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Thoughts on this PC
Win10 simply isn't working on my 12 year old computer. I've given up on trying to get the two to play nice. It's a fundamental driver issue and as stubborn as I am when it comes to troubleshooting I have nor the time or the patience to start hacking drivers on a decade old PC.
What's your thoughts on the value of this PC: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1 It's ceiling would need to be say, Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, MS Office, and 3D CAD. Nerd thoughts? I'm thinking as long as sold as advertised it's a pretty good deal. Last edited by Otter; 03-10-2019 at 11:49 AM.. |
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03-11-2019, 12:17 PM | #16 |
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I use SSD's in all my non-Windows machines but man have I had problems with Windows 10 and SSD's.
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03-11-2019, 12:39 PM | #17 |
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All my Windows 10 machines have SSD's and haven't encountered a single issue. I had far greater problems with 7200 rpm drives and raid than i've had with SSD.
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03-11-2019, 07:42 PM | #18 |
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No problems with SSD's and Win 10 for me either. Primarily we use Samsung EVO drives.
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03-11-2019, 09:03 PM | #19 |
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There was an issue with a hand full of SSD drives and Win10: https://betanews.com/2018/05/24/windows-10-kb4100403/
But it was pretty minor. There's millions of copies of Win10 on SSDs running just fine. I really wouldn't avoid it at this point, you'll be missing quite a bit of performance...
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03-12-2019, 10:19 AM | #20 |
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I'm just amazed that you have a functioning, 12-year-old PC.
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03-12-2019, 10:40 AM | #21 |
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Assembled it myself from carefully selected NewEgg inventory. It has worked flawlessly up until a month or so ago when it met Win10. I think I've gotten my money's worth and time out of that PC. Next year during the winter I'm going to build a new system from top to bottom and redo the room from paint to desk. I'm really liking what I'm seeing in the wall mounted curved monitors and where the technology is going in general. Something like this:
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03-12-2019, 11:19 AM | #23 |
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I do as well, and no issues whatsoever.
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03-12-2019, 11:25 AM | #24 |
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03-12-2019, 11:27 AM | #25 |
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Intel is the same brand I've had all my SSD + Win10 problems.
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03-12-2019, 12:03 PM | #26 |
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It was even worse in previous versions....
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03-12-2019, 03:00 PM | #27 |
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03-12-2019, 03:10 PM | #28 |
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Then there was the issue where Microsoft auto pushed out the ~5GB Win10 installer to Win7 machines via Windows Update. Which would leave the machine in a "Installing updates. Please don't power off" state sometimes for hours depending on the network connection. Then pester you every 10 minutes about the free upgrade to v10 that you didn't ask for...
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However, I'm talking about stuff like trying to apply a hot fix (KB55555 or something similar) and it just fails with a generic hex error - you look it up online and the literal description is "generic installer error". So you run the repair tool, and then apply a hot fix with the offline repair tool, and finally you're editing the registry and removed the WinSXS folder and it still won't run. The database gets corrupted somehow and there's no way to fix it short of reinstalling Windows. At least Windows 10 will let you refresh the system now without losing all of your data and having to restore from backups. |
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This is insanity. SSD is god. Failures are extremely rare. No SSD, no performance. |
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