repair or replace?
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If that GPU works for your games now, it will work with the new rig. Sounds like you’ve got plenty of experience building your own computers. Make sure the new mobo has a slot that will accept your GPU, but I expect you’ve already thought of that. One more note, if you get a mobo that has an M.2 slot that supports PCIe x4, it would be good to get a compatible M.2 SSD. You can get a 500Gb Samsung 970 EVO drive for a ridiculously low $70 on Amazon. That drive, in a compatible slot, is unbelievably fast. Like 6x faster than a SATA drive. I’ve put nothing but M.2 PCIe drives in all my builds for the past few years. You’ll need a Windows license too. I’ve been buying Win10 Pro OEM licenses (actually, all I buy is the activation code) from various people on eBay for around $30-$40. So far, I haven’t gotten burned on one.
I've been building my own PCs for 25 years. That doesn't mean I'm an expert, as I don't do it all that often, and it gets harder over time as their are SOOO many new technologies and choices! So I research things and learn, and have the experience to figure things out. Plus threads like this help a lot. The new MOBO covers everything I need. I went through the specs of 2+ dozen boards before deciding. I've been looking at this, off-n-on, since last summer. Yow! The price on that M2 is great! However, I'm considering getting the 1 TB for $115 USD, as in the long term a larger drive is more useful. Gotta talk to the budget director (AKA wife) about this. Windows licensing is not an issue, as a have a multi-activation key through Windows Dev Essentials. Once a key is claimed, it's yours. I just checked the key for Win10 also works for Win11
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I've been building my own PCs for 25 years. That doesn't mean I'm an expert, as I don't do it all that often, and it gets harder over time as their are SOOO many new technologies and choices! So I research things and learn, and have the experience to figure things out. Plus threads like this help a lot. The new MOBO covers everything I need. I went through the specs of 2+ dozen boards before deciding. I've been looking at this, off-n-on, since last summer. Yow! The price on that M2 is great! However, I'm considering getting the 1 TB for $115 USD, as in the long term a larger drive is more useful. Gotta talk to the budget director (AKA wife) about this. Windows licensing is not an issue, as a have a multi-activation key through Windows Dev Essentials. Once a key is claimed, it's yours. I just checked the key for Win10 also works for Win11
Disk benchmarks on SATA-connected SSDs usually top out in the 550MB/s range. Magnetic spinners top out around 200MB/s (sequential read/write, they are terrible at random operations). M.2 PCIe SSDs top out around 3600MB/s. The difference in response for disk-intensive applications is very noticeable. If you still have spinners, it's likely they are the main bottleneck for overall performance, especially with the new MOBO, CPU and memory. I've been replacing spinning hard drives with SSDs in laptops for friends and family for several years. The difference in performance is noticeable, even if the replacement is just SATA. My "budget director" is still using a 10-year-old laptop that I swapped disks on and is happy with it (went from a 5400RPM spinner to a SATA SSD). Cost less that $70 to make it almost like a new laptop.
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Yes RAM reseating often works. You haven't mention the first most important thing and that is what do you use it for and neither the second thing what are the specifications - make, model, motherboard, CPU, RAM speed, etc. oh and what operating system? Replacing the hard drive with an SSD always speeds up the older computers.
This PC is my everything PC. Gaming, programming, and general use. Gaming & programming drive the hardware, especially gaming and video. My final choice is a an AMD Ryzen 5 5600X. I considered other models, looked at benchmarking and reviews, and finally at price. It seemed like the best bang for the buck, and one that I'll have no problem using 5 years from now. RAM is 3200 -- that's what the MB and CPU are rated for, so getting faster didn't make sense. MB is an Asus, but depending on ship date, I may have to make a different choice.
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This PC is my everything PC. Gaming, programming, and general use. Gaming & programming drive the hardware, especially gaming and video. My final choice is a an AMD Ryzen 5 5600X. I considered other models, looked at benchmarking and reviews, and finally at price. It seemed like the best bang for the buck, and one that I'll have no problem using 5 years from now. RAM is 3200 -- that's what the MB and CPU are rated for, so getting faster didn't make sense. MB is an Asus, but depending on ship date, I may have to make a different choice.
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Define "haven't been pleased." Please with what? You've picked about the worst time to build a new PC. Prices are high, and supply is short and even impossible to get. You can't find a video card anywhere on the planet. You're in line behind more than a million (not an exaggeration!) other people waiting for video cards.
Asking questions is a skill CodeProject Forum Guidelines Google: C# How to debug code Seriously, go read these articles.
Dave KreskowiakDo you know if this shortage of video cards (and their ridiculous prices) has to do with their intensive usage for crypto mining? Or is just the need for gaming - the raison d'être of 'computers' for more and more people? Because I - not being interested in either perversion - could happily live with what the motherboard itself has to offer in terms of video and sound. At least for a good while.
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Do you know if this shortage of video cards (and their ridiculous prices) has to do with their intensive usage for crypto mining? Or is just the need for gaming - the raison d'être of 'computers' for more and more people? Because I - not being interested in either perversion - could happily live with what the motherboard itself has to offer in terms of video and sound. At least for a good while.
Miners are buying them up by the pallet.
Asking questions is a skill CodeProject Forum Guidelines Google: C# How to debug code Seriously, go read these articles.
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I have old Laptop RAM floating around... You might look around for used. Someone probably has some shelved (welcome to 2022)! FWIW, Once a machine hits 2yrs, I try to buy an off-lease cold spare. My previous cold spare is sitting on the shelf. I am close to getting one. I've been taken down HARD before. I fresh install is about 80hrs of my time. [Supporting Software from 25+ years ago]. Moved to VMs, so it might be down to 40hrs. Eventually, I guess my Dev machine(s) will be in the Cloud, and I will just remote into them. Why do I picture an X-Windows Like World?
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You sound like my lost development brother :)
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
LOL. No, just old enough to have watched HDDs fail. Lost a RAID because a drive failed while the previously failed drive was still repairing (learned not to use drives from the same batch!). Had SSDs fail. And whole laptops/workstations die. I was called in to help a client who had Mirrored his server drives. Using an obsolete controller, and NEVER backed up because he had MIRRORED drives. Well his controller took a dump, and BOTH drives were IDENTICALLY USELESS because the controller formatting them to be unrecognizable in a regular system. I still remember the first time my machine FAILED and I had a spare. It took me longer to take the drives out and put in the backup machine, then to boot up and get back to work. Glad to consider you a development brother!
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LOL. No, just old enough to have watched HDDs fail. Lost a RAID because a drive failed while the previously failed drive was still repairing (learned not to use drives from the same batch!). Had SSDs fail. And whole laptops/workstations die. I was called in to help a client who had Mirrored his server drives. Using an obsolete controller, and NEVER backed up because he had MIRRORED drives. Well his controller took a dump, and BOTH drives were IDENTICALLY USELESS because the controller formatting them to be unrecognizable in a regular system. I still remember the first time my machine FAILED and I had a spare. It took me longer to take the drives out and put in the backup machine, then to boot up and get back to work. Glad to consider you a development brother!
RAIDs - false sense of security. Years ago (like 20) we had a very high end RAID in our production system. Many systems shipped to customers. One day, our engineering test unit went down with a bad controller board. Now, in addition to RAID drives and dual controllers, it had dual power supplies - I mean the thing was sold as no single point of failure. Then one of the controllers died. And the tech replaced it, and we found out that the controllers weren't redundant. Apparently the RAID 5 they did depended on the specific controller. Sales guy and the company were very upset when I cancelled their contract.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
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RAIDs - false sense of security. Years ago (like 20) we had a very high end RAID in our production system. Many systems shipped to customers. One day, our engineering test unit went down with a bad controller board. Now, in addition to RAID drives and dual controllers, it had dual power supplies - I mean the thing was sold as no single point of failure. Then one of the controllers died. And the tech replaced it, and we found out that the controllers weren't redundant. Apparently the RAID 5 they did depended on the specific controller. Sales guy and the company were very upset when I cancelled their contract.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
Reminds me of the old 10 inch backup tapes on the PDP/11s Control Data Came out, and did their maintenance. When they were done, we could read OTHER tapes fine, but the ones we wrote for backups could not be read, because the tape head was out of alignment when the tapes were created. (They aligned it because it was having trouble reading OTHER tapes). Being Young, we crossed our fingers. But the Operations Managers, barely 20... Changed procedures so that at least the first tape of each backup had to be mounted/confirmed on a DIFFERENT PDP/11, which meant that there were at least 2 tape drives that could read the tape. [FWIW, that process then discovered we hard Morons on the night shift backing up incorrectly. Thankfully he had the morning shift do this when we were all around, so we could find the issues. But backups were being made to the wrong days tapes. Crazy stuff]