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Post by Hofmeister on Feb 22, 2017 20:04:24 GMT
My Home PC (one of many) is on its last legs. Takes an age to boot, runs like a dog, the Video codecs are knackered, one of the internal USB hubs keep dropping in and out with a "bing bong", one of the fans is seized and the front panel has dropped off.
Soooooooooo
New computer time. Specced it Monday, Ordered it yesterday, bits arrived today (god bless DPC - love you guys).
I love that butterflies in the belly time, after you have installed the CPU in the motherboard, fitted the memory dimms, put the board in the case, installed the power supply, cabled it up, and your finger hovers over the on/off button. Will all the correct little lights light, the fans gently whir reassuringly, the screen spring into life, or will 500 quids worth of shiny new bits go PHUT in a cloud of smoke.
Well it all went swimmingly, I have a BIOS screen, will fit the drives and fancy bits tomorrow.
Then the fun of OS load, and fixing all the driver errors.
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Post by Rob on Feb 22, 2017 23:14:13 GMT
The new AMD Ryzen CPU's look good - should force Intel to up their game at last and also reduce prices.
What CPU and chipset did you go for Nogbad?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2017 23:18:55 GMT
What did £500 worth of shiny bits get you?
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Post by Hofmeister on Feb 22, 2017 23:22:39 GMT
What did £500 worth of shiny bits get you? I actually got more than 500 quids worth, but thats the value of the bits I have in for a basic power up to BIOS screen Full BoM is 1 x Akasa AK-ICR-11 Internal Six Slot Card Reader with Bluetooth 1 x 430W Corsair Builder Series 430CX 80PLUS Bronze Power Supply 1 x 2TB Toshiba DT01ACA200 3.5" SATA III Hard Drive - HDD 1 x be quiet! Silent Base 800 Black/Orange Mid Tower SILENT Performance Case 1 x Windows 10 Home 64 bit Operating System - DVD 1 x Intel Core i5 6500 3.2GHz Skylake Processor 1 x 23" Asus Full HD IPS LED Monitor - VC239H 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) 3200MHz DDR4 Memory-Black 1 x Asus Z170-E Intel Skylake Motherboard 1 x ASUS Radeon RX 470 STRIX OC Edition STRIX-RX470-O4G-GAMING, 4GB GDDR5 1 x Crucial MX300 1TB SATA 2.5" 7mm (with 9.5mm adapter) Internal SSD 1 x Asus (BW-16D1HT) Blu-Ray Writer, 16x, SATA, Black, BDXL & M-Disc Support,
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2017 23:27:50 GMT
Impressive.
Its hard living in the back of beyond. For example, the local techie shop has just got 240GB SSDs and I swear they're all making the sign of the cross as they pass it.
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Post by Hofmeister on Feb 22, 2017 23:32:14 GMT
the local techie shop has just got 240GB SSDs and I swear they're all making the sign of the cross as they pass it. Well it must seem like voodoo magic down there
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2017 23:38:54 GMT
It really is. Tech here is generally shit quality and old hat.
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Post by Hofmeister on Feb 23, 2017 13:15:01 GMT
And its powered up, all devices installed, Windows 10 loaded. Couple of gotchas to overcome but more or less painless.
Now comes poking and prodding Windows 10 to turn it into something Nooka (who has not progressed beyond Win 7 on the windows path) can get to grips with
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Post by tyrednexited on Feb 23, 2017 14:26:04 GMT
Now comes poking and prodding Windows 10 to turn it into something Nooka (who has not progressed beyond Win 7 on the windows path) can get to grips with ...I really do think Windows 10 is the spawn of the devil. I have my own main machine (self-build approaching 8 years old) on Windows 7, and deliberately chose not to update, given some of the niche legacy software I use on it. My lad's second machine, built by me almost 9 years ago, and now effectively mine since it is down-spec, games-wise, on his newer one, (also built by me, and which he refuses to move to Win 10) got updated to Win 10 as a test-bed, and for the few things that I want to run well away from my main m/c - stop sniggering at the back! The HTPC (another self-build) is still on Win 7, since Windows Media Centre isn't (officially) supported on Win 10, and I have the build nice and stable. It isn't a matter of familiarity, since laptops (his'n hers) have both been upgraded to Win 10, and get quite some use. I simply find Win 7 more controllable, more fixable, less intrusive, and only marginally less responsive. I am, in fact, amazed that the 9 and 8 year old machines are still working entirely satisfactorily, and, despite older motherboard technology, entirely responsively. I simply can't get the man-maths to add up to replacing them, particularly given my preference for Win 7.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2017 16:28:12 GMT
Overall I find that W10 is somewhat more difficult to bend to my will, but requires such bending much less frequently.
Swings & roundabouts.
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Post by Hofmeister on Feb 23, 2017 20:19:20 GMT
It has its annoyances. Who the buck wants Candy Crush and Minecraft provided as standard instead of a decent Media player? at least i have the sense and knowledge to avoid linking the users to a microsoft account.
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Post by tyrednexited on Feb 23, 2017 20:30:19 GMT
It has its annoyances. Who the buck wants Candy Crush and Minecraft provided as standard instead of a decent Media player? at least i have the sense and knowledge to avoid linking the users to a microsoft account. ....and to "un-default" all the privacy settings (and then to repeat the process when they sneakily reset them with an update.....)
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Post by Hofmeister on Feb 23, 2017 20:34:40 GMT
It has its annoyances. Who the buck wants Candy Crush and Minecraft provided as standard instead of a decent Media player? at least i have the sense and knowledge to avoid linking the users to a microsoft account. ....and to "un-default" all the privacy settings (and then to repeat the process when they sneakily reset them with an update.....) yes its not had an update since I unticked them all at install. Also i need to poke about in the registry to kill cortana.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2017 20:38:46 GMT
What is the issue with Cortana?
(BTW, I didn't know I got Minecraft. No. 2 is fanatical about the game).
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Post by Hofmeister on Feb 23, 2017 20:46:51 GMT
What is the issue with Cortana? (BTW, I didn't know I got Minecraft. No. 2 is fanatical about the game). You cant completely destroy the link to "bing" without killing cortana. And you only get get some free levels of minecraft, with in-app purchases to progress. And whats with that poxy 3d builder? WTF's that all about?
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