Chore Day, April 10, 2021 -- Upgrading my computer

Besides doing the chores I do every Saturday (laundry and vacuuming), today I upgraded my seven-year old pc. My previous build was in 2014 and it worked out well. I used a high-end cpu that held out for seven years, until it had to deal with some modern applications that need more than 4 cores, in particular, Rebelle 4.

I started by replacing my old motherboard with a shiny new gaming motherboard from Asus, a Ryzen 5600x cpu, and 32GB of ram. Every went smoothly, yet it was a stressful day. I always expect the worst because I’ve had many failed builds in the past. But today I lucked out. Now I can chill out and watch a movie.

Page 15, The Kids Mysteriously Wash Up On A Remote Beach

After I created this page I realized I that need to create a prior page to explain how the kids go from getting ejected from their boat to ending up exhausted on a beach. When I change the plot a little, I sometimes have to backtrack and add pages to explain what’s going on.

I sketched the original in Photoshop and did the coloring in Clip Studio Paint.

Big news! After months of doing research, I’ve ordered the components I need to update my 7-year old PC. I order a Ryzen 7 5600X cpu, an ASUS TUF B550 motherboard, 32GB of ram, and a 1TB M.2 drive. I chose the 5600x because of it’s high single-core speed, which is what I need for Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint. I didn’t upgrade my GPU, an old GTX 750 ti.