Keeping your components on a rug that surely has some static electricity buildup.
Case was supposed to arrive today but then it didn't. Bleh.
For some reason, it's almost unusably slow right now. I know the i5 6600k and GTX 970 are well past their prime, but it shouldn't be taking upwards of a minute for the start menu to appear. Browsing a basic webpage is basically impossible because doing anything makes itI freeze up. I did cheap out a bit and get a general-purpose HDD, not something made for gaming, but even then it should still be functional. Like, my laptop is weaker in every dimension and works fine.
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I managed to find one just barely above MSRP, and since Valve doesn't want my money (till Q2), here we go
It's a big chungus GPU, that's for sure