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03-16-2023, 4:48pm | #1 | ||||||
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Finally had to upgrade the computer
My monster tower, with the 18 monitors has some newer components in it, like the OS drive and some of the storage drives, but the physical guts of it are now 7 years old, and failing fast. My machine has physically shut off twice today alone, and it's happening more frequently as of late. As such, it's getting a complete overhaul on the inside. I'm keeping the CoolerMaster tower case, as you simply cannot purchase one as big as it is in today's market. It holds 8 internal hard drives currently.
New products purchased: 3 - AMD Radeon Pro W6800 Workstation-class video cards (18 ports total) 1 - Intel Core i9-13900KS - Core i9 13th Gen Raptor Lake 24-Core processor 1 - ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Hero (WiFi 6E) LGA 1700 motherboard 4 - 32 GB DDR5 6000 memory chips (128 GB total) (sad MB didn't have 8 slots like the current one, otherwise I would have done 256 GB) 1 - Fresh copy of Windows 10 64-bit Pro 1 - Fresh copy of Windows 11 64-bit Pro (only to be installed on a VM. I'm not ready to upgrade to 11 yet without evaluation) 1 - ASUS ROG Strix LC II 360 ARGB Liquid CPU Cooler with 360mm radiator 1 - WD_BLACK SN850X NVMe M.2 2280 4TB SSD Hopefully this investment will carry me another 7 years, which is an eternity in computer years. Ironically, the entire price of the order ($8,300) is what I would have paid JUST for the 3 video cards 1 year ago when they first came out. And I planned on buying them way back then, so to get all of the go fast parts for just the cost of the 3 cards was an added bonus. These video cards are world-class workstation cards. Look 'em up. Also, that M.2 SSD drive is insanely fast, with insane speeds up to 7,300 MB/s throughput. My current SSD is more to the tune of 550 MB/s, which "was" insanely fast. |
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Nerd alert!
That's going to be a killer machine. |
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I just bought a 2nd motherboard. Same brand, but I noticed that the one I ordered didn't support enough SATA devices. New one is a couple hundred more, but has more ports. I'll try and return the first one, if not, I'll build a lower end computer with it and give it to family.
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Why does one tower need 18 monitors?
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I'm concerned you don't have enough monitors. We just worry, is all.
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I may have to upgrade soon myself. This old thing still runs Windows 8.1 and Google just disowned me because I don't have at least Windows 10.
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Look like it's going to be a nice rig.
Can't go wrong with ASUS motherboards but I think I would have gone with an AMD chip. I've always liked them better than Intel and I've been building computers since the '80's. |
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Started back in the day with an IBM 5150, 5.25 FDD, mono screen, parallel port and a serial port.
They did have killer keyboards though. Heavy spring action and built like a truck. Indestructible. Our IBM Sys8100 mainframe lost a HDD one time (located in huge external cabinets). It weighed 70lbs and took two IBM CE's to replace. Probably 20mb or so. |
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Has that i9 come down below 700 bones? I want to build a new gaming/media computer and I just can't see that kind of money for a CPU. Hoping I can drive 8k. Some of the newer video cards can handle it.
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I've never done more than a single GPU. I found this video that you might find helpful
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i get more than 7 years
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Well apparently the resident Harold Finch better review Moore's Law if he thinks any current day setup will still be competitive in 7 years; "you are being watched"....
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Damn. You could buy a console and games for the price of just the i9
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Yeah, just upgraded my 7 yo machine also. I don't make money with mine so it's less substantial. Only a Ryzen 7 with 64 meg & a 1Tb M.2. Did move to Win11 though, had to do a clean install as I never could get the network to come up with the old boot drive in the system. Old system was some 4-core Intel, 4790k I think. Well, moving to Win11 with the clean install wasn't as painful as I imagined, managed to to get everything that was there back. I don't even mind Win11, anything that bothered me was easily fixed with a D-D-G search.
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