[herbie]

Parts got in today slapped together a Ryzen5 3600 6core 12 thread with 16GB DDR3200 a 256GB NVMe SSD and a hand me down GTX950 video card.
Win 10 install took only about 10 minutes... boots up in 19 seconds, installed Affinity Publisher in like 10 seconds...
From an ancient X2 255 (cpubenchmark 1094) to a benchmark just under 18,000 she just flies. And to think that old X2, tweaked and decrappified was faster than 75% of customer computers that come in.........

[DrCaleb]

Which NVMe SSD? Not all are created equal!

I have 2 Samsung 970 Pro's in stripe mode, and my 16 core 32 thread Threadripper boots into Linux is less than 7 seconds. (from the logo screen)

Things have improved since your old X2, amirite?

[BartSimpson]

herbie herbie:

Parts got in today slapped together a Ryzen5 3600 6core 12 thread with 16GB DDR3200 a 256GB NVMe SSD and a hand me down GTX950 video card.
Win 10 install took only about 10 minutes... boots up in 19 seconds, installed Affinity Publisher in like 10 seconds...
From an ancient X2 255 (cpubenchmark 1094) to a benchmark just under 18,000 she just flies. And to think that old X2, tweaked and decrappified was faster than 75% of customer computers that come in.........

[llama66]

I just built a Ryzen 7 3700x, with a 1Tb NVMe and holy shit is it fast.

[BartSimpson]

I didn't build this but instead just bought it from HP.

$1:

Omen by HP Obelisk Desktop 875-1040st
Product number:
Serial # :
•Energy Star
•FLAG EPEAT
•MISC HEVC MEDIA EXTENSION HP
•WARR 1/1/0 US
•HP OMEN 1C19 Country Kit US
•19C1 Cycle AV
•DIB WARRANTY 1Y US ENG HP INC
•NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2080Ti (11 GB GDDR6 dedicated)
•OMEN by HP Obelisk Desktop PC - 875-1040st CTO
•3 TB 7200 rpm SATA
•No Secondary storage
•No Third storage
•HP black wired keyboard with volume control and wired optical mouse kit
•McAfee Livesafe (30 day)
•HyperX 64GB (4x16GB) DDR4 2666 UDIMM
•Shadow Black front bezel, glass cover with 750W PSU
•802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2x2) Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® 4.2 M.2 combo
•Office Trial
•Windows 10 Pro Plus
•16 GB NVMe™ Intel® Optane™ Memory for storage acceleration
•MISC PKG Sgl PK TWR Dotcom 19C1
•Power Cord
•9th generation Intel® Core™ i9-9900K Processor with liquid cooling
•No RAID

Had to reimage it right out of the box to kill off the bloatware, added a 4TB second drive from my old computer, and still need to install some additional fans.

Runs great but a little on the hot side.

The video output is awesome!

[BartSimpson]

I've got 48GB (6x8) of Corsair Vengeance DDR3 RAM and a 6GB Nvidia GeForce video card left over from the old machine.

[herbie]

Adata NVMe, rated 3500. Bought it on the price to be upgraded later. Like the Gigabyte mobo, two empty RAM slots for future. Was going to reuse an ancient SATA SSD.... but for $60 WTH. Glad I did.
Did a clean Windows install rather than a clone disk, so today I get to reinstall all my software and add in the old TB data drive.
For what I do, it's massive overkill. I also have a mobo - plugin adapter for 3.5" drives hanging out the back. Rescuing pix and dox from old dead systems is a big part of my work.
That picture of grandson planting his face in the birthday cake is just SO important!

[BartSimpson]

herbie herbie:

Adata NVMe, rated 3500. Bought it on the price to be upgraded later. Like the Gigabyte mobo, two empty RAM slots for future. Was going to reuse an ancient SATA SSD.... but for $60 WTH. Glad I did.
Did a clean Windows install rather than a clone disk, so today I get to reinstall all my software and add in the old TB data drive.
For what I do, it's massive overkill. I also have a mobo - plugin adapter for 3.5" drives hanging out the back. Rescuing pix and dox from old dead systems is a big part of my work.
That picture of grandson planting his face in the birthday cake is just SO important!

There is no kill like overkill.

[llama66]

That RAM is a touch too slow, Bart. But I guess when you have 64Gb of it, it doesn't really matter.

[BartSimpson]

llama66 llama66:

That RAM is a touch too slow, Bart. But I guess when you have 64Gb of it, it doesn't really matter.

The 16GB of Optane more than offsets any slowness on RAM

[xerxes]

herbie herbie:

Parts got in today slapped together a Ryzen5 3600 6core 12 thread with 16GB DDR3200 a 256GB NVMe SSD and a hand me down GTX950 video card.
Win 10 install took only about 10 minutes... boots up in 19 seconds, installed Affinity Publisher in like 10 seconds...
From an ancient X2 255 (cpubenchmark 1094) to a benchmark just under 18,000 she just flies. And to think that old X2, tweaked and decrappified was faster than 75% of customer computers that come in.........

[herbie]

I bet the old motherboard was only SATA 2... even the old spinner drive is faster!

Oh well, it's now a $100 Buy&Sell special. The old SSD will Berryboot the Pi soon enough.

[raydan]

[Freakinoldguy]

herbie herbie:

Parts got in today slapped together a Ryzen5 3600 6core 12 thread with 16GB DDR3200 a 256GB NVMe SSD and a hand me down GTX950 video card.
Win 10 install took only about 10 minutes... boots up in 19 seconds, installed Affinity Publisher in like 10 seconds...
From an ancient X2 255 (cpubenchmark 1094) to a benchmark just under 18,000 she just flies. And to think that old X2, tweaked and decrappified was faster than 75% of customer computers that come in.........

Let me know how the 3600 runs. I'm planning on upgrading my system and was torn between a 3600 and a 3600X. But after watching a couple of comparison video's they say there isn't much difference but the price so I'm still trying to make my mind up which one to go with.

[herbie]

That's what it boiled down to, the 3600X was damn near $100 more for $5 worth of performance boost.