{"id":3720,"date":"2011-03-01T19:52:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T00:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2013-10-09T15:28:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T20:28:17","slug":"pc-build-2011-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/?p=3720","title":{"rendered":"PC Build 2011: Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lightbox-pb2d1\" href=\"http:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/gallery3\/var\/albums\/Misc\/2011-PC-Build\/2011_pc_build%20001.jpg?m=1299015922\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/gallery3\/var\/albums\/post\/2011-PC-Build\/2011_pc_build%20001s.jpg?m=1299025051\" title=\"Ahh... aren't they beautiful - and hopefully not DOA. I will be reusing the PSU, SSD, and blu-ray drive (hopefully) from the old Dell.\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"557\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWelcome to PC Build 2011, which I keep typing as 2001 because I&#8217;m old! Today, I will begin the construction of another custom, non-(barf)-Dell PC, using the components seen in the image above and some parts scavenged from said (barf) Dell. Also, because I am lazy, I will not be listing the system specs the cool way.<\/p>\n<p>This build will include some exciting additional steps and new parts to me: a CPU cooler, a 6 Gb\/s hdd, using thermal paste, and switching out front case fans.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox-pb2d1\" href=\"http:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/gallery3\/var\/albums\/Misc\/2011-PC-Build\/2011_pc_build%20002.jpg?m=1299015923\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/gallery3\/var\/albums\/post\/2011-PC-Build\/2011_pc_build%20002s.jpg?m=1299025679\" title=\"Unboxed case, same model as my '09 build except that it includes a SSD... mount\/location\/space.\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"135\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"lightbox-pb2d1\" href=\"http:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/gallery3\/var\/albums\/Misc\/2011-PC-Build\/2011_pc_build%20003.jpg?m=1299015924\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/gallery3\/var\/albums\/post\/2011-PC-Build\/2011_pc_build%20003s.jpg?m=1299026137\" title=\"Side panel off, middle fan mount removed.\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"135\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"lightbox-pb2d1\" href=\"http:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/gallery3\/var\/albums\/Misc\/2011-PC-Build\/2011_pc_build%20004.jpg?m=1299015926\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/gallery3\/var\/albums\/post\/2011-PC-Build\/2011_pc_build%20005s.jpg?m=1299026137\" title=\"Two front case fans replaced to be death-adder-ruby-blood-death red! Not pleased with the white plastic color, and hopefully it will not be too obvious with the LEDs lit. One DVD drive installed, very happy with the color-matching.\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"135\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"lightbox-pb2d1\" href=\"http:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/gallery3\/var\/albums\/Misc\/2011-PC-Build\/2011_pc_build%20005.jpg?m=1299015927\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/gallery3\/var\/albums\/post\/2011-PC-Build\/2011_pc_build%20006s.jpg?m=1299026138\" title=\"That's it for today, the humidity has dropped by 60 percent and I don't want to risk zapping the more sensitive components.\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"135\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to PC Build 2011, which I keep typing as 2001 because I&#8217;m old! Today, I will begin the construction of another custom, non-(barf)-Dell PC, using the components seen in the image above and some parts scavenged from said (barf) Dell. Also, because I am lazy, I will not be listing the system specs the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[71,70],"class_list":["post-3720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-custom","tag-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6133,"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions\/6133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeekescape.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}