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| And so it begins |
At the end of 2020, I decided it was time to update my PC as it has never been done for over 10 years. The choice I had was to purchase a new PC or rebuild what I have, I decided to rebuild the existing PC I have. I choose this as it gives me what I want, I do the upgrades, order the parts that I want and I can leave room for further upgrades in the future. The items I kept were my ATX tower, 750-watt power supply (as it was very new) GeForce GT 740 video card,1TB Western Digital Black and a 1TB Seagate hard drive for backup purposes.
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| One new 2 old hard drives |
The replacement parts were the following:
MSI MPG Z490 This is a very nice motherboard with room for expansion.
Intel i5 10600K Comet Lake 4.1 GHz
Cool Master Hyper 212 CPU cooling fan
Crucial MX500 1TB SSD Hard drive
The new PC build works great and I finally made the jump to Win10 as my OS. The SSD hard drive is a very nice change and the speed is great. My not so old Western Digital 1 TB hard drive now holds my SSD image files and my Seagate 1 TB drive hold my SSD hard drive clones. By the way, the backup software that I use is Macruim Reflect. It is easy to use and has worked for me without any issues and while using Windows 7 I had to use it twice. If you are a home user the software is free to download and use.
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| RAM and CPU fan installed |
While I was doing the build I did had a comment on my blog where a reader made me aware of a site called Ask woody. This site is a great resource for PC users and to have full access a donation is asked for. I made my donation and got full access as it's a great place to learn and get feedback. Did I have any issues with the build......yes I did. For starters the Cool Master CPU fan instructions were TERRIBLE and thank goodness I found a YouTube video on how to install the fan on my i5 chip. EVEN with a video I messed up a bit and installed the fan on the CPU facing the wrong direction and I only knew this once I tried to install the RAM and it did not fit. The fan and assembly had to be rotated 180 degrees and then all was good for the RAM installation. When I initialized and formatted the SSD hard drive I'm not sure what I did but it had to be done again as when the OS was in the process of the install I was getting error messages about the SSD hard drive.
Next, it was time to install all radio programs and the software that runs alongside them. I am happy to say that all software installed without issue and I am up and running and very happy with the upgrade.
4 comments:
Well done Mike! I decided to replace my old computer a few years ago. I'm glad I did and am shure you will be glad as well. The SSD makes booting som much faster. Have a nice time....73, Bas
Good evening Bas, I am thrilled with the upgrade, and I am glad I have the skill to do it myself and get what I want. The boot time is very fast.
73,
Mike
VE9KK
Sounds like you did a great job Mike. I rebuilt mine recently, to make an up to date FlightSim PC. SSD's make a dramatic difference don't they? Just remember not to fill them up - leave a chunk of the drive empty. Enjoy your new machine.
73, Tom, M7MCQ.
Good morning Tom, yes the SSD is great and at this point it is only about a 1/16 full and in the past most of my 1 TB drives have never made it to even half way full.
Have a great Friday and weekend,
73,
Mike
VE9KK
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