It's been about 5 or 6 years since I upgraded my processor so I figured it was time. This is what I went with which makes me happy: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X ASUS ROG Crosshair VI EATX X370 Motherboard 64GB DRAM 3000MHz MSI Radeon RX 570 8GB CrossfireX video card Dispite having to find my Windows product number (which sucked); everything is running smoothing albeit a little colorfully!!
2700X's are nice chips, yeah that will last you a while indeed. I have one last single core in general use as backup/storage machine, a Sempron 145, 2.8Ghz etc etc, as storage machine it is fine but everything is now geared towards multicore/threads which had become quite noticable lately, think you will need 4 threads to get anywhere these days.
Oh you mean the LED pox? My power supply is garish now. I had to get a new one and it has fucking LED lighting. I hate fucking LED lighting. Even ram sticks have it. FFS
Yeah I don’t need spinning rims on my computer case. A case is a case to me. Basically I moved what was in my old nzxt case to this smaller one. Width is wider but I was worried going too small would cause things to not fit 13.82" x 10.87" x 15.67"
My current general purpose desktop machine is fitted inside a Asus OEM microtower, it used to have a door covering the DVD burner but it snapped off, otherwise it is not a bad case, enough cooling for the Ryzen 2200G and easy to keep clean, no LED infection there. The game machine lives inside an Antec P-183 which is great at keeping it cool without much noise.
Well well, AMD is indeed going to bring out a socket AM4 16 core 32 thread CPU, TDP will be 105 watts, that is rather impressive, guess the next threadripper series will be absolute core/thread monsters.. I mean if you can cram all this into 105 watts then you can double that easily for the 200-250 watts TDP Threadripper has. Also: Asmedia will provide mid to low(er) end chipsets for the 3000 series CPU so you don't have to buy a X570 if you want to have PCIE 4.0, of course you can use current generation boards for the new CPU series if it is supported by the manufacturer. https://www.techpowerup.com/256547/asmedia-sourced-amd-b550-a520-chipset-motherboards-arrive-in-2020 Of course you can still use a lot of boards with the 470, 370, 450, 350 etc chipset.
let them finish with Threadripper first 64c/128t planned for to out by years end. https://wccftech.com/exclusive-amd-...ore-threadripper-landing-as-early-as-q4-2019/
OK here is an interesting link I found about the new Windows 10 May update. Also lists known issues. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-information/status-windows-10-1903
Don't upgrade until M$ tells you it is good enough for their business users, if they say it is then it is probably safe to use, of course Win 10 home users will become yet again the beta testers for the whole thing.
Sure, as a Windows 10 user I get to beta test buggy software that many people paid full retail price for, but on the plus side, every day is an adventure!
Yep. It's why I have a batch file in place to block it. As in, if something went really wrong with the update... I wouldn't be able to update any of the drivers that they'd want people to do... as in I'd need to get newer hardware to do so. My own laptop says I have the most up to date drivers on it.
Not a bad idea. I mean, I do full backups every night because I'm a crazy person, but maybe a patch that blocks updates would be good, too.
Yea I'll have to find it again. It was via Reddit. The person was nice enough to make it for people to use for free. I miss Windows 7... at least we had some control over what got updated. Here ya go: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/8722yj/disable_automatic_updates_via_windows_update/ There might be some newer versions of it out there too, but this is the version I'm using.
I guess I have a bit of a luxury position, I have all the programs etc that I need using Linux Mint, just one machine left with Windows so at some stage I will have to switch to Linux/steam OS or keep using Windows.