Chore Day, April 10, 2021 -- Upgrading my computer

Besides doing the chores I do every Saturday (laundry and vacuuming), today I upgraded my seven-year old pc. My previous build was in 2014 and it worked out well. I used a high-end cpu that held out for seven years, until it had to deal with some modern applications that need more than 4 cores, in particular, Rebelle 4.

I started by replacing my old motherboard with a shiny new gaming motherboard from Asus, a Ryzen 5600x cpu, and 32GB of ram. Every went smoothly, yet it was a stressful day. I always expect the worst because I’ve had many failed builds in the past. But today I lucked out. Now I can chill out and watch a movie.