Cooler didn't arrive until after dinner. If I were twenty years younger I'd have stayed up all night. 😆
As I suspect a lot of people are doing, I'm going to keep using my existing graphics card until RTX 5000 series drops in January. Everything else is new, though. First build in seven years.
One of the most exciting times owning a computer for me is where you are right now. When everything arrives, and it's still in all the fancy packaging, and you're mapping out the build in your mind. I can't tell from the picture, which CPU did you get?
Edit: can you believe HDD these days? I'm still amazed every time I pull an NVMe HDD out of the packaging. Absolutely mind-blowing. My first computer had an spinning drive connected through molex and IDE cables.
My first computer didn't have hard drive at all. 5.25" floppy drives.
My first PC with a hard drive used an ST-506 interface w/molex and data and control cables. 40MB. I couldn't imagine ever filling the whole thing.
It's all so much easier now.
Damn, I'm old.
Oh yeah, I meant the first computer I built myself from scratch. My actual first computer was a Commodore 64, and then an IBM clone 386, and eventually a powerhouse 486. It's mind-blowing how far things have advanced, especially if you consider things like ChatGPT, which is essentially the Star Trek computer actualized in the real world.
Yup pretty wild. We've come a long way. CPU is a 9800x3D.
Very nice!
FYI: HDD is short for hard drive. So calling an SSD a hard drive doesn't make a lot of sense since they are by definition different things.
Calling an SSD a hard drive makes sense but calling it a HDD doesn't because HDD means hard disk drive and an SSD doesn't have disks
Nah, just call an SSD an SSD (or solid-state drive if you got lots of time and like being overly verbose) or just storage device or similar synonym.
A hard disk drive is called that because it contains hard disks as opposed to earlier storage mediums which often had soft (or floppy) disks. Hard drive is just a shorter and easier way to say hard disk drive.
Hard doesn't refer to the fact that the outer shell is hard, because of course it is.
So since SSDs don't contain any disks, it doesn't make a lot of sense to call them hard when they are in fact nonexistent.
Never said anything bout shells. The definition of hard drives predates SSDs, back then you had soft media like a floppy disk and tapes, so by it's original definition, an SSD is a hard drive. Ofc nowadays we had to accommodate for the changes and there is little reason to say just hard drive since soft media is not widely used anymore
Why are you just repeating what I said? Of course the definition of hard disk drives (and thus hard drives) predats SSDs. That's why SSDs aren't referred to as hard drives. Hard disk drives are called that because their disks are hard.
Please show me your "original definition" because I don't come to the same conclusion.
"Hard drive" is just a quicker and easier way to say "hard disk drive". I honestly don't think I have ever heard someone actually say "hard disk drive" everyone shortens it to "hard drive". "Hard drive" = "hard disk drive" "Hard drive" != Any non soft storage media.
You could call SSDs, "solid drives" if you like, but they for sure aren't hard drives even if people often confuse the two.
Also I'm just curious, do you call CDs or vinyls hard disks? I mean they store data and they are technically hard disks (or discs, whichever spelling you prefer).
Merriam webster defines it in the same way and according to them that was how it was defined in 1982 when the word first came into use: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard%20drive#h1
The only definition I could find where hard drive means anything else is from the Cambridge dictionary "learners dictionary" https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/learner-english/hard-drive
Their normal dictionary has the same definition as everybody else: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/hard-drive
Huh, I always thought it stood for hard drive device, which can be used universally. It's still easier to type HDD on a phone keypad than hard drive though, which is why I used it.