On 04/19/2016 08:39 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 23:18:49 -0700
Wayne D <waydavis@centurylink.net> wrote:
The EXISTING scenario: Win 7 machine with stability issues that are
most likely due to a combination of gremlins that this user attracts
like dust to a mop over a period of 6 to 9 months of use. Data
corruption is a possibility, Virii and other nasties are most likely
lurking as well. I suspect MUCH of it has been a result of internet
activity.
But, unless you've done more tests than you mention here, the cause
could be bad caps, or a bad RAM stick, or iffy disk drive, or an
intermittent connection, or a single bad OS config setting, or
temperature problems caused by the excessive dust you mention. Except
for bad caps, these things could be fixed without purchasing a new
machine, and if the current machine has kvm capability, you can still
implement the software strategy you mention.
It has had problems since day one apparently. MY fix for the old box, which will become his emergency fall-back- machine is to install a monster cpu cooler in it and upgrade all the fans in it.
By the way, what I do every time I set a tower computer on the floor,
is I set it on a 10" blank 3 or 4 inches higher than the floor, to
lessen acquisition of carpet-dust.
THAT is actually a part of the issue - the machine's location IS in a space that could recirc some of the air. THAT is going to stop.
It's a 4 core machine and the user is not happy with the speed AND>
has complained of heat issues.
MY solution: Build a a new HYBRID machine that hardware for hardware
is a updated clone of my own primary machine. Based on LinuxMINT
17.3 Cinnamon and run win10 inside a VM for those apps that require
it and run chrome or Firefox for the web based stuff from the Linux
side.. Backups via clonezilla and copies of the vm file.
Sounds good to me. I'd recommend Qemu rather than Virtualbox for the VM.
HMM, qemu??? Never heard of, or used it. WHY is it better than virtualbox?
Alternate is to run pure win10 with ACRONIS for backup.
You could also run a VM guest for Mint on the Windows computer.
I never considered that, only because it makes the core OS the one that is vulnerable to attack.
The new machine will consist of:
ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 AM3+ AMD 990FX + SB950 8 x SATA 6GB/s USB
3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS (MILITARY GRADE MB)
I'm not a fan of UEFI boot. Does this mobo have legacy boot so that you
can boot to an MBR? On my box I boot to a 256GB SSD, with big >2TB
spinning disks mounted on mountpoints on the SSD. MY /usr
and /usr/local are on SSD, so they're fast, but there's very little
write activity on my SSD. It's fast, and it's been running well for
about a year.
Some day UEFI might be good, but right now you hear too much about
people bricking their mobos via interaction with their OS and the UEFI
storage area, or Linux people doing rm -rf only to find out that
included the mounted UEFI variable area.
And then there's the whole Secure Boot fiasco. No problem if you use a
major Linux that's purchased a key from Microsoft, but all bets are off
if you compile your own kernel.
You really know how to pee on a parade... LOL Ya, I'm cringing a little over this one.
If I were going to get this case, I'd splurge for the optional 2nd
120mm top fan, and the optional 120mm front fan, and probably tape over
the fan mount on the left side. And of course I'd mount my hard drives
where the front fan blows on them, and try to keep distance between
them.
Ya, I have three 120mm Noctua's in the build. (I) am using the same setup but with a Arctic Freezer Xtreme Rev 2
I ran eight instances of BurnK6 loading all cores to 100%. 78 room temp, got to 122 and NO HIGHER on the cpu. A HUGE difference from the stock AMD fan setup.
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