Vista to 7 or 10

You'll be condemned to hell.




Still you have a half decent comp to play with.

 

That's showing out of stock for Win 10, did you buy them all.

 

Replacing my 1155 & 1156 systems here in a few weeks, had them six years or so, time for an over due upgrade.

 

Out of stock? ha. That means it won't run windows 10.

Mr. HandyAndy - Really

 

Socket 775 doesn't meet W10 specs I believe, but will run, some of the required drivers for the motherboard arn't available.

 

Also have to think why the seller has other computers where windows 10 is in stock? Weird.

Mr. HandyAndy - Really

 

I have one question about computer. Which is cheaper building own pc or buying built in computer?

 

Have always built my own pc's,I like being able to choose my components, years ago you could save building your own, today I'm not so sure.

 

Same here. Always build my own.

 

Fine. Bet you will coe crying on here when it packs in!

 

Boot speed up would be significantly faster if you shoved the OS, be it 7 or 10 on an SSD drive

The right hardware will be best for determining boot speed. 7 & 10 boot up is about the same. Also depends how many start up programs you run.

 

Much faster - SSD's are the way to go!

It'll also still be fast two years down the line when there's 20 odd things running on start up...
You not only get the speed now, but it remains for the lifetime of the SSD. The days of reading a platter are on the way out for boot drives.

 

As Kool has already mention, put OS on a SSD & boot up is quick, Ferrari quick, I now boot up in around 20 seconds now, compared to minutes before.

A lot of SSD's come with a migration utility to move OS from HDD to SSD.

 

One other major advantage with a SSD is NO fragmentation that you get with a hard drive, so you don't need to defrag.

 

To answer (or at least give my opinion) one some of the questions above:
- I think 10 is faster to boot and in operation, than 7. I was sceptical about upgrading from 7 to 10 but I have to say 10 is pretty good.
- An SSD for the OS is definitely going to improve performance, but be aware of SSD failures and ensure any important data is backed up (I keep backup of all data using SyncToy plus image the drives onto a NAS).
- Building your own PC is not cheap but then you'd only do it if you want a custom/performance build. If all you want is a standard PC for browsing and the like, off the shelf will be cheaper.

 

If you stick with the best SSD's you have a better chance of having a long living hard drive. But, backing up should be 2nd nature. I have seen it countless times where people think the computer is indestructible only to lose all their data in one fell swoop!

I have certainly built cheaper PC's than one could buy. New for new that is. Nothing 2nd hand!

 

I don't back up....Because Veeam does it automatically to my NAS. Incrementally weekly and full monthly.
Then the NAS backs up to another NAS

I'm not losing any data