End of Year PC Build

This has me a tad concerned.... Will my new 10-900K and Z490 be able to support this new shiny?

www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/event?ocid=prod_sv_cons_win_eng_WatchAnnounceNTP

www.techradar.com/news/windows-11-home-and-pro


Personally I think it's just a big push to get everyone to buy the new tech such as DDR 5, PCIE 5.0 LGA 1700 and the new CPU 7 to 10 nm die fab.


UGH!

That's an interesting point, Vanguard. In that case I'll be sticking with Win 10 as long as I possibly can before making the switch

Besides, I like Windows 10. I liked Windows 7.....I remember Windows XP....I got to the point in my PC building that I learned XP inside out. It was a good system, but it wad riddled with bugs. HOwever, it was the bugs that enabled me to learn it so well. I learned Windows 7 well enough, but I've not learned Windows 10 as well I would have liked-- not like I did with XP.

But taking a ride in the Way Back Machine....I remember DOS 6.22. I used to love working in DOS and there were so many thinsg I could do in the DOS environment. I even remember Window 3.1. My family's first PC was a 486 DX II-66. A 66 Megahertz CPU, a 2 MB ATI Radeon and 2 MB SD RAM and a 50 MB Mechanical HDD and a 5.25 inch Floppy Drive. We bought it in the late summer of 1992 for what was then 3,000 CAD (which was HUGELY expensive back then.....It is equivalent to 5100 now)...But it's crazy to think just how far the tech has come and what the cost is today.


Remeber this?

www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/80486/Intel-A80486DX2-66.html

After the DX II 66 we had the DX II 133....and years later we had the first Gen Pentium chips. I think even ME 1 on PC was designed to run on a P4...And by that time I was running the QX9650 QuadCore 2 Extreme which was one BEAST of a CPU for the time. In its day that was a truly amazing CPU.... In my experience and recent memory, only my current 6850K comes close to the 9650Extreme in terms of power, capability, speed and toughness.

I could throw anything at the QXExtreme and it would eat it like cereal. And paired witht that CPU I had an ASUS branded GTX 570 that eventually crapped out so I upgraded to the 690 and that crapped out in less time.....So then I said nuts to ASUS branded cards and switced to EVGA when I bought my 760 and since then haven't looked back.

ATI from the early 90s when we bought our first family PC, the 486 DX II 66, till 2005 they were a wholly owned, operated and through and through Canadian company. So we wwanted to support a Canadian company. For the time...the performance of the ATI cards was really good, and they were less expensive than Nvidia....But every ATI card we owned always had Driver and firmware problems that plagued them.

The ATI Cards I had that I can remember were the first 2 MB Radeon Card, then the 4 MB Rage Pro II (those were the earliest)....then I last one I can remeber were the 1950 Pro XT (amazing card for the time....But the Drivers and Catalyst COntrol Centre always SUCKED), and then they really went down hill after that. I had the 2600 series from nearly every third party company that ATI partnered with (XFX, Diamond, Saphire, Club, ASUS and the last one I had was VisonTek) and they all sucked goat's balls. NONE of them lasted six months before crapping out. That was when I decided to make the switch to Nvidia cards and spend the extra money on good quality. My first Nvidia based card was from BFG Technologies, it was the 285 OC. What an incredible card for the time! I was so sad when it finally gave up the ghost. Then I had then 470...and it was a good card but it ran really hot, I mean, reallly hot. And it was an ASUS branded card. I also owned the Voodoo 3 3000, which was a really great card; one of the best, at the time, for Open GL. I also owned the Matrox 400, and some other card from a small company called RAINBOW. The ASUS branded Nvidia cards we owned were the 4,5,6 series......And they were all amazing cards, they just ran really really hot and burnt out after two years.

So....Come the 7 series, in 2013-- that is when I'd decided to buy "top shelf" and go for EVGA. I had heard of EVGA ever since I was in highschool and they had wlays ebeen Nvidia's top partner. Always made top quality, amazingly performing cards...trouble was they were super ritzy.

I haven't looked at any other brand since. I had the 760 Dual FTW, a pair of 980 FTW 2s (which I told for 750/pr to help pay for my 1080 FTW 2 w/ ICX2 that i bought in 2017 directly from EVGA in March, just before ANDROMEDA came out because it wasn't available here at the time. After conversion, duty, shipping and taxes, I paid about 11 or 12 hundred CAD for it, when the previous 980s only cost me 800 each bought about eight months apart)....And now I have the 2080 Super FTW 3 Ultra Gaming.

Sooo.....Get this: So there I am putting together my new build with my dad as was the plan all along...right on schedule, when we discover that my current PSU only has one braided 8-pin CPU Power Connector (and my X-99 Phoenix SLI only had one CPU connect because that's all it needed), so over the years I guess we ditched the other cables we never thought we would use or need...... BUT NOW my new motherboard the Z490 Aorus Master and the 10900KF have/need 2 8 in CPU Power Connectors!

FLERKIN EH! SO....As it turns out I had to spend more money that I wasn't counting on to replace the power supply, basically because we ditched one spare cable! And yet my current 850 had the inputs for it-- I just didn't have the cable! I couldn't believe it.....


HOwever, the silver lining is that this did give me the opportunity to upgrade to the 1000 Watt P2 80+ Platiunum PSU....so that will more than ensure I have extra head room for the more powerful 10900K (even though the 10900K draws 25 less watts than my current 6850K) NOt sure why they need 2 8 pin power cables....But in any case, the damage to my wallet is is done.

I got it from Canada COmputers for 399.99 - 31.00 for a Shipping Discount. so it came to roughly 369.00 plus taxes. Total was just over 425 give or take a few dollars and cents.

Was not expecting that at all....But...glad to have made the switch. But when we were installing the CPU pump....I think we may have scraped the heat sink and/or I/O Shield and two of the VRMs when he was putting the CPU pump on...because I noticed a few very minor scratches. A 600 dollar board and it's scratched!


FLLLLEEEEEERRRRRRKKKKKIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!


I'm so PO'd right now!  a 600 dollar board and it's scratched!!!!!


EDIT:   So what looked to be scratches on two of the VRM Chokes and Heat Sinks was just some smudgey gunk from dust or something....I managed to rub them clean with a bit of rubbing alcohol on a mico-fiber cloth.  Good as new.

Thanks for the reply, BMW.....Yeah, I have to wait....and hope that in the meantime nothing else goes wrong with my build. Brand new board and already I've had to clean some scratches of the heat pipe and fix a bent fin on the sink.....Instead of all the fins on the sink being perfectly straight and evenly spaced...there was ine in the middle that you could tell was bent just ever so slightly because it leaned to the left and created a weird spacing look at different angles. So I just ever so slightly, barely touching it....just straightened it out using nothing more than my finger nail. And now it's good as new. Well, if you ignore a tiny scratch in the audio shield that only shows up in certain lighting at certain angles.

But it's going to be in my case....which is dark, so it won't be at all visible.

STORAGE!

I remember, for I am old. They usually weighed a ton and were crappy.
Was that the display in the case? Because they would show what ever you wanted; a gimmick, basically.
I had a few of those, pretty good CPUs. Thunderbirds used to run tad hot though. And by hot I mean that they needed some serious cooling.
I still have one of those. Not Nvidia's finest hour.
Yup, had one of those as well.
Indeed they did. To a point where it was getting ridiculous.

IT is a bloody business. I for one have had blood on my hands more than once. Those cases can be very sharp inside.