computer-upgrade_dec24_01

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 09:10:37 -0500

21DEC24 - This must be one of the longest stretches with no uploads in awhile..seventeen days. Main reason is, I was couped up in here for well over a week nearly round the clock scanning slides and prints. Wound up with a bit over a thousand slide images and over three hundred print images. Needless to say it was a chore with which I am MOST glad to be finished. But, it did add a whole bunch of new photos to the albums, mostly oldies.

Anyway..also during this period, my six or seven year old PC's power supply gave up the ghost but at the time, I didnt know what the problem was. Tried a new PS and added a graphics card at the same time but that didn't fix it so I took it to a local repair joint. Turns out I had reversed two connectors on the new power supply and when those were re-reversed, the machine powered right up so it was the PS all along.

But while they had the box, I decided it was time for some upgrades so I went from a 4th gen i9 CPU to a 14th gen. Had to upgrade the system board to support the CPU and because these current chips run even hotter than previous gens, I went with a liquid CPU cooler. Also had to upgrade the DDR2 or 3 to two sticks of 32gb DDR5. These along with the new nVidia card have made the machine about 25-50 percent faster and that's a blessing.