Stupid CompUSA

Sarah wanted me to build her a computer. We've been talking about this for a while now. She has an old one from which we will salvage as much as possible.

We were going to build one in PA when we got together at Rob's wedding. But it didn't happen for various reasons.

I'm now working in Minneapolis, so I said I could see about taking a day off to head up to Duluth where she lives. Today is Saturday - as good a day to take off as any. I figure I'll head over to CompUSA, pick up a motherboard, processor, RAM, and whatever else the budget will allow. I took my time and arrived at CompUSA at around 5 pm only to find out that they're closing the store (I guess they're closing all Minnesota locations). They're having a huge clearance sale, but all the good stuff is already gone. They had one processor, a small selection of RAM, and no motherboards whatsoever.

I bought the processor, a stick of RAM, and a copy of Windows Vista Home Premium.

I should have just stole Vista, but I think Sarah wants a legit license and all that.

The processor I could have got for the same price on the irrnet. The RAM was over priced even with the clearance sale discount and after doing some mo-bo shopping, I don't think they make a motherboard that will use the DDR RAM with the Athlon socket AM2 processor. That's OK though. I can stick the ram in my desktop and get some DDR2 for Sarah.

Now we just need to get a motherboard (and RAM - get 'em at the same time), but all the stores that sell motherboards close at 5 on Saturday. I think I'll just have her order it and call me to come put it all together when it gets there.