Be Excellent To Each Other

The old dear BSOD-ed so hard last night it couldn't even finish rendering the BSOD itself, this looks CPU related according to the Google-o-tron, which is understandable considering it's a nine year old CPU that's been run substantially overclocked its entire life.

Overclocking costs lives!

I should get a new PC I suppose, but all my finances are tied up in chasing after stupid new cars. Like Mrs May I will have to prioritise spending in the national interest, as there is no magic money tree. I should find an Irish friend who wants a favour, as history suggests I'll discover a handy three grand in a biscuit tin under those circumstances.

Threadripper kicks ass

I'm getting my new PC imminently and I would like to transfer the files off my old PC to it. What's the best/quickest way of doing this?

I'm no expert but could I have them both connected to my router and have a home network or something? Is that hard to do?

I’m guessing it won’t be as easy as just plugging them both in and magically, they’ll see each other.

Put your old hard drive into a spare bay in your new one?

I can do that with my internal hard drive but I have an external one that needs a power supply... which I don't have.

It slots into the top of my current PC and is powered that way. I suppose I could take it out of the casing as I reckon it'll just be a normal hard drive inside but I don't know whether that would work.

Should be a normal HD in the enclosure. Pop it open and have a look.

If you don't know whether it would work you could try it and then you'd know if it would work.

Do you think that would work?

You could try it.

Windows Easy Transfer.

It's great for noobs.

Like you.

Christ, just set up the old drive as a network share!

Right click, find "sharing", give it a name. Go into the other PC, go to "network" and find the other drive.

Bosh.

Don't even need to do that.

Start, Run, \\<old PC IP address>\c$

See! That's what I wanted... some nice simple answers. I knew it would be that easy. Thank you.

Eh, in my experience copying across home networks is always slow as shit and assuming we're talking about a decent chunk of files I'd still always just plug the drive into the new machine.

Meh, an overnight xcopy would get it done easily enough. Or X Gon' Copy To Ya as it shall now be known.

If both devices are wired into the router you'd get approx 10MB/s, which makes even big copies relatively painless, especially if you just leave it going overnight.

My new PC has arrived. Expect technical questions imminently.

Expect sarcasm soon after

That's fine. I was half expecting someone would suggest I buy a PS4 instead so sarcasm will be a welcome relief.

I will preemptively answer your questions:

Add more LEDs

Get a Mac.

I'm on my new PC... and it's great.

Just like my old PC, only faster. Windows even remembered my desktop wallpaper. Spooky!

You can disable that if you don't like it. Right PITA when you have multiple PCs and they each have unique backgrounds.

I played that Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice last week and my GPU immediately sounded like Concorde. Couldn't have that so I am working on water cooling the GPU.

Got a GPU block.



Water cooled back plate (has a water immersed heat pipe right where you need it)



Rad



Got Bitspower fittings too. Mocked up a reservoir panel.



Built it up.



And now I am just waiting on the pump to arrive. Can't wait, seems like an incredible game (it looks breathtaking) I just need to get the GPU to STFU.

Inside my PC, I have these little 4 pin connector things.. What are they? Are they for a hard drive?

I've got my old hard drive which I'd like to put in this PC but I'm just looking how it would be powered. It's a Sata drive and it doesn't look like there's any Sata power cables spare.

Looks like an old floppy drive power connector.

Molex are 4 pin. So are PWM fan sockets/wires. I would put a pic up. You can get Molex to SATA very cheaply (like £2 inc on Ebay).

Just got a packed noti on my pump and pump top, so hopefully by the end of the week I can resume heavy gaming About 15 hours into a Fallout 4 playthrough too, so want to get back quickly as poss. Just can't stand the noise.

Didn't see the pic, yeah that's floppy.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Delock-Cable- ... Sw2tRZcIqk

Properly shopping around for a new PC and prices appear to have gone super-silly, dollars equal pounds and euros equal pounds and everything seems to cost more than it did in raw numbers.

I don't think it's going to come in at anything under £2500. Wish I'd have jumped in when the whole thing was coming in at far closer to £2000 (or less).

Going to stick with Intel I think, the i7-7770K appears to be the gamer's choice of CPU.

Can't you just buy one and then trade it in for a Mac in 8 months time?

If I never actually wanted to do anything with my computer, that would be a great idea.

I have returned to Team Red, since Intel have been taking the piss for years.

IPC is still better on Intel, but many-threaded engines are the future (BF1 is already there), so 8 physical cores makes sense IMO. (And Intel's offerings in this space are stupidly expensive.)

Note that this PC has all the LEDs. (RGB case fans (x3), RGB motherboard, twinkly lights graphics card.)

Them fan lights are the shiznit.

There's nothing in that box! You've been had, sir!

I was hoping you'd have had a blu-ray writer so that you could have sent me your MAME roms. Pah.

Just send me a portable 500GB hard drive in the post and I'll post it back to you with the whole lot on. They're £38 off Amazon if you haven't already got one hanging around.

I do rather like them, even though they basically just take a mid-range Corsair case and make it more expensive than it is normally. There are quite a few different effects/colours/patterns you can make them do as well. (Although obviously I'll just find one I like and then leave them on that setting forever, as is the nature of these things. If I were placing bets it'll be 'solid blue' or suchlike, as anything more flashy than that would just be annoying.)



I'm glad I'm not doing the build, it's a rather fussy case to build in apparently (especially behind the motherboard panel). It's not even like it's cheaper to buy the components separately and do it yourself, and it's a long time since I enjoyed fannying about with stuff like this.

Scan are well known for doing good quality builds though, so it should be fine.

Not had an AMD CPU for years are they holding up against Intel?

Need to rebuild my PC as it's a bit messed up OS wise in places, I cleverly disabled USB input on the BIOS and keep forgetting to bring a PS2 keyboard home so I can access BIOS and rebuild it!

AMD have been nowhere for about a decade, and Intel have been back-pedalling to the point of borderline mockery.

However earlier in the year AMD released their Ryzen chips with a new architecture and these represented the first time they've been competitive since Intel released Core Duo.

On raw IPC the Intel chips still punch harder, but you can get an 8-core Ryzen CPU at 3.8GHz for the same money as a 4-core Intel i7 CPU at 4.2GHz.

In single-threaded applications, and games that only utilise 1-4 cores the AMD chips fall a bit short of the faster Intel chips with better IPC, but get them heavily multi-threaded and they're all over Intel like a cheap suit.

Intel have clearly been rattled as they've dropped their prices across the board and allegedly brought their next major hardware refresh forward by three full quarters (which gives you an idea of how lazy they've got over the last ten years).

In the here and now the i7-7700K is the best gaming CPU, but games like Battlefield 1 (which can fully load 8 cores) are showing the way forward, and with both XBone/PS4 using 8-core architecture it's obviously the way engine development is going.

I'm prepared to give up a bit of performance in today's games (and we're only talking 10-15%) for a better long term bet. Plus I don't like the way Intel have been behaving over the last ten years so I'm happy to give my money to AMD instead. (And the Ryzen CPU I've gone for will still represent a big improvement over my old i7-920.)

Wow you did it, you actually did it nice one man.

Finished water cooling my Titan XP.



And I finally got one of these.



That makes four now should fit in well with his brothers.



It came to me stinking of BO. It was awful. After two days of relentless wet sanding with P3000 and then T-cut metallic and then Plastx compound I now have this.



All of the panels are now mirror like. It should look like this when finished.



Decided I wanted something different this time. So I went all out old skool.



With an Athy XP and some DDR memory.



An AGP GPU



Hard drive.



DVD Rom



IDE cables.



Already got a 300w power supply. I am going to install Windows 2000 Pro, Direct X 8 and then hook it up to my TV (the GPU hilariously supports 1080p and above, digitally). Then it will be time for some old skool hairy muff pron, featuring Daytona USA PC, Sega Rally, Virtua Cop, Bass Fishing and a whole load of Midtown Madness 1&2, Motocross Madness 1&2 and lots of Gunman Chronicles etc. I have my entire back catalogue of original PC games going all the way back to 1996.

Of course it will also be full of water.

Pffft I have been allocated a build date of the 12th Sept and dispatch on the 14th Sept, somewhat outside their stated 'aim' of a 5 day turnaround.

It's good that they're busy I suppose, and it's not like I'm desperate in that I have a working PC already, but it's a bit slower than I'd like.

I've requested a callback anyway as there a couple of queries and potential changes I'd like to make, namely getting some 3200 RAM in there instead of 2400 RAM, possibly stepping the graphics card up to a 1080Ti, and dropping the 1TB SSD down to 512GB as I'll have a 512GB Evo to reuse out of my current PC.

The lass I spoke to on the phone had a fantastic Northern accent (they're based in Bolton) and sounded really nice. I imagine her as being chubby with a pretty face and being on the lookout for a middle-aged fucking nerd with a chav sports car and a viagra engorged cock.

That reminds me, I have a question.

I put my old hard drive in my new PC over the weekend and went to delete the old Windows partition. However, it wouldn't let me as it said that I need permission from Trustinstaller to delete them. Fair enough as I wouldn't want to delete these files if it was on my main C drive.

Any ideas how easy it is to turn this off so that I can delete the files? I don't want it disabled permanently, just for these files.

Holy fucking shit dude.

Try booting into safe mode and doing it from there?

Or take ownership of whatever files are blocking you using the method here:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/what-is-tr ... ing-files/

That seems like it will do the job! Thanks. I didn't want to take over the whole PC, just the stuff off my old hard drive so doing it a folder at a time seems like a good idea.

you are a dick!! Is there any need for that?

I mean, as far as redundent things go that information is up there with your shift key, but I don't think he actually said that to her.

Creepiest thing I've read on here in a long time. On HERE!

That's basically what I'm thinking when I read any of Craster's comments.

Craster doesn't have a northern accent though.