Post by awesome on Jul 27, 2022 20:52:02 GMT -5
Well, I'm back.
I had some major technical issues last week. On Monday I began having issues with programs locking up randomly on my computer. On Tuesday my sound driver started crashing regularly. During this period, the PC stopped rebooting all the way. It would shut down to a low-power state, but never turn completely off, and thus not finish the reboot. On Wednesday I could no longer watch videos on the computer for whatever reason. I also was having issues launching programs, including my browser (Opera).
During all of this, I was carefully scanning for software problems and never found any. I hadn't installed anything suspicious, as I'm very careful about that. No viruses here since 2005. I had reached an unofficial diagnoses of a dying motherboard. I've never had one die like this before though, they almost always go all at once.
I ordered new parts and they showed up yesterday. I went from a first-generation i7 860 to a 12th generation i5 12400F, and let me tell you... phenomenal difference. I knew my computer was slow, but I had no idea how slow it was until now. Pretty big difference between 2010 hardware and 2022 hardware.
I had built my PC for my aunt a year before she died, and she let me have it right before she went. I built it on a budget - it originally had an i3 530, which I overclocked the snot out of until I got to the point where I could no longer run multi-threaded programs because it was too outdated (only 2 cores anyway). I then bought a used Xeon 3440 that I had a 950mhz overclock on and ran that for a few more years until my dad's high-end computer that I had also built in 2009 had a motherboard failure. It had the 1st gen i7 in it. Plopped it in my computer and I've been using that until now.
Long story short, I hadn't built MYSELF a computer since 2007. That computer is still running - the kids use it.
In other news, if anyone is still running a socket 1156 motherboard and would like an upgraded processor, I have a working i3, a working Xeon, and a most-likely still working i7 if you want them. I have no more 1156 motherboards and it's very unlikely I will ever come across another one at this point. If you're worried about the overclocks, don't be... I have very good cooling and never run my stuff hot.
I had some major technical issues last week. On Monday I began having issues with programs locking up randomly on my computer. On Tuesday my sound driver started crashing regularly. During this period, the PC stopped rebooting all the way. It would shut down to a low-power state, but never turn completely off, and thus not finish the reboot. On Wednesday I could no longer watch videos on the computer for whatever reason. I also was having issues launching programs, including my browser (Opera).
During all of this, I was carefully scanning for software problems and never found any. I hadn't installed anything suspicious, as I'm very careful about that. No viruses here since 2005. I had reached an unofficial diagnoses of a dying motherboard. I've never had one die like this before though, they almost always go all at once.
I ordered new parts and they showed up yesterday. I went from a first-generation i7 860 to a 12th generation i5 12400F, and let me tell you... phenomenal difference. I knew my computer was slow, but I had no idea how slow it was until now. Pretty big difference between 2010 hardware and 2022 hardware.
I had built my PC for my aunt a year before she died, and she let me have it right before she went. I built it on a budget - it originally had an i3 530, which I overclocked the snot out of until I got to the point where I could no longer run multi-threaded programs because it was too outdated (only 2 cores anyway). I then bought a used Xeon 3440 that I had a 950mhz overclock on and ran that for a few more years until my dad's high-end computer that I had also built in 2009 had a motherboard failure. It had the 1st gen i7 in it. Plopped it in my computer and I've been using that until now.
Long story short, I hadn't built MYSELF a computer since 2007. That computer is still running - the kids use it.
In other news, if anyone is still running a socket 1156 motherboard and would like an upgraded processor, I have a working i3, a working Xeon, and a most-likely still working i7 if you want them. I have no more 1156 motherboards and it's very unlikely I will ever come across another one at this point. If you're worried about the overclocks, don't be... I have very good cooling and never run my stuff hot.