Over the last couple of weeks I have had my two main computers fail. One just stopped turning on, and the other became gradually more unreliable, locking up at increasing frequently intervals (sometimes during the initial power on test, before it even got to the memory test). I ordered one prebuilt computer as my primary computer and decided to try building one of my own from parts. The last of the parts arrived a couple of days ago and I got started on the project.
I tried to involve the boys but we didn’t get very far before they wandered off. I don’t know if they got anything out of it other than computer have parts. Despite that, I got the system together and working. The case is an unusual style, we’ll see how it works out. The main difference is the cables come out of the top instead of the back. This allegedly helps with cooling although I preferred because it will go under my desk next to a cable hole so that everything should feed up to the desktop very nicely without sticking out so far from the wall. It also pulls in air from the bottom which should actually help with cooling as when the air conditioning is running that’s where the coolest air will be.
The case is somewhat compact so it was a challenge to get all the cabling placed. It seems to run reasonably well, although time will tell.