My husband has needed me to put in a new hard drive for his desktop for a while. (For so long, I honestly forgot he gave the tower and drive to his brother to install it.) I work a lot, and so does his brother, needless to say, his brother has had the tower for 18 months, it was still not done.
I last upgraded this computer 18 months ago,before the Hard drive got corrupted somehow. Bought a new power supply, and graphics card, no big deal. I set it up on Thursday night, and realized, this this was maybe more outdated than I thought, I should have guessed it was, as the RAM was still DDR2 ( don't judge, it was built like 10 years ago originally, it worked for Diablo 2, and Facebook). Other than needing up graded, when something sits open for like 2 years, it gets dirty Af.
The Inputs and outputs were also gone, and most of the UBS ports were just dead and out dated, I think only the front two were even 2.0. No 3.0 or 3.1 was even on this old PC. Once I seen the mess, and how out dated it was, I knew we had to get some new parts going.
We headed to Micro Center and picked up a new Mother Board, Case, Fans, Solid State Drive, some LED's for the inside, new Processor, and new RAM. (only 8 gigs that day, as they only had one left :'( ). Got it all home, and then started gutting the old PC while my two toddlers ran around and my 10 year old helped me disassemble and clean when we were keeping. She was also completely disgusted with the inside of the old PC, and decided she no longer wanted this one in her room when I got a new power supply. She wanted to build a whole new one with me as well.
Wasn't too bad to get out what I wanted, I didn't even notice initially that the new case did not have a place for the DVD/Blue-ray drive, which doesn't matter, as all our stuff is digital down load anyhow, but it has been SO long since I put one together, all i could think of was "WTF am I going to get the OS on here". Father in law to the rescue, USB.... duh...... total blonde moment.
It only took about an hour and a half to get everything put together and ready to go. We had my father in law look over it before we booted up. I think mostly because my Husband did not trust I had built a PC before, and he wanted to make sure "It's doesn't like, you know, blow up". hahaha, which was just funny to me.
I ran back for three more fans on Friday, and installed them Friday night. I figured since I could fit two more on top I would, and I also forgot the rear fan. 
Over all we had a great time building a new PC, and everything works great!
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