henke on 24/2/2015 at 11:17
Ok, we're back on track. Went to Multitronic's store in the neighbouring city today and changed the LGA2011-socket i7 for a LGA1150-socket i7. (
http://www.multitronic.fi/showprod.php?prod_id=BX80646I74770K&b=1?setlang=en) This one. It's only 3.5GHz compared to the other one's 3.7GHz, but it comes with a heatsink and thermal paste as standard. I was a bit worried about getting it exchanged since I'd already opened the box and broken the seal, but they were ok with it, even knocked 20 euros off the price for my hassle. Nice guys!
Now to put this thing together!
henke on 24/2/2015 at 13:50
It's built! As in, all the pieces have now been fitted together. Gonna eat dinner before I plug it in and start installing Windows.
edit: everything seems to work. Very nice BIOS setup screen that shows you temperature of CPU AND lets you use the mouse! (this is 2015!) Downloading a Win8.1 iso now using the Windows Media Creation tool.
bikerdude on 24/2/2015 at 16:31
Benchmarks please :cheeky:
henke on 24/2/2015 at 20:12
It worked! I'm posting from my new computer! Whee! :D
Getting Win 8.1 to work was surprisingly painless!
Now then. What I did with the SSD was partition it up into 50GB for Windows, 184GB for the rest. However it seems something is wonky with the second partition, tried installing Firefox on it but it claims that there's 0 bytes free on it. Plenty of bytes free however. Formated it to NTSF. Tried copying files over to it and it works just fine. Hmm, anyone got any ideas? I'm not gonna get into it just now. It's late and I'm glad to have this thing up and running, will set stuff up tomorrow.
What kinda benchmark should I do? Is 3DMark still the thing to use?
Dahenjo on 25/2/2015 at 01:52
I just did a similar upgrade from a Phenom II X4 955 on an AM2+ mobo to a Core i5 4690K on an ASUS Z97M-Plus mobo. Used existing tower/server case w/OCZ 600W ps, 8GB of GSkill 1600 RAM, Radeon HD 6870, and 1TB HDD which is now a data drive. Since the new mobo has a (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.2) M.2 slot I got an (
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EC50A0O/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) Intel 180GB M.2 SSD to use as the system drive, and with a fresh re-install of Windows 7 64-bit it cold boots to desktop in about 10 seconds, much faster than before!
I also have my Thief games installed on the SSD and before the upgrade couldn't play Soul Tear's new campaign enjoyably, but now it's very playable so you might try that as a benchmark! ;)
Sulphur on 25/2/2015 at 04:00
3DMark is still a thing, but your best benchmark would be a game. Try Metro: Last Light/2033 and Crysis 3, if you have 'em.
henke on 25/2/2015 at 08:26
Don't have em but I see Crysis 3 is just 10 bucks on Origin, and somehow I've never played it, despite liking the first 2. Will give that a go once I've got things up and running! Currently trying to sort out my partition woes.
For the SSD I'm thinking I'll keep Unity and my projects on there, as well as some of my other most used apps, and whatever big game I'm currently playing.
edit: seems I can install things on the second SSD partition, it's only firefox I can't install there. Hmm, maybe because I downloaded the install file and had started it before I'd made the second partition? Something stuck in memory somewhere that makes the install file think there's no space on D: ? Anyway, will just install it on C:, no biggie.
Thirith on 25/2/2015 at 10:04
Just as a warning, you may find those 50GB rather stingy for Windows. It's fine at the beginning, but even if you clear out the gunk it's amazing how quickly things accumulate on the system partition. Unless you enjoy reinstalling your system on a regular basis to keep things clean, I'd consider doubling that.
Edit: Having said that, this is my experience with Windows 7. Win 8.1 might be better in that respect.
henke on 25/2/2015 at 10:34
Oh I know. I've had issues with making OS partitions too small in the past, but I feel like 50GB should be plenty. There's 21GB free right now and I intend to move My Documents, etc. to the HDD and put temp folders on the second SSD partition. I think it'll work out! (you can tell me "I told you so" when I'm whining about it in a month)
bikerdude on 25/2/2015 at 13:18
Quote Posted by henke
* Now then. What I did with the SSD was partition it up into 50GB for Windows, 184GB for the rest. However it seems something is wonky with the second partition, tried installing Firefox on it but it claims that there's 0 bytes free on it. Plenty of bytes free however. .
* What kinda benchmark should I do? Is 3DMark still the thing to use?
* I would have gone for 64/160 as is my current setup, drop me a PM with your skype/steam ID so I can remote in and have a look at the issue for you. We also have the option of resizing/aligning the partitions with a free tool called "(
http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html) Partition Wizard"
* Thats a good one to start with for the GPU, then run CrystalDiskmark on the SSD.
