Well I don’t see this ever happening again…
In the beginning.
I have been having issues with my PC for a bit, likely down to a failing CPU, it has seemed that way at least, it’s either that or the demands of streaming and trying to play the games I do is just to much but the core count is up and down on the PC so I think it’s the former.
Enter me, I am Raz, I cannot, due to medication and constant pain get a job, being 50 doesn’t help, you kinda get thrown on the scrap heap with a slipped disc in your neck the operation for which offers a 40% chance of success, 60% percent chance of being paralysed are not odds I want to mess with. Add in Fibromyalgia, which if anyone knows about it, they know it is just nasty. It’s pretty much your body torturing you every hour of every day and that will never change.
Pain, as you now see, has moved in, set up camp and takes a shit on my lawn daily.
In order to keep some semblance of sanity I stream, on Twitch, which in of itself is painful, but I love it, I have a small community I want to grow, not least of all to get a little extra cash coming in to help with the cost of living. I wonder, if there is a cost of living, is there a cost to being dead, not to dying we know there is to that, but to being dead…
(These three dots by the way are my written form of me letting my mind wonder off on a tangent, I’ll be right back)
The cash is not the main reason, just a little by product of the fun I get to have, though I am not very good at it honestly. I have swapped and changed what and how I stream so much I lost so much and I am struggling to gain it back but I am going to, I AM! I hope.
Anyway, what I do now, (Stream Xbox Pass updates, highlight some titles, highlight and Indie game or two and play Star Citizen) is pretty intensive and well whatever ails my PC is showing up big time and saying NOPE! It is doing so very loud and very often, to the point that this is not a viable thing.
Enter, lets us for the sake of not releasing his name to the public, call him Efac*, yester year he was my cousin from a parental marriage now defunct, he is and always has been my friend, my longest friend, we have known each other since the dawn of time and will be until the last star fades in the last galaxy in the last universe, in the multiverse.
*For the sake of “the whole story” Efac or Cafe backwards was a name he earned when Efec, Axel (made up name) and myself would play worms, so many, many years ago, so long I have no idea where Axel is now. Anyway, I started naming the characters backwards and so Efac was born as his real first name sounded so like something would call a coffee, and then Cafe was added and then turned backwards, bet you glad I told you THAT story.
Some time later!
I spoke to Efac about my situation and being him, like only he could be, like the legend, the selfless, caring human my friend is, he said “I’ll help you”, me being me and knowing this was probably the last time I could ever do this, as alone I could not, I thanked him for 4 days and accepted.
Time to Order
I went looking for the parts and tried to keep things as low as I could, to make sure that I didn’t loads of his money, I ordered a i9 13th Gen, Mobo, DDR5 RAM and a cooler, I didn’t need the rest having some time back got a 3090 and having 10 million TB of SSD and NVMe storage and great case, 1600 watt PSU (I needed this for an SLI rig a few years back) and so on.
You blithering Idiot!
It turns out the mobo was going to take till hell froze over to arrive and it was a good job too as in my haste to save I brought the wrong one to do what I needed with the storage and other capabilities I needed for everything I ordered and had installed and did etc. Long story short of detail.
I have to start from scratch, turns out the motherboard I wanted was more, £200 more plus as I had started panicking in recent days about building the machine, I have the skill but my hands shake so much on the meds I am on, plus leaning over a PC…well look it was going to be too painful to do OK. I therefore makes sense to get it built and it will also be covered by Scan’s amazing 3DXS support, because their support is amazing.
The 3XS of it All.
I am not going shill out but I am going to evangelise for a second; Scan are amazing and if you are in the UK (I am not sure if you can order beyond the UK) you NEED to use them, their prices are good, stock amazing and you can insure you good against you buggering them up when you install them.
If you get the 3DXS team to build your system, be it a full build or a bundle (CPU, Cooler, RAM etc) they use the best parts from their listing though you can swap out for different parts outside of the list, they almost literally bend over backwards to make sure you are happy.
I mean don’t take the piss of course, I am sure there are limits to their patients and brilliance but I have not found them, honest, check Scan out for your next tech purchase because you will not regret it. I don’t and never do regret it, they have always looked after me and it would take a mighty event to make me stop using them.
Here we are now, here, Today, waiting.
As I wait for the bundle to arrive and my next steps of clearing out the case of the stuff in it now and then putting the new bits in, I contemplate the situation I am in, that fact that despite the fact I am going to pay him back, my streaming future has been assured by a man who, just without a second thought (alright I don’t know what went through his head etc but…) offered to help me get what I needed to carry on, to move forward, to protect the streams future.
I don’t think I mentioned how much the total was, I won’t either, I think everyone know what part cost today but I will say it was no small amount and I simply have this to say to you G;
I have no words to say how grateful I am, no capability to show the gratitude I have and always will for what you have done for me today and…well, I’ll say in the past and he will know what I mean. You are the most selfless, considerate, caring, kind, agreeable (and so much more) human I know, you have been and always will be my friend, you are one of the best people and friends this race of ours has to offer and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Next
So I will be streaming the next few days with current rig and when the new bits arrive I will start the slow, that’s as fast as I can go, process of swapping stuff. Re-install and back to streaming so if you are one of those people who watches me or cares, link below and I will see you soon.