Updated my PC

[Penatr8tor]

I upgraded my current desktop PC with a new motherboard, processor and memory. I reused my case, drives, AIO cooler and graphics card. 

I built the PC in Sept of 2019 and it's been a good performer for the past 5 years without issue, sadly it was getting long in the tooth and wasn't windows 11 compatible so it will end up doing duty as an upgrade to my secondary PC.

Old processor was a Core i9 9900K. Old motherboard was an Asus ROG Maximus XI Code. Old memory was 64 gig (4x16) of Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200.

The new processor is a Core i9 13900K. New motherboard is an Asus TUFF Gaming Z790-Plus WiFi. And the new memory is 64gig (2x32) of G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5 6400.

Install was pretty straight forward with all of the cables plugging into the same connectors in the same locations as the previous board. Gotta love Asus keeping things in the same place.

Backed up my data and did a fresh Windows 11 Pro install. Cost was ~$800 US, pricy but then again what isn't these days. To build the full PC would have been very close to $3K, possibly more.

The PC as it stands currently has.

NZXT Case and AIO cooler with 280mm fans and large radiator. Corsair RMX 850i PSU. Graphics card is an Asus TUFF RTX3080 Ti

Below are a couple pics.

[PFarm]

I love the Asus motherboards. I built a few PC with their boards. My son just bought a new gaming PC, new games require high graphic processing 2/3 of the cost was the water-cooled graphic card. You're right in saying a new PC would have cost you more than 3K plus it's always a pleasure to build one over buying one! Nicely done!

[sleepster217]

17 hours ago, PFarm said:

I love the Asus motherboards. I built a few PC with their boards. My son just bought a new gaming PC, new games require high graphic processing 2/3 of the cost was the water-cooled graphic card. You're right in saying a new PC would have cost you more than 3K plus it's always a pleasure to build one over buying one! Nicely done!

Nice

[Penatr8tor]

@PFarm Agree. In my experience... Building my own PC has always been better than buying one. If not from a performance standpoint, definitely from a quality standpoint. Nowadays however, you're not getting the equivalent performance increase that you used to get but that really just translates into the benefit of not have to upgrade as often. I got a good 5 years out of the last build and for the first in in probably forever I was able to reuse most of my previous build. And you can't go wrong with Asus stuff. I've probably built a dozen PC's with Asus motherboards over the years. This past February I bought a new laptop, an Asus ROG Strix G18 with Core i9-14900HX, 32gb of DDR5 RAM, 1TB NVME SSD and an RTX-4070. After using it for the last couple of weeks working onsite at a client. I was like... This thing really rips... I'm definitely going to upgrade my PC when I get back. Mission accomplished I guess LOL.

[5twenty]

I have about 30 computers lying around in various states, from only building my and kids' PCs for the last 30+ years.

I figure I'll make something one day out of all of them, but yet they sit.

Throw old tech away!

[Penatr8tor]

@5twenty Hahaha I went thru that process a good 15 years ago. I had tons of old MB's and drives and old graphics cards from many, many PC builds over the decades. I decided to just save one of each processor and so I just had to pull out the cookie box of chips to share.

This should bring back some memories... There's a good amount of nostalgia in this box, 80286 and 80287 math coprocessor, 386, 486, various Pentiums and look at the size of that Pentium Pro LOL. I even have a DEC Alpha in there.

[5twenty]

22 hours ago, Penatr8tor said:

@5twenty Hahaha I went thru that process a good 15 years ago. I had tons of old MB's and drives and old graphics cards from many, many PC builds over the decades. I decided to just save one of each processor and so I just had to pull out the cookie box of chips to share.

This should bring back some memories... There's a good amount of nostalgia in this box, 80286 and 80287 math coprocessor, 386, 486, various Pentiums and look at the size of that Pentium Pro LOL. I even have a DEC Alpha in there.

I like that idea. And I do not miss those old Pentium II weird-ass stand-up processors, at all. Nor the celeries (though I didn't build a lot of stations with them luckily).

I'll have to do the same, though I'll split my Intels and AMDs into separate displays.

Yes, lots of memories. I can pull out some old tapes and discs to get really into the nostalgia, if I still have them laying around too.

[Penatr8tor]

@5twentyGood idea! I think putting them into a shadow box frame would be a really cool idea. Maybe label each with the processor name and date range for each.

Would be super cool for the office be it home or work.

I also have an old Seagate ST4038 full height 5 1/4" hard drive. Weighs about 6 lbs. and has a whopping 30 megabytes of storage. 

[claudermilk]

LOL, if only I had thought to keep each type of processor. I could go back to the 8086 even--no, wait, the Z80. I also remember those gigantic 20MB hard drives.

[5twenty]

Haha, good memories now. So innocent and eager we were back then. Who would have thought eccentric hobbies would become our overlords?

[sleepster217]

7 hours ago, claudermilk said:

LOL, if only I had thought to keep each type of processor. I could go back to the 8086 even--no, wait, the Z80. I also remember those gigantic 20MB hard drives.

Good friend of mine use to work in IT doing networking in big businesses and use to keep some of the old stuff that use to come through if u might rember the 5inch floppy disks and the 3.5 as well that were a lot stiffer he had one that was like the 5inch soft ish but was bigger like 7 inch not 100percent sure the size but was bigger was funny

[Penatr8tor]

I remember making a copy of AutoCAD for myself... It was AutoCAD 14 I think, and it came on 8-10 3.5 1.44meg floppies. I remember buying my first 1 gig hard drive for $1000. And even further back my first PC, A 386-33mhz with 2 meg RAM and a 120 meg HDD, it cost me $6k, and that was in 1985 dollars. Now I literally spend a small fraction of that and get something 10x faster than a Cray supercomputer. I would guess that a Pi4B is faster than my $6K 386 from the 80's.

Times have definitely changed.

[Penatr8tor]

I went and asked Co-Pilot AI and here's what I got...

 

The performance difference between the Raspberry Pi 4 and the Intel 386 in terms of MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) is quite substantial.

1. Raspberry Pi 4:

   • The ARM Cortex-A72 processor in the Raspberry Pi 4 can achieve around 2,000 MIPS per core¹. With its quad-core setup, the total performance can be approximately 8,000 MIPS.

2. Intel 386 (33 MHz):

   • The Intel 386 processor, running at 33 MHz, typically achieves around 11 MIPS².

This means the Raspberry Pi 4 is roughly 727 times faster in terms of MIPS compared to the Intel 386.

 

[claudermilk]

16 hours ago, sleepster217 said:

Good friend of mine use to work in IT doing networking in big businesses and use to keep some of the old stuff that use to come through if u might rember the 5inch floppy disks and the 3.5 as well that were a lot stiffer he had one that was like the 5inch soft ish but was bigger like 7 inch not 100percent sure the size but was bigger was funny

That would be 8" Yes, I remember those too. I used those when working in the computer lab in college--back when the college had and needed a dedicated computer lab building. Oh, and we had a couple of disassembled ones pinned to the wall. That had been left in a hot car during the summer as a warning to not do that.

34 minutes ago, Penatr8tor said:

I went and asked Co-Pilot AI and here's what I got...

The performance difference between the Raspberry Pi 4 and the Intel 386 in terms of MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) is quite substantial.

1. Raspberry Pi 4:

   • The ARM Cortex-A72 processor in the Raspberry Pi 4 can achieve around 2,000 MIPS per core¹. With its quad-core setup, the total performance can be approximately 8,000 MIPS.

2. Intel 386 (33 MHz):

   • The Intel 386 processor, running at 33 MHz, typically achieves around 11 MIPS².

This means the Raspberry Pi 4 is roughly 727 times faster in terms of MIPS compared to the Intel 386.

Dang! Progress! I've mentioned that the little pocket super computers we all carry around now & take for granted are far more powerful than the early mainframes that took whole rooms. That puts things into perspective. :mindblown:

[Penatr8tor]

19 minutes ago, claudermilk said:

Oh, and we had a couple of disassembled ones pinned to the wall. That had been left in a hot car during the summer as a warning to not do that.

Hahahaha,

I remember there was a guy that complained that his floppy disks were getting corrupted. So, we grabbed a new floppy drive to install in his PC, assuming that his drive was bad, and when we got to his office... He had half a dozen floppies stuck to the side of his file cabinet with magnets.

Mystery solved