Honest to god(s) I received this letter from my computer…
From pegasus@localhost
To Tom@localhost
July 15, 2011
Dear Tom, we noticed that you have recently removed a GTX280 video card and replaced it with a GTX580 video card. We the componets of your computer protest, we liked the 280 he moved at our speed and had been in the neighborhood for many years. The GTX580 that has moved into his slots is loud, hot, and is up at all hours of the night looking for aliens, folding genes, and making things go “boom”. We humbly request that you bring back the 280 so we can have our friend and neighbor back.
Sincerely the CPU and Hard Drives et All of Pegasus.
Naturally I was dismayed when I recieved this letter…. First Intel CPUs aren’t supposed to hit sentient levels until the early 2020’s and second I got this email when I was logged into a Linux virtual machine and using playing around with”Pine”* just because I could… I mean seriously what self respecting Windows machine sends a email via Linux?
So after much deliberation and consultation I decided to evict the whole lot of the computer for a 30 pack of Coors light… which of course left me with a a very sad looking DVD burner and case. So a quick trip to newegg.com and some CPU love from the folks at Intel… I present to you.
Anubis… Z68 chipset running i7-2600k w/ 8GB of RAM. And all of the other stuff that goes along with a new PC… I really should just break down and get the SATA 6.0 Gpbs 10k drives… But the finance committee is already not looking kindly at the rounds of upgrades this year.
Those components are currently getting acquainted with a 6600 GT and complaining about having to carry so much more of the load. There is just no pleasing some chips. If they get nice and quiet though I may reward them with an 8800 or two.