RE: The mysterious and complicated tale about building a computer 🖥 from used parts

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CPU speed isn't all that important for Windows 10+ (unless you are doing something CPU intensive like video editing or modern gaming) but if you don't have at least 8GB of RAM (16 GB is better) and an SSD, it's going to run like crap. If you have 4GB and a mechanical hard drive, you might as well turn it on in the morning and then come back after lunch because it will take that long before it is responsive.



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I agree, although that £13.50 Intel Xeon X5675 runs snappy at 3ghz - I am even more amazed it works at all how it was packaged! I would not go near a mechanical hard drive for boot now, and I think we are seeing a slow phase out as SSD becomes better value. Of course they are now getting replaced with NVME which offers blazing speeds - and as modern motherboards keep supporting multiple NVME drives the days of fiddling with SATA data and power cables are numbered too - I won't miss that!

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The X5675 is my favorite CPU from that generation. It was the fastest/had the most cores you could get without going to a hotter/more power hungry model. I still have a dual cpu machine here that has two of them installed.

I don't mind SATA cables too much. They were such a big improvement on IDE :). I think it will be quite a while before SATA goes away though. Solid state drives still aren't really all that economical for storing/backing up large amounts of data (though I suppose this type of thing could go all external...USB or whatever). Just backing up all your videos and photos from your cell phone can take up gobs of space.

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