Once More With Feeling

[billroper]

So the new computer is now back in its place in the basement, Windows 7 is installed, and the 69 updates from Windows Update are busy installing themselves. Eventually, I will regain control of the whole process and can start installing useful things like Cubase.

But, for now, it's just nice to know that I didn't find some new way to completely botch the assembly. :)

The Windows performance index reports that the slowest thing in the machine is the old graphics card, followed closely by the new disk drives. Neither of these is a surprise, since the graphics card is a few years old now, while the hard drives are SATA 3.0 on a motherboard that's capable of supporting SATA 6.0.

The CPU, on the other hand, is a zippy fast quad core 3.3 GHz.

I think I'll live with that.

Comments

[kevinnickerson.livejournal.com]

I hope you got a W7 that had SP1 slipstreamed in. It's been a dicey computer killer. We lost three here.

question

[sffilk.livejournal.com]

How can you tell that your hard drives are SATA 3.0 and that your motherboard can take SATA 6.0 drives?

Also, is Windows 7 any good?

Re: question

[billroper]

Well, there are four ports on the motherboard that are rated for a SATA 6.0 drive, according to the documentation. But the drives I bought are older cheaper drives that are only SATA 3.0 versions.

Simply put, I read the fine manual. :)

As far as Windows 7 goes, it seems ok. I've been running it on a laptop for a while. The main annoyance is that the old Start menu format has been killed, so I have to get used to the new glitzy version as opposed to the one that did what I wanted it to.