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Thread ID: 149007	2020-05-15 06:33:00	So excited!	Misty (368)	PC World Chat

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1468827	2020-05-17 03:49:00	Intel Coffee Lake Core i7 9700K Gigabyte H370 AORUS GAMING G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR4 16GB Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD NZXT H510 ATX MidTower Cooler Master MWE 550W Oooh...nice motherboard. Nice RAM. Nice case. Nice withthe HDDs, I did that with my sons build, an SSD and his old TB mechanicals for storage..... Not quite as keen on the PSU, but it's OK...just a personal thing. But....where is the GPU? You didn't get one?	piroska (17583)
1468828	2020-05-17 05:03:00	Also, almost forgot that we transferred the graphics card from the old tower to the new. The i7 chip has strong graphics inbuilt capability anyway. The card is 4096MB ATI Radeon 550 Series (unknown). What "unknown" means, I don't know! :-) Hi Piroska - I had added the details above in the post just before your second one. So that the GPU. Re the PSU, I googled what that means and apparently it is the Power Supply Unit. Am not even sure which one I got. Did not know that there are different ones? Lots still to learn!	Misty (368)
1468829	2020-05-17 08:28:00	That's got some zip, you must be able to fly through the Solitaire now ;) I was a bit disappointed with my last upgrade, it still struggles to get above twenty mistakes a minute typing speed. DOS and an 8088 could do that (a hedgehog could do better and not get so prickly about it).	R2x1 (4628)
1468830	2020-05-17 21:38:00	I had added the details above in the post just before your second one. So that the GPU. Re the PSU, I googled what that means and apparently it is the Power Supply Unit. Am not even sure which one I got. ! LOL. I just like ANtec these days, as I said don't worry about it, it's a personal preference. Yours is not a crap brand.... And the GPU, thanks...haven't had a good drool over hardware for ages.............remember jjjjs new machines??	piroska (17583)
1468831	2020-05-17 22:41:00	Re the PSU, I googled what that means and apparently it is the Power Supply Unit. Am not even sure which one I got. Did not know that there are different ones? Lots still to learn! Power supplies are usually not made by the Brand on the label. They get them made by another company & slap their own brand labels on them. One well known company got caught slapping on a power rating label that was above the manufactures actual rating Cant tell much just by the brand any more . :)	1101 (13337)
1468832	2020-05-18 01:43:00	I know all about brand vs component manufacturers. But in general say Antec vs Hyena.....well. A cheat way to see a good one is weight. Every crap brand one I came across weighed nothing. Not a very technical way to do it, but for the can't be bothered it helps.	piroska (17583)
1468833	2020-05-20 05:39:00	Hi Misty I am the same age as you, we can still show the youngsters (anyone under 70) a thing or to. Well done:clap:clap :D	Arnie (6624)
1468834	2020-05-22 06:06:00	I know all about brand vs component manufacturers. But in general say Antec vs Hyena.....well. A cheat way to see a good one is weight. Every crap brand one I came across weighed nothing. Not a very technical way to do it, but for the can't be bothered it helps. This reminds me about how cd rom drives changed. When they were first built, they were heavy and reliable. Once they got pass the hurdle of making people believe in them, they were built cheaper, much lighter and that introduced all the problems we started seeing.	Kame (312)
1468835	2020-05-23 21:55:00	cd rom drives c built cheaper, much lighter and that introduced all the problems we started seeing. Well I have a DVD/CDrom in my PC which is about 9 years old now. Still works, I stuck a disc in it the other day....although these days they are pretty obsolete.	piroska (17583)
1468836	2020-05-24 21:57:00	This reminds me about how cd rom drives changed. When they were first built, they were heavy and reliable. Once they got pass the hurdle of making people believe in them, they were built cheaper, much lighter and that introduced all the problems we started seeing. Well, no one wants to pay $300 for a PC CD drive any more . The old ones were no more reliable anyway , Ive seen plenty of faulty early CDRoms . :-)	1101 (13337)
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