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Join Date: Dec 1969
Location: chula vista ca usa
Posts: 5,728
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Had to build a new computer
Over the past 4 or 5 months I have been getting the Windows 10 Blue Screen Of Death or BSOD and there seems to be about 8 different error messages and I was writing them down as looking for answers but when they started to repeat themselves I decided it was time as my PC was a little over 5 years old. Sooooo here is what I had and how I upgraded:
CPU: AMD X8 -> Intel I9 12900
RAM: 16GB -> 64GB
Motherboard: ASUS 64 bit -> MSI with 128 bit internals
Cooling: fan sitting on CPU -> Liquid pump with 2 huge fans with LEDs
Case: Large case with an extra cooling fan -> Ginormous case with 2 huge and 1 medium fan
Video Card: Reused as it is FAST
Power Supply: 500Watt -> 1000Watt with larger case and fan.
All my drives (8 total) were reused although the SSD boot drive decided to not boot for us (computer store guys) so they installed a temp OS of Windows 10. When I got home I did a reinstall of 10Pro and with this mother board and BIO I could upgrade to Windows 11 for free. So I got all the drives, applications and such working I went ahead and did the upgrade to Windows 11 last evening and so far no weirdness or crashes or ?????. The interface does look much better and 11 allows more configuring of what screen setup you want and what colors ETC, ETC.
The extra hard drives are for digitizing my movies (dat tape) from my race car and a 30 minute session in 1080P makes for large files so I have 2x 8TB drives in an external docking station and 2x 4TB drives in another one and they go to sleep when not being accessed. My 2 Pugs like the changing colors of the cooling fans and other parts which the old computer did not have
John
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