3 posts tagged “computer”
So yesterday I finally got to buy my new computer after waiting for about a year. Anyhow I met a freind at Yongsan at around 9:50 and parked at the building where he knows a guy. Well, whaddya know the building is closed on this Tuesday. Curses.
Onward to 선인 Plaza. The first shop we went to said that the P5KC was out of stock in the whole building - I was starting to get a bad feeling about that. Anyhow we went a couple of shops down the hall (2036 Hankuk Inwhoe Inc 최덕선 - The shop with the attractive girl who knows tech and speaks English well). This shop had the motherboard and this is where we stopped and picked everything up.
CPU - Q6600
Asus P5KC
DDR2 1G cpc-640a (4x)
VGA ATI HD3850 256mb
HDD 500gb SATAe (2x + 1 more already at home)
650W powersupply
DVD Multi shs 203p
Monitor 22" Topsync (pivot)
Monitor 22" Topsync (no pivot)
and a couple of peripherals
total damage 1.8million
Got home and started assembling it.
With some help from friend, coffee & pizza we got everything assembled. We also swapped out the celeron chip from my old computer and put in a pentium 2.8 chip, switched in some new ram (both courtesy of my friend) and then cleaned out the hordes of dust in there.
Time to install windows right? Wrong!! - won't power up. lights are whizzing, but nothings happening. We worked at it for a while, re-seating the video card, CPU & fan, & Ram - still no go. Off to Yongsan to see what the problem is.'
Well it turns out that one of the RAM sticks was a dud and the whole system wouldn't boot up. Back home, time to install windows, right? Wrong. The damn drive kept giving an error that there was no windows compatible partition available. During the install we would format go to install and be told to format. It was a never ending circle. Even put the drive into my external case and formatted it with my other computer - no go. A little googling and we found a solution that involved copying some files to the boot sector and we additionally ran spinrite on the drive.
Finally got everything running and it is really smooth and quick.
At home I currently have two monitors hooked up to my desktop and find this very productive. However I've been thinking about going to three or four monitors when I buy my new computer at the end of the semester. I was surfing yesterday and found the perfect solution. It's a little expensive, but truly impressive.
On Monday my printer ran out of ink. It was very expensive to replace cartridges and even using third party ink was breaking the bank to the tune of about 120,000 to 150,000 a year. I’d been waiting for the ink to run out, but was hoping it would last to the end of the semester. It was time to replace the printer with a cheaper option. I got a HP C6180 which is a printer, scanner, copier, fax combo unit. This cost me 300,000, but is well worth the expense as it will be infinitely cheaper on ink.
I got a kit conversion done at the shop which ends up with an external ink solution as you can see in the picture below. Each of the ink tubes holds a little more than 100ml of ink. With my old printer it was closer to 30ml for each cartridge and the cost to replace was 30,000 for black and 20,000 for each color. Well now 100ml only costs 5,000
to refill - that works out to about 5% of the cost on ink. A friend of mine has had this exact same printer for about 10 months and prints like he’s running a publishing house and only just this week bought an ink refill. Clearly a cheaper solution.
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