Let me emphasize -- I have no hardware failures or problems. Windows 10 Pro is serving my needs perfectly. I am attempting to scale back the number of working computers in my home which require maintenance and configuration as a routine. But I am making progress with my hardware hoarding and OCD computer "interest". I replaced my HTPC AND my home file server with a single "Media PC and synching backup server". This latest "build" can be turned off for periods of time, unless I want to watch a recorded movie from my collection, or I feel a need to synch files.
Thus, I have removed a net number of one (1) computer in the house. Last year, I got rid of two of them. This is especially important, because we've gone from three users to one user in the last six years. Moms stopped using her system in 2017, and my brother died in January 2022. So I'm the only "user" left in the house. Moms is still very much alive, but she consumes a hefty amount of my time as her caregiver. So I'm not so keen anymore about building a new computer. I give time to such projects. I research the parts options, plan the building activity and give my creations a couple months in testing before I make them fully operational on a day-to-day basis.
I still figure I need to keep current without being a total lemming and slave to new hardware releases and newer versions of the OS and software.
So here it is. I'm tentatively planning to build around a high-end ASUS Z790 motherboard, probably for either an i7-12700 or i7-13700 processor. I really didn't want to do this: I'm getting old, and -- as I said -- other things are consuming my time. I have a close friend who is a "mainstreamer", and whose computer is malfunctioning and giving him trouble. I had been offering advice, but I certainly know he does not want to build a system. We were both looking at high-end Dell XPS, Precision or Optiplex systems, and my friend took the plunge to spend about $1,700 on his new high-end system. I'm not jealous or anything: I could easily order up a Dell or maybe an Acer with a $2,200 price-tag.
This would have been the first OEM I will have purchased since 1994. But after assessing my friend's acquisition or what it might mean to me, I came up with a ball-park estimate for a high-end ASUS motherboard, the i7-13700K, and 64 GB of DDR5-5600 RAM. Add in a 1TB HK Hynix P41 NVME for ~ $100 and the CPU heatpipe cooler, and I'm looking at an outlay of about $1,400. I have all the other parts I would need. I think I will have more expansion and modification options using my own case and other parts. But right now, I don't want to deal with the Win 11 OS and software decisions I may need to make with it.
Win 11 was released around October, 2021, and the Z790 chipset arrived the next year. As I need to eventually face the learning curve with Win 11, I've tentatively decided to build the new system with an initial installation of Windows 10 Pro. I have obtained a retail-box-in-shrink-wrap "new" for about $65. Nor does the money really matter in that regard, either. I can upgrade to Win 11 at some future time, but I need to make my next system-build "perfect" and "reliable", and i don't want to face the other issues I mentioned until later.
Is there any reason -- any at all -- that a Win 10 Pro installation will not work as well on a Z790 system?
Thus, I have removed a net number of one (1) computer in the house. Last year, I got rid of two of them. This is especially important, because we've gone from three users to one user in the last six years. Moms stopped using her system in 2017, and my brother died in January 2022. So I'm the only "user" left in the house. Moms is still very much alive, but she consumes a hefty amount of my time as her caregiver. So I'm not so keen anymore about building a new computer. I give time to such projects. I research the parts options, plan the building activity and give my creations a couple months in testing before I make them fully operational on a day-to-day basis.
I still figure I need to keep current without being a total lemming and slave to new hardware releases and newer versions of the OS and software.
So here it is. I'm tentatively planning to build around a high-end ASUS Z790 motherboard, probably for either an i7-12700 or i7-13700 processor. I really didn't want to do this: I'm getting old, and -- as I said -- other things are consuming my time. I have a close friend who is a "mainstreamer", and whose computer is malfunctioning and giving him trouble. I had been offering advice, but I certainly know he does not want to build a system. We were both looking at high-end Dell XPS, Precision or Optiplex systems, and my friend took the plunge to spend about $1,700 on his new high-end system. I'm not jealous or anything: I could easily order up a Dell or maybe an Acer with a $2,200 price-tag.
This would have been the first OEM I will have purchased since 1994. But after assessing my friend's acquisition or what it might mean to me, I came up with a ball-park estimate for a high-end ASUS motherboard, the i7-13700K, and 64 GB of DDR5-5600 RAM. Add in a 1TB HK Hynix P41 NVME for ~ $100 and the CPU heatpipe cooler, and I'm looking at an outlay of about $1,400. I have all the other parts I would need. I think I will have more expansion and modification options using my own case and other parts. But right now, I don't want to deal with the Win 11 OS and software decisions I may need to make with it.
Win 11 was released around October, 2021, and the Z790 chipset arrived the next year. As I need to eventually face the learning curve with Win 11, I've tentatively decided to build the new system with an initial installation of Windows 10 Pro. I have obtained a retail-box-in-shrink-wrap "new" for about $65. Nor does the money really matter in that regard, either. I can upgrade to Win 11 at some future time, but I need to make my next system-build "perfect" and "reliable", and i don't want to face the other issues I mentioned until later.
Is there any reason -- any at all -- that a Win 10 Pro installation will not work as well on a Z790 system?