[GTALUG] New Build Computer?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Mon Jul 20 12:03:34 EDT 2020


On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 10:38:03PM -0400, William Park via talk wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 02:48:16PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
> > It went from a core i7 (4 core 8 thread) with 32GB ram and a pair of
> > 120GB SSDs in RAID1 to a Ryzen 5 3600 (6 core 12 thread) with 32GB ram
> > and a 1TB NVME M.2 drive.  Of course for current AMD chips that's not a
> > high end CPU and they have plenty of much more powerful chips if there
> > is actually a need for that.
> 
> So, what is your initial comparison?  Roughly same?

Well after the 15 seconds or so the BIOS (well UEFI) takes to initialize
the hardware, windows 10 boots to login prompt in about 3 seconds.
Not sure what I could change to make the BIOS work faster. :)

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Len Sorensen


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