Re: New Box Build.
Sounds like some of us are giving ourselves upgrades for Christmas. Just finished mine...new motherboard, i7 processor, 32 gig RAM. Booted to Win 10 Pro with no problems. Image files all moved to a 5TB, USB 3 external drive. -p On 12/13/2016 7:49 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: So Friday I decided to finally upgrade my Photo PC to Win7. Saturday I obtained a small fast HD for the system and a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. After two days of update HELL, (can someone please tell me why Microsoft has created an updating system that's so buggy that it tries to install already installed updates multiple times). I decided to buy a SSD from which to run the OS and primary programs , and bought the cheapest 240gb SSD I could find. The improvement in performance is phenomenal. Even though the drive is cheap, (did I mention that?), it /seems/ to be hundreds of times faster than the mechanical drive. Which will still serve a purpose. It's going to be a live backup of the finished system, just in case. Now all I have to do is install all my data HDs and reinstall my tools, but reboots, and configurations take orders of magnitude less time. Next upgrade will be to max out the memory. -- Being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: New Box Build.
On 12/13/2016 8:49 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: So Friday I decided to finally upgrade my Photo PC to Win7. Saturday I obtained a small fast HD for the system and a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. After two days of update HELL, (can someone please tell me why Microsoft has created an updating system that's so buggy that it tries to install already installed updates multiple times). I decided to buy a SSD from which to run the OS and primary programs , and bought the cheapest 240gb SSD I could find. The improvement in performance is phenomenal. Even though the drive is cheap, (did I mention that?), it /seems/ to be hundreds of times faster than the mechanical drive. Which will still serve a purpose. It's going to be a live backup of the finished system, just in case. Now all I have to do is install all my data HDs and reinstall my tools, but reboots, and configurations take orders of magnitude less time. Next upgrade will be to max out the memory. Another thing that can speed Photoshop is to add a second SSD & use it for nothing but Photoshop's scratch disk. NewEgg has 120GB SSDs for less than $50. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
New Box Build.
So Friday I decided to finally upgrade my Photo PC to Win7. Saturday I obtained a small fast HD for the system and a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. After two days of update HELL, (can someone please tell me why Microsoft has created an updating system that's so buggy that it tries to install already installed updates multiple times). I decided to buy a SSD from which to run the OS and primary programs , and bought the cheapest 240gb SSD I could find. The improvement in performance is phenomenal. Even though the drive is cheap, (did I mention that?), it /seems/ to be hundreds of times faster than the mechanical drive. Which will still serve a purpose. It's going to be a live backup of the finished system, just in case. Now all I have to do is install all my data HDs and reinstall my tools, but reboots, and configurations take orders of magnitude less time. Next upgrade will be to max out the memory. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
