2018-12-10
A year ago now, I posted about having problems with my computer and it’s LAN jack. Recently the problems have expanded with me randomly losing sound, and USB connectivity at various times during the day. From what I can tell, I have something wrong with the board.
I thought it over carefully, and rather than tearing apart the whole thing, replacing the board, and putting the whole thing back together again on a five year old, heavily used workstation…I’d upgrade everything (for the most part)
Right now, I have an i7-8700K and all the sundries in route. Case, power supply, ram, board, the whole shootin’ match. In addition, the processor and board I am getting will let me upgrade to 64gbs of RAM here soon, as well.
It all gets here Wednesday. I’m doing backups on everything now. I’ll put everything together when it gets here and get it all ironed out. I’ll keep you all up to date on the situation as it goes.
There does come a time when you just can’t keep doing individual upgrades and finding out piecemeal that parts aren’t compatible anymore.
A single big bang can be worth it an if that means some downtime, so be it.
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With that much RAM, you should consider a configuration that lets you use ECC memory. My last 3 machines all used ECC and I’ve had cause to be thankful that I did.
You have to go to Xeon to get ECC support and recent reviews seem to contra-indicate XEON as an option. Modern RAM doesn’t seem to have a high enough failure rate to justify the additional expense. Besides, XEON doesn’t OC for shit. 😉
I was going to mention the Core i9 stuff but those are egg fryers AND over-priced. 😉
Yeah, I’m partial to the i7’s personally…the i9’s, I don’t know, but I have a feeling that we may be coming up on a situation like what happened with the P4 Northwood/Prescott heat deal that necessitated a shift in architecture to the Pentium 3 base (that led to Core, Core II Duo and onwards to the present.
I agree with you and on further research, I cannot recommend Core i9s to anyone. Yeah, they get REALLY hot! By reports, you can actually OC i7-8900K to higher values before thermal throttling kicks in.
I remember when AMD was operating under a similar thermal disadvantage, intel complacency has reversed the circumstances?
I think you are correct.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHQ_OdA-8IU
I recommend Gamer’s Nexus as a YouTube channel to watch 😉
Link to Gamer’s Nexus
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChIs72whgZI9w6d6FhwGGHA
Heads-up appreciated. No worries; take your time and end up with a machine you’re happy with.
My Desktop machine is in the same state. I am going the MB route because I’m a little behind the 8-ball cash wise.
For anyone looking to buy/build computers right now:
Intel is extremely overpriced right now due to manufacturing failures moving to the new 10nm lithography … AMD Ryzen is about *half* the cost for equivalent performance at the 14nm lithography.
Intel still holds a tiny lead in single-threaded performance comparisons, but that’s boring.
And AMD has just successfully released 7nm (though the numbers aren’t directly comparable) to the server market, which is probably good for another 2 years’ dominance until Intel finally fixes their manufacturing.
NVidia still beats *everyone* in the high-end GPU market, though, despite recent stumbling.
And all of the AMD Ryzen chips support ECC. AMD doesn’t force segment the market the way Intel does. If I were building a major machine now, it would be a Ryzen 7 2600 with ECC memory.
The problem is that Ryzen doesn’t work with the OTAY 3D rendering software.
Are you sure about that? There shouldn’t be any difference unless the software manufacturer had used some undocumented features in an Intel compiler – the same way they ‘adjust’ benchmarks.
I have moved us over to all Ryzen processor based workstations in the drafting and modelling department without any problems.
I only know from reports. I haven’t been tempted to risk my own money on it. The OTAY software has some restrictions (NVIDIA).