[GTALUG] New Build Computer?

[Peter King]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 05:27:19PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:

> > What is your old motherboard?  CPU?  RAM?

Old motherboard: Asus Sabertooth X79
Old CPU: Intel i7 3970 (Sandybridge-E), six cores / twelve threads
Old RAM: Corsair DDR3 4x8G = 32G total

This is almost the same as Lennart's father's machine:
 
> I also have my father's unstable (seems to hang detecting disks on
> most boot attempts for some reason) i7-3920 (4 core 8 thread) with the
> Asus Sabertooth X79 motherboard and 32GB ram.  If it boots, it runs fine.

Interesting -- that's pretty much exactly the symptoms I had: if it
actually made it past the POST, it booted and ran with no problems,
but it only did that about one in twelve attempts.

> > I'd love to play with what you discard!  It would be newer and more
> > powerful than any of my desktops.

I expect to have some high-end components that I can't use in the near
future...


At the moment I'm looking at the AMD Ryzen 3800X 3.9GHz eight-core /
sixteen-thread CPU, the Asus Prime X570-Pro AM4 ATX motherboard, and
the Corsair LPX Vengeance 4x16G = 64G total.  With any luck I can just
migrate my audio card (Asus Xonar STX Essence), bluray drive, power
supply, and perhaps even my CoolerMaster case.  I haven't decided 
whether to use the old video card or try for one that will drive
UHD 4K resolution -- the latter requiring a new monitor, too.  Might
be better just to start with the new equipment and see how easy or
hard it is to get Arch up and running, then decide about the video.

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