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Funny how used to my computer totally failing I've gotten.

That and Steam and Origin means pretty much all of my games are one short download away from me playing them again instead of having to find the damn CD/DVDs and install them all over again, and most of the saves are online too.

Keeping all my music on an external drive is one of the best ideas I've ever had. Every time my computer has died (which is a lot) it's always perfectly safe and I don't have to worry about dling it all again.

So, it turns out can't activate Windows 7 OEM version unless it's on a fresh hardrive. Gonna have to nuke my hard drive after I transfer anything I find of any importance onto the my external drives. Which is thankfully very little.

Windows 7.

Wire for the case fan got caught on something when I was opening the case and it snapped

I was kind of including drivers in the whole installing Windows bit.

Hey, not my fault the thing had a cheap wire that broke. I did get the whole computer running again, so technically I fixed more than I broke.

Thank God for Amazon Prime. Two day free shipping and a discount.

I broke a case fan....

Whoops.... Forgot to plug in a power cable to the hard drive. Silly me.

....and the hard drive isn't showing up. Fuck.

Got my new PSU and it installed surprisingly without a hitch. Now to install Windows, the part where everything always goes so wrong.

I looked it up. It's in New Jersey, which isn't far from here.

We have Amazon Prime, so pretty much all our stuff shows up within two days anyways.

It was almost like the warehouse was in this state 'cause that's where it first showed up on the tracker.

It's weird. I ordered my Power Source for my computer, and it shipped immediately and it's already on it's way to be delivered. It says 5-7 business days, but it's been 2. What sorcery is this?

That being said, I could still buy two copies of Windows 7 OEM for the price of one copy of the full version Seeing as I don't intend to replace the motherboard for a few years, and it hopefully last bit longer this might actually be cheaper in the long run....

OEM version is much cheaper, but if my motherboard ever dies, I'd have to buy a new version of windows. Normally I'd just risk it, but with my computer failure is always an option, so I'm hesitant to risk it....

I almost bought the wrong version of 7. Did not realize that Windows 7 would cost me $200. That's a little bit much....