Just on the hardware subject ... That new PC I had last week where the video was dead was examined more closely by my friend, who was bewildered by what was wrong. In frustration he reset the CMOS, then everything started working normally -- *GK*
On 3 February 2016 at 14:28, Nathan Schultz <milish...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been looking at refreshing my system as well. I'm not sure why you'd > consider a Haswell system over SkyLake? > > The price difference between something like an Intel i5-4590 (Haswell) and > an Intel i5-6500 (Skylake) is ~$15. > And the price difference between 8GB of DDR3 (1600Mhz) and 8GB of DDR4 > (2133Mhz) is ~$20 (at least for Kingston). > > I don't know where you're shopping to see three-fold price differences. > > > > > On 2 February 2016 at 19:51, Ian Thomas <il.tho...@outlook.com> wrote: > >> I’m a bit ignorant of this, being a “slow adopter” – so would appreciate >> some opinions. >> >> Apart from being ready for another self-build, a 15yo releative is keen >> to build himself a gaming PC that will last a few years [his choice of >> graphics card is based on the Nvidia GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 chipset, which is >> expensive: the Asus ASUS STRIX GeForce GTX 970, (Base: 1140MHz, Boost: >> 1279MHz), 4096MB (7010MHz) GDDR5, PCIE3.0, Dual DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort i >> over $500 at a couple of places I’ve checked]. >> >> Someone was telling me that the LGA 2011-3 supports both DDR3 and DDR4 >> RAM, and there are some motherboards about that have slots for both types >> of memory. >> >> Is that right? >> >> The socket is used for the Intel Haswell-E and Haswell-EP CPUs. It was >> released in 2014 so now there should be some manufacturers supporting >> motherboard builds for people like me who would stuff it with DDR3 until >> the cost of DDR4 comes down by a factor of 3 or so .. >> >> >> >> Ian Thomas >> >> Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia >> >> >> > >
