no more than twenty-five feet, caused RAM problems. Fortunately, the solution so far in every single case after the first time has been: 1) Take RAM out 2) put RAM back in. Then it worked fine until I moved it again.
Now there's a problem that I can't solve so easily, though--the GPU fan is going. Right now it still works intermittently, but with squeaking protests and wildly varying RPM, ranging from about 120 and then up to 2500. I could just replace the GPU, especially now that crypto is crashing and prices could come down, but with everything else being six years old and with already-existing RAM trouble I thought it was probably time for me to just upgrade everything.
I have a new computer on order and the case open on my current computer with a small fan blowing on it that's keeping temperatures at about 75°C even when playing games, but this definitely was the worst time for it to happen, with my savings already down due to all the health troubles our family had had in the last year.
My desktop computer has finally decided to start dying after six years, which is admittedly a pretty good time period for all the original components to work. It's always been a little temperamental, with RAM crashes every time I move it no matter how carefully I do so--even moving it from what was the office (and is not Laila's room) out to the sun nook, a distance of no more than twenty-five feet, caused RAM problems. Fortunately, the solution so far in every single case after the first time has been: 1) Take RAM out 2) put RAM back in. Then it worked fine until I moved it again.
Now there's a problem that I can't solve so easily, though--the GPU fan is going. Right now it still works intermittently, but with squeaking protests and wildly varying RPM, ranging from about 120 and then up to 2500. I could just replace the GPU, especially now that crypto is crashing and prices could come down, but with everything else being six years old and with already-existing RAM trouble I thought it was probably time for me to just upgrade everything.
I have a new computer on order and the case open on my current computer with a small fan blowing on it that's keeping temperatures at about 75°C even when playing games, but this definitely was the worst time for it to happen, with my savings already down due to all the health troubles our family had had in the last year.
