On 2019-08-25 08:12, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
As I said in previous post I gave my new build z390, i7 8700 build to my
son in exchange for his old i7 950 Gigabyte x58 system.
Well I played around with the old box for a week or so then found it was
not to my liking, That board has been rather troublesome for the last 9
years, So I decided that's enough, Out you go.
Not wanting to spend another $1000+ dollars I did a fair amount of
research and decided to do something I have never done before.

Â*Try an AMD CPU, so I ordered An AMD Ryzen 5 3400G CPU With onboard
Vega 11 graphics andÂ* Wraith Spire cooler, an Asus B450 F motherboard
and 16 GB of CorsairÂ* 1600 MHZ memory All for abut $450.
Put it all together in the same Coolermaster CM 690 II case and power
supply.

I just got done building a ryzen 6 core system (3.5Ghz) . Except I put
FREEBSD on it (ZFS rocks).

I have to say, though, that a non-windows OS would work REALLY well on
that older system, too. A lot of people (like me) use older systems as
an extra Linux (or FreeBSD) box, rather than trying to struggle with a
900lb monolith on its back (aka Win-10-nic).

and if I need to run windows applications, there's always virtualbox...

[Ryzen does a lot better at virtualbox virtualization, I've noticed, as
compared to Intel core quad from 10 years ago, so this becomes a much
more practical alternative, even if you have to run Win-10-nic, you do
it in a VM not as the host OS]