Hardware & Technical Excited now. Treated myself.. :)

[Patrick_68000]

You should never have opened this thread on the forum. He gave you bad luck for your order. Do not worry, you will receive your order, all the same

 

[Nagual]

This update is brought to you from a spankingly fast new PC!



It arrived this afternoon, checked all the bits and fitted them in to the old case. Argghhh! No IDE support for old disk drives... well okay local shop has them so... phew..

Installing Windows was a pleasure compared to previously, took.. well I didn't need to keep checking the time, minutes really. Boots in around 15 seconds or there abouts from POST.

The noise? What noise! The intel stock fan is damn near silent. Ambient noise in and around the house is much louder. Happy days!

 

[Cody]

<applauds>

 

[withnail]

Congratulations!!

 

[Nagual]

It's really eerie ... the silence is beginning to worry me.. lol I've had to get up twice now to check the fan is in fact spinning..

 

[Cody]

Is it an Asus mobo? Their PC Probe utility does a good job of monitoring fans, temps etc.

 

[Nagual]

Nope, tis a Gigabyte board. Not gone through all the various apps and tools yet, hopefully there is something similar.

 

[Cody]

Windows tools

On the subject of monitoring tools, I've been using this for years - very handy.

 

[Patrick_68000]

Happy days!

Congratulations and good takeoff with Haswell

 

[Cosmos]

toms hardware

Nagual, for GPUs I always go here to get an easy idea of whats decent:

September GPUs
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/gaming-graphics-card-review,review-32779.html

 

[Cosmos]

You will love the SSD too. I recently replaced my ancient Seagate 7200rpm with a 500Gb Samsung 840, and the difference in speed is staggering - from POST beep to usable desktop now takes 15 seconds
.

I'm thinking for an older system like mine that putting in an SSD might be enough of a boost in system performance to stave of having to replace the mobo and cpu. It must cut down on data transfer times massively.

 

[Nagual]

I'm thinking for an older system like mine that putting in an SSD might be enough of a boost in system performance to stave of having to replace the mobo and cpu. It must cut down on data transfer times massively.

It would depend on where your system bottleneck is currently, it certainly will help, but there is the old favourite of adding more RAM, assuming you can of course and not maxed out on either OS or MOBO limits.