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Title: Major Upgrade Post by: smi256 on July 17, 2016, 11:05:37 PM My 9.5 year old computer finally gave up the ghost. Either the RAM or the the memory controller has been going out for a few years. I was down to stock speeds, Core2 2.4GHz CPU and DDR2 800MHz RAM.
I'm now running a new trifecta of new current gen CPU, mainboard and RAM :) feels soo good :) Title: Re: Major Upgrade Post by: SS on July 17, 2016, 11:49:39 PM My main machine is six years old and still hanging in there. Hope it survives more than another three!
It's only a Core i7 2.8GHz (1st/2nd gen), but it's been upgraded to 12GB of DDR3 which requires quite an effort to use up. (Unlike on my work machine which only has 8GB and is a constant chore to keep below 7GB used!) I do also have a Skylake i3 system with 16GB that I've been (slowly) getting setup with Arch Linux, which I'll use for development work once it's ready. Title: Re: Major Upgrade Post by: smi256 on July 18, 2016, 12:07:31 AM The old machine had 8GB RAM and had been a bottle neck. I'm apparently computer abusive. I was having more and more trouble with things as simple as playing youtube videos (maxing out the CPU), flash, HMTL5, didn't seem to matter. There were a few other problems, like not supporting newer SATA with TRIM, so the SSD upgrade I made a while back was somewhat stinted (still great, just not 100%). The onboard audio card wasn't really working so well, it kept picking up cellphone interference. Just an assortment of little, non-deal-breakers... until the near monthly, to weekly, then daily crashes really forced my hand.
I happened to catch and really good deal and went from the 16GB RAM kit I was looking at to 32GB for a ~$15 premium. Very lucky. I'm still on 17GB used right now... (I have problems, I'm working on it) Title: Re: Major Upgrade Post by: SS on July 18, 2016, 12:26:14 AM Hah, I remember when you could tell a text message was about to arrive because speakers would make a noise! :D
I have external audio because the headphone jack broke and muted the internal audio - still was a long time of wiggling it just so to get a connection until I finally got it. My next upgrade will probably be a new mouse - my Logitech G500s has started dropping connection momentarily then reverting to a different profile, and it's getting frequent enough to be a nuisance. Title: Re: Major Upgrade Post by: smi256 on July 22, 2016, 06:54:30 AM I have the same mouse and I have my preferred DPS recorded because it gets wiped every now and again.
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