Pulled The Trigger Last Night
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After fighting with this 10 yo PC that is cluttered and balky, and can't run Win 11, I finally bought the components last night for its replacement. I'm building it on an ASUS MB - my first from that company - with the Z690 chipset. The brains will be supplied by a Core i9 12900KF CPU running at 3.2 GHz (that boggles the mind, as my first CPU ran at an impressive 1 MHz!). For memory I'm settling for a mere 64 GB of DDR5 RAM with a 1TB SSD. Graphics will be provided by a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti card from ASUS. Hopefully this will be able to run AutoCAD and ESRI ArcGIS with too much lag. The best part is that, a couple of calls I was holding leapt up in price this morning by enough to more than pay for the new system, so I sold them! Happy Friday! :beer:!
Will Rogers never met me.
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After fighting with this 10 yo PC that is cluttered and balky, and can't run Win 11, I finally bought the components last night for its replacement. I'm building it on an ASUS MB - my first from that company - with the Z690 chipset. The brains will be supplied by a Core i9 12900KF CPU running at 3.2 GHz (that boggles the mind, as my first CPU ran at an impressive 1 MHz!). For memory I'm settling for a mere 64 GB of DDR5 RAM with a 1TB SSD. Graphics will be provided by a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti card from ASUS. Hopefully this will be able to run AutoCAD and ESRI ArcGIS with too much lag. The best part is that, a couple of calls I was holding leapt up in price this morning by enough to more than pay for the new system, so I sold them! Happy Friday! :beer:!
Will Rogers never met me.
I thought I saw a glow in the western sky last night.
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After fighting with this 10 yo PC that is cluttered and balky, and can't run Win 11, I finally bought the components last night for its replacement. I'm building it on an ASUS MB - my first from that company - with the Z690 chipset. The brains will be supplied by a Core i9 12900KF CPU running at 3.2 GHz (that boggles the mind, as my first CPU ran at an impressive 1 MHz!). For memory I'm settling for a mere 64 GB of DDR5 RAM with a 1TB SSD. Graphics will be provided by a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti card from ASUS. Hopefully this will be able to run AutoCAD and ESRI ArcGIS with too much lag. The best part is that, a couple of calls I was holding leapt up in price this morning by enough to more than pay for the new system, so I sold them! Happy Friday! :beer:!
Will Rogers never met me.
Roger Wright wrote:
For memory I'm settling for a mere 64 MB of DDR5 RAM ... Hopefully this will be able to run AutoCAD and ESRI ArcGIS with too much lag.
That typo made me laugh! Windows wouldn't even boot with that! Happy weekend to you, too! :beer:
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Roger Wright wrote:
For memory I'm settling for a mere 64 MB of DDR5 RAM ... Hopefully this will be able to run AutoCAD and ESRI ArcGIS with too much lag.
That typo made me laugh! Windows wouldn't even boot with that! Happy weekend to you, too! :beer:
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Roger Wright wrote:
For memory I'm settling for a mere 64 MB of DDR5 RAM ... Hopefully this will be able to run AutoCAD and ESRI ArcGIS with too much lag.
That typo made me laugh! Windows wouldn't even boot with that! Happy weekend to you, too! :beer:
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Yup - caught me napping. :sigh: Let's make that GB and call it good...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Fixed it... and I checked the order, too, just in case. All good. :)
Will Rogers never met me.
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After fighting with this 10 yo PC that is cluttered and balky, and can't run Win 11, I finally bought the components last night for its replacement. I'm building it on an ASUS MB - my first from that company - with the Z690 chipset. The brains will be supplied by a Core i9 12900KF CPU running at 3.2 GHz (that boggles the mind, as my first CPU ran at an impressive 1 MHz!). For memory I'm settling for a mere 64 GB of DDR5 RAM with a 1TB SSD. Graphics will be provided by a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti card from ASUS. Hopefully this will be able to run AutoCAD and ESRI ArcGIS with too much lag. The best part is that, a couple of calls I was holding leapt up in price this morning by enough to more than pay for the new system, so I sold them! Happy Friday! :beer:!
Will Rogers never met me.
Congrats on the new system. Always nice when it's paid for/free!
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Yup - caught me napping. :sigh: Let's make that GB and call it good...
Will Rogers never met me.
I seem to remember a time when you could buy 64 MB sticks, but I doubt they are available today off the shelf! And if they were, they should have been so cheap that the price would have triggered you as being wrong.
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After fighting with this 10 yo PC that is cluttered and balky, and can't run Win 11, I finally bought the components last night for its replacement. I'm building it on an ASUS MB - my first from that company - with the Z690 chipset. The brains will be supplied by a Core i9 12900KF CPU running at 3.2 GHz (that boggles the mind, as my first CPU ran at an impressive 1 MHz!). For memory I'm settling for a mere 64 GB of DDR5 RAM with a 1TB SSD. Graphics will be provided by a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti card from ASUS. Hopefully this will be able to run AutoCAD and ESRI ArcGIS with too much lag. The best part is that, a couple of calls I was holding leapt up in price this morning by enough to more than pay for the new system, so I sold them! Happy Friday! :beer:!
Will Rogers never met me.
I recommend you to go with more drives. One M.2 SSD for System, a normal SSD for working data and a HDD for long time storage. With current prices... that should be quite affordable.
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I recommend you to go with more drives. One M.2 SSD for System, a normal SSD for working data and a HDD for long time storage. With current prices... that should be quite affordable.
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
I agree, but I'm waiting to get the basic system integrated, then I'll start adding stuff. It's hard to tell from ads what will fit. I did get a flyer from Newegg today offering a 18TB WD Gold HDD for $299. That's incredibly cheap; I paid more than that for the external drive I bought for my Apple IIc! I'm also considering flushing the old system and using it for network storage. IIRC, I built it with 3x SATA drives attached to a RAID controller. That should do nicely.
Will Rogers never met me.
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After fighting with this 10 yo PC that is cluttered and balky, and can't run Win 11, I finally bought the components last night for its replacement. I'm building it on an ASUS MB - my first from that company - with the Z690 chipset. The brains will be supplied by a Core i9 12900KF CPU running at 3.2 GHz (that boggles the mind, as my first CPU ran at an impressive 1 MHz!). For memory I'm settling for a mere 64 GB of DDR5 RAM with a 1TB SSD. Graphics will be provided by a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti card from ASUS. Hopefully this will be able to run AutoCAD and ESRI ArcGIS with too much lag. The best part is that, a couple of calls I was holding leapt up in price this morning by enough to more than pay for the new system, so I sold them! Happy Friday! :beer:!
Will Rogers never met me.
I like ASUS a lot. My machine at home is an ASUS- love it.
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I agree, but I'm waiting to get the basic system integrated, then I'll start adding stuff. It's hard to tell from ads what will fit. I did get a flyer from Newegg today offering a 18TB WD Gold HDD for $299. That's incredibly cheap; I paid more than that for the external drive I bought for my Apple IIc! I'm also considering flushing the old system and using it for network storage. IIRC, I built it with 3x SATA drives attached to a RAID controller. That should do nicely.
Will Rogers never met me.
Roger Wright wrote:
..a 18TB WD Gold HDD for $299...
Pardon my French, but Fuck, how the world has changed! At the time of those 64 MB memory cards such a drive could not have been bought even if you had a billion dollars burning a hole in your pocket.
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After fighting with this 10 yo PC that is cluttered and balky, and can't run Win 11, I finally bought the components last night for its replacement. I'm building it on an ASUS MB - my first from that company - with the Z690 chipset. The brains will be supplied by a Core i9 12900KF CPU running at 3.2 GHz (that boggles the mind, as my first CPU ran at an impressive 1 MHz!). For memory I'm settling for a mere 64 GB of DDR5 RAM with a 1TB SSD. Graphics will be provided by a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti card from ASUS. Hopefully this will be able to run AutoCAD and ESRI ArcGIS with too much lag. The best part is that, a couple of calls I was holding leapt up in price this morning by enough to more than pay for the new system, so I sold them! Happy Friday! :beer:!
Will Rogers never met me.
With your set up you are good to go with AutoCAD and ArcGIS. I have i9-9900 @ 3.1 GHz with Intel with UHD graphics (not as powerful as your RTX 3060) and can run AutoCAD, Rhino 3D, and a number games just fine.
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I recommend you to go with more drives. One M.2 SSD for System, a normal SSD for working data and a HDD for long time storage. With current prices... that should be quite affordable.
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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After fighting with this 10 yo PC that is cluttered and balky, and can't run Win 11, I finally bought the components last night for its replacement. I'm building it on an ASUS MB - my first from that company - with the Z690 chipset. The brains will be supplied by a Core i9 12900KF CPU running at 3.2 GHz (that boggles the mind, as my first CPU ran at an impressive 1 MHz!). For memory I'm settling for a mere 64 GB of DDR5 RAM with a 1TB SSD. Graphics will be provided by a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti card from ASUS. Hopefully this will be able to run AutoCAD and ESRI ArcGIS with too much lag. The best part is that, a couple of calls I was holding leapt up in price this morning by enough to more than pay for the new system, so I sold them! Happy Friday! :beer:!
Will Rogers never met me.
Roger, you saying you "pulled the trigger" makes some of us look for a situation on CNN where a team of a dozen active shooters is taken down by one man with a single extra magazine. :cool:
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Roger, you saying you "pulled the trigger" makes some of us look for a situation on CNN where a team of a dozen active shooters is taken down by one man with a single extra magazine. :cool:
Software Zen:
delete this;:laugh: :laugh: Who needs an extra magazine? Besides, I'm an instructor, but I'm no marksman. It takes years of dedicated practice to do what those guys can do; I'm not that dedicated. ;)
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:laugh: :laugh: Who needs an extra magazine? Besides, I'm an instructor, but I'm no marksman. It takes years of dedicated practice to do what those guys can do; I'm not that dedicated. ;)
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I did mention a dozen assailants, and I assumed a 1911 with 8 rounds per mag. That gives you a whole 4 rounds left over for next time.
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I did mention a dozen assailants, and I assumed a 1911 with 8 rounds per mag. That gives you a whole 4 rounds left over for next time.
Software Zen:
delete this;I prefer the Browning Hi Power, with 13 rounds, but it's kinda hard to carry concealed. Worst case, if I can get a few of them to stand in a line, the Browning BAR in .30-06 should be able to manage 4 at a time, with one spare shot left in the magazine.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote:
For memory I'm settling for a mere 64 MB of DDR5 RAM ... Hopefully this will be able to run AutoCAD and ESRI ArcGIS with too much lag.
That typo made me laugh! Windows wouldn't even boot with that! Happy weekend to you, too! :beer:
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But surely 640k is enough? :-D
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After fighting with this 10 yo PC that is cluttered and balky, and can't run Win 11, I finally bought the components last night for its replacement. I'm building it on an ASUS MB - my first from that company - with the Z690 chipset. The brains will be supplied by a Core i9 12900KF CPU running at 3.2 GHz (that boggles the mind, as my first CPU ran at an impressive 1 MHz!). For memory I'm settling for a mere 64 GB of DDR5 RAM with a 1TB SSD. Graphics will be provided by a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti card from ASUS. Hopefully this will be able to run AutoCAD and ESRI ArcGIS with too much lag. The best part is that, a couple of calls I was holding leapt up in price this morning by enough to more than pay for the new system, so I sold them! Happy Friday! :beer:!
Will Rogers never met me.
