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  • #46
    Originally posted by fruity View Post
    Nice machine, Yelta. If you can stretch the budget, grab an SSD too and you'll substantially improve the general feel of it! ;-)
    Thanks Fruity, would you mind PMing me with a bit more info on the SSD.

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    • #47
      New box, willingness to tackle a new view of how to do things... you should be fine. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts after (say) 6 months of use. Make sure to note how many GB's of 'updates' you get as well please. I just recently rebuilt a Win7 box and promptly got about 1.5GB of updates - can you spell 'New OS'?

      I started with Olivetti M24's in a work environment but my real job was running Prime Information across the State and fixing DB's to give out useful information to queries. (and teaching all the users how to do them ) I loved DOS for the fun it was, and my bestest Win was WFWG 3.11 - mainly because I could make it sing with tweaking.

      Everyone seems to have forgotten Win NT4 - replacing the slow old dog that was 3.51 it foreshadowed WinXP in a stable and secure environment. (as an aside, we had a section in the Dept requiring secure workstations - I talked the ITD Manager into getting NT4 for them and came in on Monday to find most of the IT section looking to hang me off the balcony - the Manager had decided if NT4 was good enough for THAT section, the entire Dept should have it. We promptly had over 1000 PC's to rebuild or replace - NOT HAPPY JAN!)

      My personal opinion of Win8 is MS once more dumped on its users in favour of corporate strategy to take on Android. Vista and Office 2007 were disasters for MS in spite of their cooking the figures to make it all look better. Win7 and Office 2010 rescued them but, learn from their mistakes? Not on your life. I doubt Win8 will do much to improve MS standing in the consumer market which seems hell-bent on smaller devices runing Android, and from a business PoV, as mentioned above, the learning curve will have many IT budgets screaming NO to upgrading.

      We looked at the cost for upgrading to Office 2007 when it came out (we'd already convinced Management to scrap any plans our vendors had to give us Vista) and the potential drop in productivity as well as the stress on many of our staff (Aged Care industry, lots of old-timers and many facility staff who had skills at the level of, push this button, then that one) left us with )ff2K3 until we showed 2010 to be much more friendly.

      I think Win8 is doomed to be an also-ran. MS should have brought out a corporate upgrade to Win7 (or even just not bothered, it is running fine almost everywhere) and a consumer level interface for tablets etc. Trying to change the interface for desktops is an expensive nightmare for their biggest customers.

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      • #48
        Originally posted by Yelta View Post
        Intel i7 4770 processor, 16GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM and 1TB WD Black HDD with 8.1 installed.
        An SSD will certainly help. Do you know what motherboard you will be getting with this build? 16gb is quite a lot. Though without knowing what you're going to be doing with it, I would suggest 8gb. Could save a few dollars on that to put towards an SSD, which will be of far more benefit than the extra 8gb ram.

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        • #49
          Originally posted by foana View Post
          An SSD will certainly help. Do you know what motherboard you will be getting with this build? 16gb is quite a lot. Though without knowing what you're going to be doing with it, I would suggest 8gb. Could save a few dollars on that to put towards an SSD, which will be of far more benefit than the extra 8gb ram.
          As I said have placed the order, will stick with the WD HDD, not a money thing, just a personal decision.

          Full size ATX Motherboard (Socket 1150), I can use the extra RAM.

          As I said, I have the information I need so don't need to discuss further, thanks again to all who took the time to reply.

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