Ah yes..... the grinning Jeff Goldblum from Jurassic Park. That's what I feel like right now, or more accurately, I feel like the Sam Neill character watching the park's systems come apart around him! Let me start from the beginning..... sort of......
It's finished! Last night, the final upgrade piece for the "new" Blackbird went into place. The AMD Radeon HD 7850 graphics card. It replaced the last major component in my desktop workstation left over from the old Core 2 Quad Blackbird, the Radeon HD 7750.
The end of last week saw the 240Gb Sandisk boot drive replaced by a new Crucial 512Gb MX100. At the same time, the secondary drive changed over from the old 1Tb Hitachi DeskStar to 2, 1.5Tb Hitachi DeskStars, plus the old drive stayed in the machine as well. So the mechanical storage is at 4Tb on top of the 512Gb of SSD boot drive. Do we live in a wonderful time or what!?!
Last night, the final piece was installed. I replaced the Radeon HD 7750 with the 7850. The Windows experience index jumped from 6.9 to 7.5 with the "S" Spec i5 3450 processor being the item that kept it from maxing out at 7.9 across the board! The power/heat friendly 7750 moved over to my son's new gaming console sized machine.
So, what's all this about chaos? So far; this post sounds completely normal, right? Yeah..... that was the last thing to do before I start dismantling the office. The flooring people are coming tomorrow and I'm about to take every last bit of electronics OUT of the office....including everything in the "closet of doom"!
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