Random Chit Chat

[Celery]

Nope , same BS. Motherboard is shot. I don't know about the CPU. I'll save the W10 disk for the new system.

For now, my trusty old i5 system with W7 will get me by.

Found an 8th gen i3 quad core CPU and AsRock DGS MOBO for $173. I can use my 2x8 DDR4 mems on it.

This CPU is pretty basic. No turbo boost nor HTT, just a solid 3.6 Ghz through and through.

Sounds good enough for me.

My i5 is running on an AsRock DGS mobo and it's solid.

 

[Wallaby Dan]

From what i was told, the drivers that windows 7 uses don't work with ssd. I never tried but was told that anything as old as 7, vista, xp would not play nice on a ssd. 8.1 and 10 would. I left win 7 on the raptor drive and have 10 on the ssd. I am also adding another hd to be storage for w10.

 

[Celery]

W7 is running fine on my SSD here.

 

[AMD_man]

W7 is Windows 7 you know

Why did you have to clarify that?

 

[AMD_man]

From what i was told, the drivers that windows 7 uses don't work with ssd. I never tried but was told that anything as old as 7, vista, xp would not play nice on a ssd. 8.1 and 10 would. I left win 7 on the raptor drive and have 10 on the ssd. I am also adding another hd to be storage for w10.

There is no difference in the way the OS interacts with an SSD or HDD.

 

[Trotter]

There is no difference in the way the OS interacts with an SSD or HDD.

True. The mobo and OS only see SATA; it doesn't matter what is on the other end.

 

[Celery]

Here I am again, this time on my R5 system running Kubuntu. The OS is on the 32g cache SSD and 500g HDD for storage. I took out the 2x8 memory and put in the 4 gig module.

Why it won't work with Windows I have not a damn clue.

 

[strollin]

On OSes older than Win 7, Trim may not be compatible but the SSD will still work as long as the system supports SATA. Actually, you can even get SSDs that use the old IDE interface but they're expensive and don't perform as well as a SATA SSD.

 

[Celery]

I've installed Google Chrome and got my net back in. Not bad. I could get used to this. Only thing I can't do is to play my games on my PC (offline).

Nevertheless, the Kubuntu have a very nice software center. Even got an icon for it. Just got through installing 465 updates.

 

[AMD_man]

Stop it Celery. I'm getting dangerously close to installing Arch again.