If you’ve ever been in a crunch-time tech troubleshooting situation (or any situation in which you’ve required the knowledge of others), you’ve probably used a forum to help you find the information you need.
The problem that I’ve often found with forums is the countless
So far, I’ve listed all the components and installed the power supply in my case. Now comes the fun part… the mother board and CPU install
Here’s the motherboard, it’s an Intel BOXDX58SO2 Socket LGA 1366
As you can see, I’ve laid the Intel i7 CPU into the motherboard and just to the right of that, the 2x4GB of RAM have been inserted into the 1st RAM channel. (I will insert more in the near future as needed)
The last component to be installed onto the mother board is the video card. I will do this right after I install the motherboard into the case.
Motherboard installed in the case
Now I’ll install the Video card
Next post I will cover installing the cooling system (involving some serious modification), the Hard Drive, and the peripheral devices.
Alright, every component has received adequate attention and is now ready to be assembled. I figure I may as well introduce them all so you have an idea of what’s exactly being put together here:
Case: NZXT Tempest ATX Mid-Tower
Power Supply: Cooler Master Silent Pro 1000W
Mother Board: Intel BOXDX58SO2 Socket LGA 1366
RAM: Kingston HyperX Genesis 8GB (2 x 4GB)
Processor: Intel Core i7-960 3.20 GHz (Soon to be cllocked to 3.46GHz)
Cooling Unit: Corsair Hydro H50 CPU Liquid Cooling Unit
Hard Drive: Seagate 1.5TB SATA-6G
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GT430
Optical Drive: Plextor 24X DVDRW w/ Lightscribe
Monitor: Samsung 27” LED SyncMaster
Keyboard: Logitech Wireless K80 Illuminated
Mouse: Microsoft Mobile Wireless 4000
Well, now that all the components are accounted for, they need a proper home. Let’s take a look at mounting the power supply in the case. So, empty case first…
Introduce power supply…
Now marry them. This particular case calls for mounting the power supply in the bottom of the unit. Many cases have top-mounted power supplies but I prefer the stability of having the weight at the bottom…
Next I’ll take a look at the motherboard, mount the processor, RAM and finally install it in the case…
Thus begins the short and rewarding journey that is my cpu build. I ordered all the parts from Tiger Direct and that proved to be a great choice.
So first things first: I received the parts and proceeded to jump up and down like a kid in a candy store… NOT kidding
Be back after I open and admire all the pieces!
With all the hype around HTML5, the new JavaScript APIs, and CSS3, it’s a wonder more companies aren’t calling and wanting their sites updated. Seriously, if you haven’t seen what HTML5 and all it’s children can do, you need to check this out.
So, as I said, it’s a wonder that more people aren’t moving to HTML5 right now! Fear of the unknown may be one excuse for some. My bet is on browser compatibility issues. Ahhh, yes… Legacy browsers such as IE 6, 7, and 8 don’t support HTML5, and IE 9 has holes in it as well. I guess we can’t use it then right? WRONG!
My good friends over at Modernizr.com have created a JavaScript feature detection library that allows you to start using HTML5 today! By running Modernizr on your web pages, you can create test cases and fallbacks for older browsers. Not only can you get HTML5 running on today’s browsers, but you can add in JavaScript “polyfills” (fancy name for scripts and functions) to backdate HTML5 to the stone age (exaggeration).
So if you’re like me and you want to take advantage of HTML5’s bells and whistles but are nervous about older browsers, grab Modernizr and do it big because you don’t know what you’re missing!
These past couple of weeks have been absolutely crazy and stressful, and that’s just the way I like it.
Over the last 2 weeks, I have been offered and accepted 3 web design/development contracts, finished an e-commerce site for Google, started working on an interactive HTML5 site for 3M, am taking 16 credits towards my BS in Web Application Development, and am starting development on a site that needs to be done on Thursday of this week. CRUNCH TIME!
But I would rather find myself on this end of the unemployment situation and feel very blessed for the position I’m in at this point. God is good
If it seems that I’ve been hinting that I’m interested in web design/devlopment, it might be due to the fact that I… ummm…AM!!! Be that as it may, the Holidays are quickly approaching and I came across this wonderful list of web design books from .NET Magazine.
If you or someone you know is interested in web design or web development (building websites), these books would serve as absolutely fantastic gifts that will help them along in their quest.
Thanks to .NET Magazine, for the list.
How oldschool is this? Name that year
It’s not about the war, it’s about the Warrior…
3) Building just one site
So many companies have a mobile version of their site which means they paid twice for the same site!
2) No device constraints
A truly responsive site design allows for true readability and user-experience regardless of how small or large the device display is. With traffic coming from more and more mobile devices everyday, this is becoming increasingly important.
1) Content Accessibility
You may think that your site is responsive because it scales down and fits on a mobile device. The question is readability. Must you zoom in to read the verbiage or see images? Further, must you scroll left to right to see the entire page? If so, then your site is far from responsive. Getting traffic to your site is one thing. Keeping traffic on your site is another, and if a user has to work hard to digest your content, consider it a loss.
That is where responsive design shines. Getting your site’s content to visitors in the most convenient form to them.
Don’t do your consumers a disservice. Check out Foundation today to get started or visit my site and drop me a line if you have any questions.
