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First system arch upgrade in 9 years...
So, I finally was able to sequester some funds from the family budget and thought Skylake + DDR4 was good enough reason to put out some hondo's towards some new hardware.
Got them all in yesterday and ripped out my Core2Duo E6600 mobo, proc and memory and slapped in their replacements. WOW what a diference.
My SSD's really came alive going from SATA3 to SATA6. I also now have an M.2 pciex4 slot for my next storage upgrade. Can't wait. So I went from my system bottlenecking my HD7850 vid to my HD7850 bottlenecking my system lol. I almost regret not geting the i5-6600k for overclocking but maybe an i7 in the distant future when they are the old thing on the block.
Ho well. _________________ For with what measure you measure it will be measured to you.
Fri Apr 08, 2016 10:45 am
LightningCrash
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Giggity!
Congrats. I know how few and far between those upgrades are on state salaries.
Fri Apr 08, 2016 11:10 am
Brules
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Nice, you would shit yourself if you got a GTX 970 lol! _________________ K-SWISS Power cologne. Who knew you could bottle the scent of boner?
Fri Apr 08, 2016 9:35 pm
LightningCrash
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His power supply would shit itself first.
Sat Apr 09, 2016 10:45 pm
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This ^. _________________ K-SWISS Power cologne. Who knew you could bottle the scent of boner?
Sun Apr 10, 2016 11:42 am
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Actually, as I found out during the build, that a 9 year old motherboard has a different CPU (ATX) power socket on the motherboard than a brand spankin new (or several year old for that matter) motherboard. My old PSU had a 4 pin ATX power plug and my new motherboard takes an 8 pin.
I just really lucked out, though. As it turns out back in 2014 I purchased this new PSU for my son's PC and it turned out not to need it so it was still sealed up in the box on the floor. It did have the correct power plugs. woohoo!!! _________________ For with what measure you measure it will be measured to you.
Mon Apr 11, 2016 11:38 am
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