What we did last Sunday
Adam got a new computer...
Bits include:
A CoolerMaster MasterCase 5 Pro
A Corsair RM750i 750W power supply (in case he decides to overclock the crap out of it and add a gazillion hard drives and another graphics card and all)
ASRock X370 Taichi Motherboard (Good feature set without being stupidly expensive - a couple more case fan headers would have been nice though....)
AMD Ryzen 7 1700 CPU (possibly to be overclocked in the future)
16GB Corsair Vengance 3200 Memory (It actually works as advertised with the latest BIOS, as well...)
A Gigabyte Geforce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming video card (Gotta push thouse 1080p frames...)
A 500GB Samsung 960 EVO nVME SSD (Almost sub-second boot times - this thing's speedy)
A 4TB WD Black mechanical hard drive (lots of (relatively) fast space - on a clear disk you can seek forever)
An LG Blu-Ray burner (for creating dvds and things as needed)
A Razer Blackwidow Chroma keyboard (because...errr...RGB?)
Windows 10 Home (the Microsoft tax must be paid...)
I put it together with his...help ;)
The only hiccup was trying to get Windows installed - the Taichi will not boot from a USB plugged into a front USB port, but is perfectly happy to boot from one on the back panel. This may have delayed things somewhat, particularly as the board happily updated its BIOS from a USB stick in the front panel....odd.
Otherwise it's a screamer...I'm jealous...
What we did last Sunday
Adam got a new computer...
Bits include:
A CoolerMaster MasterCase 5 Pro
A Corsair RM750i 750W power supply (in case he decides to overclock the crap out of it and add a gazillion hard drives and another graphics card and all)
ASRock X370 Taichi Motherboard (Good feature set without being stupidly expensive - a couple more case fan headers would have been nice though....)
AMD Ryzen 7 1700 CPU (possibly to be overclocked in the future)
16GB Corsair Vengance 3200 Memory (It actually works as advertised with the latest BIOS, as well...)
A Gigabyte Geforce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming video card (Gotta push thouse 1080p frames...)
A 500GB Samsung 960 EVO nVME SSD (Almost sub-second boot times - this thing's speedy)
A 4TB WD Black mechanical hard drive (lots of (relatively) fast space - on a clear disk you can seek forever)
An LG Blu-Ray burner (for creating dvds and things as needed)
A Razer Blackwidow Chroma keyboard (because...errr...RGB?)
Windows 10 Home (the Microsoft tax must be paid...)
I put it together with his...help ;)
The only hiccup was trying to get Windows installed - the Taichi will not boot from a USB plugged into a front USB port, but is perfectly happy to boot from one on the back panel. This may have delayed things somewhat, particularly as the board happily updated its BIOS from a USB stick in the front panel....odd.
Otherwise it's a screamer...I'm jealous...