Thanks to all that helped me with my PC

To all that helped me on this thread....

"need help with a lost drive. Win 7"
www.abovetopsecret.com...

.... I can't thank you enough.
Btw the disk IO errors were the USB hubs - all drives and the external were OK

Managed to get most of my Data back. Bought a new Ryzen 3 3100 3.6Ghz 4 Core 8 Thread, 32G DDR6 ram. Super fast and with 3 extra 2 Tb drives shouldn't have any issues for a while.
My eldest son showed me how to set up a network share between the 2 and my youngest helped me get rid of useless Win 10 apps and features.

Next step after a long rest is set up a dual boot into Zorin

a reply to: TheConstruKctionofLight

Next step is VR... IF you have a video card to go with that system

Just sayin

originally posted by: TheConstruKctionofLight
To all that helped me on this thread....

"need help with a lost drive. Win 7"
www.abovetopsecret.com...

.... I can't thank you enough.
Btw the disk IO errors were the USB hubs - all drives and the external were OK

Managed to get most of my Data back. Bought a new Ryzen 3 3100 3.6Ghz 4 Core 8 Thread, 32G DDR6 ram. Super fast and with 3 extra 2 Tb drives shouldn't have any issues for a while.
My eldest son showed me how to set up a network share between the 2 and my youngest helped me get rid of useless Win 10 apps and features.

Next step after a long rest is set up a dual boot into Zorin

Welcome to the club.
I hope you have at least the Nvidia 2000 series or better yet , the Nvidia 3000 series to drive the video.
Lose the mechanical drives and go all m.2
2 x 2TB NVME M.2 PCIe 3 x 4.0 does the trick.

a reply to: Akragon

hahaha - yeah I have to check the specs

"Gigabyte GeForce GTX1650 OC 4GB GDDR6"

originally posted by: TheConstruKctionofLight
a reply to: Akragon

hahaha - yeah I have to check the specs

"Gigabyte GeForce GTX1650 OC 4GB GDDR6"

EVGA 2060 KO Ultra 6gb
As good as the 2070 (at least) and has the 2080 chipset.
Comes in at about $300
About 10x the performance of the 1600 series.

a reply to: Gothmog

?
Gigabyte GeForce vs nvidia google

NVIDIA doesn't usually sell graphics cards directly to end users. So in theory, they could be quite different in quality. ... NVIDIA partners/customers (EVGA, Asus, Gigabyte, etc) buy these chips, design all the support circuitry for them (adding memory, power regulation, interfaces, etc), and sell the actual cards

Lose the mechanical drives and go all m.2
2 x 2TB NVME M.2 PCIe 3 x 4.0 does the trick

Ah yes - my son told me he had one of these now - after I configured the Build. They' were probably trying help me keeping costs down

a reply to: TheConstruKctionofLight
Wait , Gigabyte does produce Nvidia cards.
Nvidia DOES sell their own cards . FE (Founder's Editions also called Reference)
The reason I mention the EVGA 2060 KO Ultra , it is nearly as good as cards costing 3x as much .

Take 2 m.2s and run em in a RAID 0 and you have speed to loan out....
Except , back them up regularly .
The warranty on em goes out in 3 years , but most are rated for 1,500 TBW (Terabyte Writes) on the average now . About 8 years of very heavy usage,

a reply to: Gothmog

Take 2 m.2s and run em in a RAID 0

Maybe in a years time. Adequate storage for now. I deleted over 2TB of movies but kept a list of them so I don't download them again

a reply to: Akragon

Building my first computer now.. VR ready. I can't wait.

originally posted by: TheConstruKctionofLight
a reply to: Gothmog

Take 2 m.2s and run em in a RAID 0

Maybe in a years time. Adequate storage for now. I deleted over 2TB of movies but kept a list of them so I don't download them again

That's the beauty of building you own PCs
You don't have to buy everything at once.

You have a great start , that AMD 3100 will be good for a while to come.
The memory is outstanding .
Don't forget to set the XMP profile in the UEFI (the only way to get the most bang for your buck from memory)

You have done a bit of future-proofing.

a reply to: TheConstruKctionofLight

Good to hear it's all up and going!

a reply to: chr0naut

Thank you, and again thanks for your help in the other thread