britfrog 180 Posted January 17, 2014 Report Share Posted January 17, 2014 I generally perform a major change every 3 years and this spring makes 3 years since I last changed the motherboard . and as that in most cases means having (in the past) to re-install windows I might as well go the whole hog and build a new p.c keeping my exisiting setup to power another view through widescreen. So far I have identified the following: Asus Rampage IV Black Edition Motherboard (Intel X79, DDR3, S-ATA 600, E-ATX, 4x PCI...Intel Core i7 (4960X) 3.6GHz Extreme Edition Processor 15MB L3 Cache 130W LGA2011 (Boxed) Asus Nvidia GeForce GTX 760x2 Mars Graphics Card (4GB, GDDR5, PCI Express 3.0) Corsair CMY16GX3M2A2133C11 Vengeance Pro Series 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 2133Mhz CL11 XMP Performance Desktop Memory... 3 x WESTERN DIGITAL WD1000DHTZ VelociRaptor 1TB (10000rpm) SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache 2.5 inch Hard Drive - (in a 3.5... i wont be fitting an SSD as they are too flakey and unreliable according to Tom's hardware and besides i can buy 3 superfast relaible drives for less than 1 500gb ssd which may prove to be reliable. has anyone a better suggestion from experience? Link to post Share on other sites
jaydor 345 Posted January 17, 2014 Report Share Posted January 17, 2014 Sounds a good build to me and I am always building. I don't know where you are getting the gear, but I always use SCAN; http://www.scan.co.uk/ Just a bit of advice, after you install windows fresh, do one windows update before you install anything keep updating until there is no more to update and then switch windows update off forever. Enjoy the building.. Link to post Share on other sites
Kasper 14 Posted January 17, 2014 Report Share Posted January 17, 2014 Nice system and I agree on not using SSD. It is the most hyped hardware component of the recent past. SSD is useful when you have lots of i/o operations i.e. not flight simulator which reads everything into memory. SSD will load a little faster that's all, it will not improve performance while running the simulator. Unless the PC is not connected to the internet I would not switch off windows update. I am not a big fan of MS since I do most of my serious work on Linux but leaving vulnerabilities unpatched is a little silly in my book. Link to post Share on other sites
britfrog 180 Posted January 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2014 thank you both for your thoughts. the ms upgrades is a difficult one, this year I decided not to update as i only use that drive for fsx although I do from time to time go online, i am protected by norton , which has worked perfectly for over 10 years. however when i looked the other day there were over 90 updates available so i thought i might as well perform an update for the heck of it, did it work? that will be NO then!! after waiting 2 hours with the HD grinding away it said it could not install the updates, I then tried to install 1 update , still no go, so I have left it as it was, it works well, so why bother with an update? and after all if someone did get access what would they get???? FSX no credit cards no financial info, so hey if they get a kick out of getting in my p.c. i pity their sex life Link to post Share on other sites
Kasper 14 Posted January 17, 2014 Report Share Posted January 17, 2014 It's not as much what they can gain from your PC - although, mail, electronic banking and such tend to be interesting - it is what they can do with your system once you are pawned. An MS update not working without an apparent reason is in itself a cause to take a good look at your system - what else is not working as it should anymore - and what is working what should not.. First thing to do when you compromise a system is disable updates - that could spoil your access.. So, as long as you don't care that your PC can be in a botnet doing God knows what by all means don't patch. Just my friendly advice as certified white hat. Link to post Share on other sites
britfrog 180 Posted January 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2014 Thanks Again , hadnt thought about botnets, however I suppose they are not such a big problem as the p.c is only turned on when I am flying , and then it is turned off, but I appreciate your concerns Link to post Share on other sites
Gunner 69 Posted January 18, 2014 Report Share Posted January 18, 2014 If you decide to use the updates, it is better to do them regularly. If it happens (like in your case) to have a large amount to be installed, it is most likely that you got errors if attempt to install them all at once. If its win7 and after install you got a large list of available updates, check them in a 6-7 batch at time, not all 90+. I set it to notify me , but let me choose which i install. This helps avoiding the new driver installs. I install new drivers only when i really need them. If it works, don't fix it . Nice setup , btw . Link to post Share on other sites
phil white 274 Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 That processor will probably be the most beneficial upgrade you could make. Link to post Share on other sites
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