What, are they walking it to you? Have they heard of the wheel yet? Geez, I could have farted while standing on a skateboard and beat them to your house! By the time it comes, it will be time for the next gen on them to be out!

Depending if all goes well I might do an LP of Batman Arkham Asylum on the PS4. I love this game series and thanks to a certain YouTuber Batman has become a favorite of mine.

Project Update:

Win10 is updating itself on my new PC!!! With my slow DSL contection its gonna take quite a while. Doubt I'll do much more today than insure the OS boots properly.

PC parts appeared outside my door sooner than expected. As it was only a few min before lunch, I went ahead and ate before to assembly. Took longer than expected, basically the entire time between lunch and supper, with minor tinkering and clean up following the meal. Had an unexpectedly long delay early on. Silly me didn't bother to check screwdrivers beforehand. I seem to have misplaced or lost quite a few over the years, including the one or two magnetic screwdrivers I once possessed. I tried to make do without a magnetic, but admitted defeat after dropping too many screws. Next mistake...I did not search the web for local magnetic screwdrivers before leaving the house, assuming them to be common and thus available everywhere. First stop, a nearby auto parts & repair shop, who carry a decent tool selection. No magnetics expect as part of one huge super expensive too set. Drove to Home Depot. No magnetics, or so I was told. They did, however, carry a cheap device that magnetizes and demagnetizes ordinary screwdrivers. Bought it. Works like a charms.

I'll say no more for now other than that I'm following advice from a fellow on YouTube who advocates installing Windows using a CPU's built-in graphics unit, and installing my GTX 1070 only after Windows is up and running. I decided to do so to cut down on weight while lugging the PC between kitchen and computer room.

Think I did a better cable management this build. Not perfect by any means, but not an embarrassment either.

ADDENDUM:
Yeesh, this is taking forever! 19% Windows Updates completion. Gonna call it quits and let MS do its thing overnight. Hopefully it'll be ready first thing tomorrow morning! I swear the old e8500 didn't take all that long to update, same install disk, same Creators Update.

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First post here type on the new computer. (Finally got Firefox installed with appropriate add-ons.) Downloading later Nvidia Win10 graphics drivers. Will install GTX1070 either later this morning or early afternoon.

Earlier I created three new partitions on my Samsung M2.nvme drive, one for Productivity & Utilities, one specifically for TES Oblivion, one for Games & Benchmarks. I'll almost certainly need another SSD at some point down the road, along with an HDD I'll likely buy next month.

Next up, my daily exercise-walk, before it gets too hot.

I need to get rid of Cortana, but can't find the site I used for instructions. Not giving up the search.

Khajiit thought you bought an HDD already. Didn't you?

Aw---I like using Cortana, she's come in handy with helping me with spelling .

Nope. There is/was one on the list of proposed components I linked some time ago, along with a conventional SSD. I still plan to get those, though the SSD might give way to another M.2 nvme SSD.

This new rig boots into Windows super duper faster. Almost a shame that fast initial boot times have never been all that important to me. I certainly don't mind them. Heh.

One thing I DON'T like is that the Creative Labs control panel gives me a choice between 2/2.1 channel and 5.1 channel sound. I use four speakers and am perfectly happy with the arrangement. Don't need more the four well placed speakers (except maybe a high quality subwoofer) for gaming in my opinion. I have an old long unused audio receiver that will give me five channels of amplification, and some extra speakers collecting dust that might serve as a center channel. But I'd as soon not have to mess with all that. Now, if my hearing was better...

Almost forgot to mention that the GTX1070 is installed. Had a brief scare when the monitor blacked out on first boot up with the card in place, and remained black. Thankfully hitting the reset button set things to rights. BIOS prolly needed to do some self adjustments to accommodate the card.

Haven't done much this afternoon. Got too sleepy after lunch so went to bed. Still very groggy, but hope to install a number of productivity programs. (LibreOffice, Paint.NET, MS Money and so on.)

Congrats on the new rig! I used to have a set of Cambridge Soundworks surround sound speakers. So I feel your pain with the lack of support for 4 speaker systems. That always drove me nuts. I started using a pair of turtle beach headphones a few years ago, so I finally retired the Cambridge. Now I just have a pair of cheap speakers on my desk for those rare times I don't use the headphones.

I won't give up easily. Headphones and I don't mix well. Even when my hearing was significantly better I couldn't hear music nearly as well over headphones as I could from a set of decent quality, well placed speakers. And nowadays I find that, since acquiring TMJ syndrome, wearing headphone any great length of time causes right ear pain, regardless of volume.

Drove to Best Buy after supper and bought another copy of WIn10, for its Product Key. The new rig's OS is now activated. (I price matched a qualified online competitor, so spent no extra buying locally other than a bit of gas money.

MS Money Sunset is up and running...thank goodness! I've relied on it to keep my budget organized and under control for around 25yr now! (I used Quicken a for few years prior to that.) Money hasn't been sold in ages. Glad MS keeps Sunset Edition around as a free download.

Done and done!


Yes indeed! Today I finally, at long last, got rid of that pesky rock that was so in the way at the point in the wood where we turn the ATV and tractor around in order to drive back. I don't know how many hours I pulled today but man, it's a bunch foe shoe! Not because that particular rock was difficult, but because of all the other ones on the way to it.

I also fixed another part closer to home and now I'm on the part of the tractor road that goes past my little shooting range which is even closer to home. And I'm still only at the half-way mark on the fuel gauge!

Projects:

1) Walked circa 0700.

2) Installed Minecraft on the new PC...first game added there. (Also installed Java 64-bit since Minecraft needs it.) Tested Minecraft...my save file loads....hurrah. Didn't bother to turn off V sync so FPS never rose above 60. Nor did it hint at dropping below 60, even when I cranked up the Distant View setting several notches. Gotta try shaders when next I launch the game.

3) Mowed before lunch. Meant to mow yesterday evening, but drove into town to buy Win10 instead. First mow of the year to take a lot out of me. Was weak and exhausted at the end. Dread mowing later on when it'll be significantly hotter. Heart reading immediately afterward: Blood Pressure 97/60. Pulse 87.

4) To cool down from the mow I had a bowl of chili with added hot-sauce for lunch.

Observation: The new computer build is significantly quieter than my i7 930 rig. Admittedly, the case my i7 930 is housed in is designed for high air flow, with lots and lots of fans.

Observation: So far the new rig has run flawlessly thus far, a few short-lived quirks early on aside . No reason why it shouldn't, but one never knows until its fully assembled and all essential software installed. Oh yeah, as is my practice I replaced Windows Defender with Avast Free. Also added Malewarebytes free.

Assembling a cabinet Mrs. Treydog ordered. Poor UPS fellow who had to carry it to the porch....

Crawling around and putting these things together isn't as easy as it used to be when my knees were 50 years younger...

Tell me about it! My knees and lower back have been bothering me more than usual since beginning to assemble the new computer. Been a long time since my knees hurt as much as they did during this morning's exercise-walk. They're still a bit sore.

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Sometime either later morning or early afternoon the new PC quit going into sleep mode. Tinkered with it off and on all afternoon and on into evening without solving the issue. Was being to doubt a discoverable solution exists when I noticed that my current primary PC (the i7 930) wasn't going into sleep mode either. I've not changed any of its settings in some time. It then dawned on me that sometime this morning I added the new PC to the i7 930's "homegroup". I removed the new PC from the homegroup, and notice that it has now gone to sleep. Hope it fixes the i7 930 too.

My i7 930 PC has a blinking blue LED to indicate it's in sleep mode. The new PC simply goes dead, as if it had been turned off. I betcha there'll be times I forget its sleeping and hit the power button. Many times. Then again, once the new rig is fully functional and becomes my primary rig, it'll be hooked up to my Samsung monitor, which has its own blinking light when asleep. (The Viewsonic my new PC is now attached to has a faint orange dot to indicate sleep mod. It is easily overlooked.)

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Jun 11 2017, 02:26 AM

Hey Decrepit, what route did you go with cooling?

Unlike my i7 930 build, this time I went traditional with an air cooler. As long as I tend to keep a PC in service I didn't want the worry of a self-contained Liquid Cooler eventually loosing fluid through leakage or evaporation. What I got is a Noctua NH-D15S, their top-end air cooler. Big and not sexy looking (those fan colors) but super quiet, great build quality and customer service. Here's a brief evaluation video, which dings the unit only for its price, which the reviewer gets wrong by $20. Here's a video of a fellow replacing his NH-D15 with a NH-D15S which shows the improvements Noctua implemented with the "S" model when installed in a case with VERY tight tolerances.

As to the case itself, it came with one 200mm fan at front and one 140mm at rear, with arrangements for fans at top and bottom. I bought and installed a 140mm Fractal Design Silent Series R2 fan at case top above the Noctua. Doesn't pump a lot of air (compared to some other case fans) but as the name suggests is very quiet. The white-blades-with-black-surround matches existing case fans, and it's relatively cheap. It's only three-pin, but so are those other fans. (The Noctua is four-pin PWN.)

Only other cooling is two fans on the MSI GTX 1070.

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I hope you are happy with your new puter, mr D!


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Project Tractor Road

Gonna dig me some holes!
This part was the most difficult one
Finally at the end of the road
It's down to you and me, you rock-hard freak!
YES!
As I'm all done now, my little shooting range got a new target..

Projects today:

1) Walked circa 0700. Might be my last walk until next weekend, if weather predictions prove true. (Storm/rain changes every day starting tomorrow.

2) Touched base with neighbor about when he will fix my minor (?) roof leak. Got permission to had limbs to his burn pile. (We also gabbed a while about politics. He and I are on opposite sides of the US political spectrum, but agree that just about everyone currently in office, regardless of party, are a disaster and need to go, pronto.)

3) Trimmed/pruned weed bush next to front porch as close to ground as possible. Trimmed or removed lower branches from large weed tree in back yard. Removed or trimmed branches/trunks from small weed trees from the wood fence that separate an apartment complex from my yard. Old management kept the fence in good repair and weed-tree free. (The fence was installed by the complex, not me.) When complex ownership changed that stopped. Besides trees along the fence, the fence itself is is sad shape. I've complained several times. It does no good. Don't want to complain too much for fear they they will simply remove the fence, as happened with my next-door neighbor. Am afraid I'll have to start complaining again, as one section of fence has all but fallen over. Worse (?), that section is where the local cable provider keeps what should be one of its cable junction boxes, except they are too cheap to buy and install an actual box, so that lots of wires and connectors are exposed where it's easy to run over 'em with a mower, as happened some years ago. (Grass had grown high enough between mowings that I didn't notice a cable running along the ground.)

4) Carried limbs to neighbor's burn pile. Heart reading immediately afterward: Blood Pressure 108/68, Pulse 94. Was very physically exhausted by this time.

5) Showered. Weigh-in immediately afterward: 140/1 lbs.

6) Made my weekly grocery run. I would normally do so tomorrow, but Monday is predicted to be stormy I might have waited until Tuesday, when I have a medical appointment, but I'll run out of certain food items before then.

7) Put away groceries and ate a lite lunch.

8) Had nasty scare when I noticed an until now unread online med statement saying I owe $216 for an appointment my PCM billed incorrectly back in Mar 2016! I thought that had been taken care of in my favor months ago. Was sweating bullets unlit I noticed that the statement is dated 7/20/2016. Logged back on that provider's site and read a current statement, which shows I owe nothing. Whew.

Not sure what, if anything, I'll do with my in-progress computer build today. Still feeling very run down from all that pruning pre-lunch pruning.

Yeah Khajiit was a bit iffy on the liquid cooling when he was building his PC. Went with a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo air cooler. Also have 2 Cooler Master red LED 200mm case fans and a couple of 120mm ones.

Not bad That's something of a "go to" cooler for those don't want to (or can't) invest a lot of money in PC CPU cooling. Does its job well. About the only negative I've heard, second-hand, is that it can be a bit cumbersome to install. If and when the liquid cooler in my i7 930 rig goes belly-up a 212 Evo is likely to replace it.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Jun 12 2017, 11:14 AM