I'm about to replace my desktop computer, my beloved home-built "Build 2012" with a new home-built desktop computer: "Build 2017".
Catchy name, eh -- I should have been in marketing.
I was enticed by the new Intel i7 8700K processor, just released last month. My current Build 2012 still feels like a hot rod, but I figured that 5½ years and 5 generations of processors is enough of a wait that it's not too extravagant to get up to current state of the art. And I'm calling this a Christmas present to myself.
Even though the new processor is a lot more powerful than my old i7-3820, it runs on less power, so cooler.
And even though my current OS-&-programs drive is an SSD, the new SSD is faster/better -- both internally and its interface.
Build 2017 will actually have less RAM than 2012 -- 16GB instead of 32GB. But unless I get into video editing 16GB is enough for me. And this is a faster generation of RAM than I had in 2012. (I had 32GB in 2012 only because there was a super-sale on RAM) And there are slots to add two more 8GB sticks if I decide to...maybe a birthday present to myself -- in January.
For the rest of the build I'll be cannibalizing my current desktop: case, video card, data-storage hard-drives -- 5TB worth (the new SSD is only for the OS and programs), CPU cooler, power supply, etc. Some of these components were new in 2015 when I did a minor "refresh" of Build 2012, and they're all still more than adequate for my needs.
Shouldn't take more than a day to do this build..but I want to make sure I'm all ready so I'm not without my desktop for long. Gotta clone the contents of my current SSD to the new SSD, etc.
This will be my 4th generation of home-built computers -- nerdy fun!
The new components (clickable thumbnails):
Processor:
Motherboard:
SSD "hard drive"
RAM
Catchy name, eh -- I should have been in marketing.
I was enticed by the new Intel i7 8700K processor, just released last month. My current Build 2012 still feels like a hot rod, but I figured that 5½ years and 5 generations of processors is enough of a wait that it's not too extravagant to get up to current state of the art. And I'm calling this a Christmas present to myself.
Even though the new processor is a lot more powerful than my old i7-3820, it runs on less power, so cooler.
And even though my current OS-&-programs drive is an SSD, the new SSD is faster/better -- both internally and its interface.
Build 2017 will actually have less RAM than 2012 -- 16GB instead of 32GB. But unless I get into video editing 16GB is enough for me. And this is a faster generation of RAM than I had in 2012. (I had 32GB in 2012 only because there was a super-sale on RAM) And there are slots to add two more 8GB sticks if I decide to...maybe a birthday present to myself -- in January.
For the rest of the build I'll be cannibalizing my current desktop: case, video card, data-storage hard-drives -- 5TB worth (the new SSD is only for the OS and programs), CPU cooler, power supply, etc. Some of these components were new in 2015 when I did a minor "refresh" of Build 2012, and they're all still more than adequate for my needs.
Shouldn't take more than a day to do this build..but I want to make sure I'm all ready so I'm not without my desktop for long. Gotta clone the contents of my current SSD to the new SSD, etc.
This will be my 4th generation of home-built computers -- nerdy fun!
The new components (clickable thumbnails):
Processor:
Motherboard:
SSD "hard drive"
RAM