McG's Place

[McGrandpa]

I want to take my time doing this build, it could well be my last one.   But who knows, right?  I always enjoyed the tinkering and playing around.   Discovering neat little things as I go.  If this new stuff runs and runs well together, it ought to be a serious humdinger!
I don't think its gonna be a mean a rig as J's Stormbringer.   But it should stomp all over everything I have now!  LOL!
as many as 13 or 14 USB ports, several TYPES of USB. That's gonna be different for me.  Then there are the 8 SATA 6 ports.  ALL of my SSD's and the Pioneer BD rewriter were supposed to be run on SATA 6.  But all my old rig has is SATA 3.  So I think there will be a major difference in reading and writing to the drives with SATA 6.
I hope the CPU fan and heat pipes fit with the cover on the case.   That thing is TALL!

Ryzen 7 3700X, the ASUS TuF Gaming X570 Plus (WiFi), 2 x 16gb DDR4 2666-CL16; 32 gigs HyperX FURY (division of Kingston).   Then, the 6 SATA SSD's, the SATA BD rewriter. 

Seems this motherboard has some sort of video array built in.   I will definitely check that out!

Ah, FUN!  At last!

[thelufias]

Enjoy.....Enjoy......

[McGrandpa]

I will!   This thing has a lot of goodies in it and I want to set up all I can and use it.  Wifi, blutooth 5, gigabit LAN and the darn thing puts on a light show too!

[thelufias]

Take your time....enjoy your fun.....makes it feel better when all is said and done.  No rushing...but a lot of TLC....

[McGrandpa]

Yessir!..

[McGrandpa]

I wonder if the onboard video chip will work without a discrete card?

[McGrandpa]

ALRIGHT!   Here we GO!   

Woohoo!   


I am now the proud and happy (but a bit weirded out) owner of Windows 10 Pro "Full Retail" (64 and 32 bits).   Evidently, J got hit with this need 4 years ago when he built Stormbringer.

The motherboard and cpu makers, AMD and ASUS, insist on using ONLY Windows 10 Pro 64 bits for these two items:

AMD socket AM4 RYZEN 7 3700X

ASUS TUF Gaming X570 Plus (WiFi) (for AMD AM4).

Grrrrr!  I had hoped my beloved Windows 7 Pro x64 would be fine.  Nope, not EVEN close.

So I was in chat with an M$ helper a while ago, and he looked up all the same stuff I'd already found, plus he gave me additional info on WHY.   The W10 driver foundation framework is way different now.
Thats the official reason.    It seems to include all manner of nifty hardware that Win7 will never even see.
Ok ok I get all that, so WHICH or what license or key do I need to have w10 pro 64 bit FULL version, so a croaked mobo or cpu can still  be activated with this one I buy now?    He, in the chat window, opened a new page in Firefox (my M$ acct was opened already) with THE new version in my cart, ready to rumble.
All I had to do was click "buy now".   I did, got a flurry of email and numbers from the chat helper, and so NOW, *NOW*, I own Windows 10 Pro x64.   Yaaay?

[McGrandpa]

I mean with all these years of my bitching, moaning and groaning about Win 10, and here I am voluntarily BUYING it.    :nopanic; :crazy:


 
Might as well laugh it off now,
and get to ENJOYING my new build!

Which is the WHY  to buy Win 10 Pro.

 

Now, to just do a final check and backups to things, then shut ol George XXXVIII'th down, one final time, and do open case surgery on the poor old man.   

Wish me the best y'all!   It starts at dark!

[Jherrith]

For all the bitching folks do about Win 10 64 bit Pro, so far it has not caused me any real issue.

[McGrandpa]

Right, and believe me, I have paid rapt attention to the LACK of complaints from your corner, J!

If you're ok with it on Stormbringer, then I am sure to enjoy using my new system with W10 Pro 64 on it too.   Thing is, I HAVE to use it, as AMD and ASUS insist on it, and only it.   Therefore, I now have it.

What would be needed to set up a naming thread for the newest PC in my world?