On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 01:02:24PM -0400, Peter King via talk wrote:
My main computer is in the shop (it won't pass a POST) and it looks like the motherboard may be the culprit. The last computers I had built were put together very well but the places where they were done no longer exist.
Suggestions/recommendations for places that build computers to custom specs with high build quality? And, for that matter, what a future-proof solid set of specs looks like these days? (This is to replace a 12-core i7 box with 32GB RAM and some 10TB of storage.) Thanks!
So by 12 core do you actually mean 12 tread (ie 6 core with hyperthreading) I would think? I just replaced the MB, cpu and ram in my father's machine because it was only successfully starting up about 10% of the time which was getting quite annoying, and it was about 6 or 7 years old. It went from a core i7 (4 core 8 thread) with 32GB ram and a pair of 120GB SSDs in RAID1 to a Ryzen 5 3600 (6 core 12 thread) with 32GB ram and a 1TB NVME M.2 drive. Of course for current AMD chips that's not a high end CPU and they have plenty of much more powerful chips if there is actually a need for that. I put in an Asus Prime X570-Pro motherboard, The Ryzen 5 3600 CPU, Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 2666Mhz, and a Corsair Force MP600 1TB NVMe drive. Decent upgrade and not crazy expensive. Ryzen 7 chips with 8 core/16 thread or ryzen 9 with 12 core/24 thread are not that much more expensive for those with needs for that many CPUs. The case, power supply, bluray drive and video card didn't need to be changed. -- Len Sorensen