4th February 2017, 12:36 PM
Hmm... yeah, it does make sense that for something which uses some new function that the onboard CPU graphics thing has but my 560 doesn't the onboard graphics could be faster, but I'd think that overall the 560 would be better because it's external and surely more powerful... it'd be interesting to compare, but it would be kind of a pain -- you'd need to what, uninstall the NVidia display drivers and install Intel ones or such, each time you want to switch? There's more involved than just switching cables.
Other than that, it's interesting that you also had a Core 2 computer for quite some time. As I said, I think it really shows how much better tech lasts now than it did 20 years ago, which is kind of nice; still having to buy a new computer every two or three years would be expensive! But did you upgrade the OS to 64-bit at some point, though? I mean, I'm pretty sure the new Doom game would not have run on this computer because of that, doesn't it require 64-bit?
As for ha rd drives, I got a 500GB M.2 SSD for the main Windows drive and such. That's a good size and it was cheapish, but it's SATA and not PCI-E, so it uses up one of the SATA ports on this motherboard; PCI-E has a dedicated line for the first M.2 port on this board, but PCI-E M.2 drives cost a lot more than SATA so I went with the cheaper option. Otherwise though I'm still using the same hard drives I had before for the rest of my data, which are regular drives. SSDs cost way too much to switch over to only those. Indeed, when I said that I need another HDD on top of this, I meant another regular drive, 6TB size (or maybe even larger). With a large drive like that and a new power supply (which are cheap, $60-$80 for something that'd be just fine for this machine) I could get my Vista computer back up and running again by moving its drives back there, which I'm sure I will need for older games incompatible with Windows 10. As I said I will look in to virtual machine stuff, but I have to think that'll have issues too, compared to just running an actual older computer...
(And yes, I still like Vista a lot. It's a great OS and is probably my favorite one... though I've never used Windows 7, which is supposed to be Vista but better, so qualify that with that. I like both Windows ME and Vista quite a bit though!)
Other than that, it's interesting that you also had a Core 2 computer for quite some time. As I said, I think it really shows how much better tech lasts now than it did 20 years ago, which is kind of nice; still having to buy a new computer every two or three years would be expensive! But did you upgrade the OS to 64-bit at some point, though? I mean, I'm pretty sure the new Doom game would not have run on this computer because of that, doesn't it require 64-bit?
As for ha rd drives, I got a 500GB M.2 SSD for the main Windows drive and such. That's a good size and it was cheapish, but it's SATA and not PCI-E, so it uses up one of the SATA ports on this motherboard; PCI-E has a dedicated line for the first M.2 port on this board, but PCI-E M.2 drives cost a lot more than SATA so I went with the cheaper option. Otherwise though I'm still using the same hard drives I had before for the rest of my data, which are regular drives. SSDs cost way too much to switch over to only those. Indeed, when I said that I need another HDD on top of this, I meant another regular drive, 6TB size (or maybe even larger). With a large drive like that and a new power supply (which are cheap, $60-$80 for something that'd be just fine for this machine) I could get my Vista computer back up and running again by moving its drives back there, which I'm sure I will need for older games incompatible with Windows 10. As I said I will look in to virtual machine stuff, but I have to think that'll have issues too, compared to just running an actual older computer...
(And yes, I still like Vista a lot. It's a great OS and is probably my favorite one... though I've never used Windows 7, which is supposed to be Vista but better, so qualify that with that. I like both Windows ME and Vista quite a bit though!)
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