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- SL Rez
- 2006
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- 07-25-2012
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My started having issues with intermittent freezing/lockups and trouble booting in mid/late December, SMART wasn't giving me any error issues and the RAM checked out, I figure either there was a motherboard issue or the CPU was failing somehow, or else the hard drive was failing in a way SMART didn't pick up. (no temp issues). The issues started happening more frequently so I did a search for another office-style refurb. since the machine WAS getting long in the tooth and I wanted a more modern machine with a more modern CPU (and USB 3.0). I eventually chose a HP EliteDesk 800 G1 with an i7-4790 (3.6Ghz), 16GB of RAM and a 2TB hard drive. While out at the local Enormo-mart doing my weekly shopping a few days before the machine arrived, I picked up another external drive to do the /home backup. (I have one, but it's partitioned weirdly because I was dumb). While there I saw they had cheap basic SSD's, WD Blue's, so I picked one up.
I partitioned the new external ext4 and used deja-dup to do the backup I was worried about the old machine acting up again, but it made it through the backup thankfully. The new machine arrived Wednesday (yesterday), opened her up, slapped my RAM from the older machine in to take it up to a full 32GB (had a couple of older sticks to put in the old machine, just in case), installed the SSD (didn't have the special slide in mount screws for the SSD so I just laid it in the frame for now until the special m3 mount screws arrive), installed the video card (GTX 1050 TI SC 4GB) and put the Live XFCE spin in the DVD drive.
Sadly the machine's motherboard uses weird connectors for power so I couldn't slap in my cooler master 550W, but that's okay for now since the one in it is a 320w which is enough. I can get a cable and do some wire switching to hook it up, or I can seek out one of HP's 500w supplies, (which cost a bit over 100 bucks and are on backorder)
And yeah, the slightly more modern CPU helps with SL, I figured the old Phenom II x4 was bottlenecking the GTX1050 TI. I went from around 8 fps to around 20fps at the Teahouse with a similar number of people in view.
I partitioned the new external ext4 and used deja-dup to do the backup I was worried about the old machine acting up again, but it made it through the backup thankfully. The new machine arrived Wednesday (yesterday), opened her up, slapped my RAM from the older machine in to take it up to a full 32GB (had a couple of older sticks to put in the old machine, just in case), installed the SSD (didn't have the special slide in mount screws for the SSD so I just laid it in the frame for now until the special m3 mount screws arrive), installed the video card (GTX 1050 TI SC 4GB) and put the Live XFCE spin in the DVD drive.
Sadly the machine's motherboard uses weird connectors for power so I couldn't slap in my cooler master 550W, but that's okay for now since the one in it is a 320w which is enough. I can get a cable and do some wire switching to hook it up, or I can seek out one of HP's 500w supplies, (which cost a bit over 100 bucks and are on backorder)
And yeah, the slightly more modern CPU helps with SL, I figured the old Phenom II x4 was bottlenecking the GTX1050 TI. I went from around 8 fps to around 20fps at the Teahouse with a similar number of people in view.