Mentor Log #8 April 8, 2013

Individual Time: 0.5 Hours

Running Total: 25.5 hours

I ordered more RAM for my computer today! It was on sale, so I was so happy! Got really cheep RAM that puts my computer at 24gb of RAM now and all 4 slots taken. I ran the RAM by my mentor just to make sure it was the right kind, and it was (just like I thought). Now we wait for it to get here. hehehe

Mentor Log #7 April 3, 2013

Individual Time: 5 Hours
Running Total: 25 hours

My solid state drive came in! :D This made me very excited. I finally got to throw my old hard drive to the side.

The back up proccess took a while. I needed to make sure everything I needed was off of my old hard drive. Once done, I unplugged the other hard drive. The thing about SSDs (solid state drives) is that they are much smalled than normal hard drives, so I needed to mount the SSD into a bracket that would fit in the slot of a normal hard drive. Once done, I connected the power cord from the power supply and the SATA cord that connects to the mother board. The drive was in place! Then I installed the operating system, which didn't take that long since the speed of this drive was increadably fast.

I ran tools that cleared unneeded files from the instalation, and defragmented it. I timed boot up. 11 seconds. It was AWESOME! So happy to have this drive in now.

Mentor Log #6 March 29, 2013

Individual Time: 0 Hours

Running Total: 20 hours

Wrap Up: This week has been pretty awesome. I've been pushing my graphics card a lot to see exactly what it could handle. It can run a lot of games at really high details. I spent many hours using it, but those don't count as hours since it was just messing around. None-the-less, I am very happy with the outcome of this computer. The only thing I can do from here is upgrade the hard drive and maybe the RAM. Speaking of which, my solid state drive is on the way. I can't wait for it to get here so I can finally finish up the computer. Excited!