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Buffer6
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25 days ago

Six year old PC upgrade

My PC was long over due an upgrade, hadn't even changed the thermal paste every two years as you're supposed to, so it must have slowed down or run hotter over time.

I was running a Asus crosshair VII  Hero Motherboard with an AMD 2700x 8 core 16 thread CPU and 16GB of 3200Mhz DDR4 RAM 

I seen on Amazon that the AMD 5950x 16 core 32 threads  CPU was on offer for under £300, so decided to upgrade along with 64GB of CL16 DDR4 3200Mhz RAM (CL16 works out OK as it is a multiple of the base clock)

It now runs over 3800 Mhz with peaks up to 4500 Mhz, I have a Corsair AIO watercooler so that does the job, TEMPS not exceeding  72c on test with all 32 threads running flat out.

I originally included a 850W gold PSU in my build, to allow for upgrades later and had some Artic thermal paste from a previous PC

The Upgrade cost £406,  so that will have to do for another lot of years.  It's amazing  how fast the PC now runs.   Sticking with Windows 10 for now

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  • Adduxi's avatar
    Adduxi
    Very Insightful Person
    25 days ago

    Sounds good, but I've never been a fan of AMD or overclocking.  Just too set in my ways, I guess.

    I'll just stick to my 8088 XT ...  ;-)

    • Buffer6's avatar
      Buffer6
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      25 days ago

      Sounds good, but I've never been a fan of AMD or overclocking.  Just too set in my ways, I guess.

      I'll just stick to my 8088 XT ...  ;-)

      😃It could be worth cash for a museum or collector. 👍

       

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    Buffer6
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    10 days ago

    Time for more mods to my PC.

    I was using a Samsung  Samsung 960 EVO M.2-2280 500GB SSD for my C: drive Quite expensive 6 years ago @£139.95 So updated to a newer SanDisk Plus 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD which was on offer from Amazon @£85.99  😃

    I then cloned the drive with a hardware cloner SSX DK201@£42.49 it took 7 minutes to write the old drive to the new, then I used free Mini Partition Maker to expand the C: partition to realize full size of the 2TB drive.

    I used Crystal disk to see what difference it made

    Old Samsung Drive

    New SanDisk Drive

    So now running faster, as well as more space😃