The computer corner
Yep! Finally a new computer is about to arrive within about 2-3 weeks. The computer store will build and test it for me
because I'm little nervous about to install all the expensive stuff. It's going to be the best
upgradeable PC I ever had!
Here are the components I've ordered and I hope everything will go well.
You may have better hardware in your country.
With reservation for updates and corrections:
Computer case
Fractal Design Define R6 Black, Tempered Glass
Glass so I will see the fire in time
Mainboard
ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-F GAMING
(Audio: ROG SupremeFX S1220A)
RAM
HyperX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 2666MHz CL15 Fury Black
(There's support for 64 GB on the mainboard though)
CPU
Intel Core i7 9700K 3.6 GHz 12MB
(5000 SEK... Oh! - My fault cus I wanted latest available)
CPU Fan
be quiet! Pure Rock Slim
SDD Hard drive
Samsung 970 EVO 250 GB
(For Win 10 and important apps, I have bigger mechanical hard drives)
Upgrade November 25, 2019: SDD Hard drive - Samsung 970 EVO 500 GB
Power supply
be quiet! Pure Power 11 600W
Graphics card
ASUS GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Cerberus OC
(I know there's better, can always upgrade later)
Upgrade November 25, 2019: Graphics card: ASUS GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6GB DUAL OC EVO
Operating system
Windows 10 Home Swedish 64-bit
(Well... but it's 64-bit, finally. The only what's useful in Win 10 PRO is BitLocker - A little wrong, seems like there's more?
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Edit: RAM 16GB 4x4 Gb is changed to 2x8 GB for best compatibility
I'm just not sure about to buy CL16 instead of CL15...
They said that I won't notice the difference between CL15 and CL16.
Another question is if I need 3200 MHz instead of 2666 MHz???
(At this time it's better with 2666 MHz, it depends)
Everything is in stock except for the mainboard.............
2018-11-28
Everything is in stock now and I don't remember the date for that but it's going to be soon!
2018-12-03
My new computer isn't finished, I hope I will have it on Saturday December 8.
2018-12-07
My computer was finished yesterday afternoon and tomorrow it's Saturday
I haven't ordered any screen because it would to be too expensive but I've been looking for it.
Right now I have an old BenQ LCD-E2200HD and it's 22" is a little too small to view the online sequencer properly.
I'm a little nervous because I've had bad luck with some investments before. One thing that I'm thinking about is
disturbing noise like buzzing and high frequency sounds that is hard to get rid of. Let's hope for the best.
2018-12-12
I'm satisfied so far. The audio is better here now and no much problem with 8-bit anymore, I can play all 8-bit
instruments at the same time --> [url=
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All 8-bit Test_996374_WIP[/url] <-- The flute is same as before though.
2018-12-20
WinRAR is compressing files a lot faster now, the converting of videos and loading MP3 in Audacity too.
Eveything isn't good though. There was registering issues with ASUS of the motherboard and a free game.
I will not tell details about what happened every day the last week but I've been very frustrated. Hopefully
everything will be sorted out before Christmas. BUT - One thing that might take a long time to fix is that I
cannot record my best songs to SoundCloud anymore.
2019-01-06
I still cannot record. The host was not found in Audacity after I got an idea about to start Windows voice recorder and
then something got activated. Now when I press the record button in Audacity it starts finally. However, the volume
on the recordings is almost NOTHING! It's the same both with the microphone and when I try to record a song with
streaming audio - stereo mix or "what you can hear" as it was called before. On the microphone it's 100 % volume
and + 30 dB. Still there's almost nothing. I'm sad. I've never had such problem with my old computers.
2019-01-06
I can now finally record streaming audio! It means that I can record my songs again!
I still don't know what to do with the microphone but it's less important for now. The reason as I know for now about
streaming audio regording is that I need to put the volume on the loudspekars much higher than I had to on the old
computer where I got noise disturbances if it was too loud. The disturbances was however not noticeable very much
except for some weird lines in Audacity and a thicker line on the left channel. There's nothing like that on this new
computer and I'm happy for that.
2019-01-17
I've finally got the game that came along with the new mother board but I had to download 87 GB, it took a whole day.
It's Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, a violent game not for kids. I'm not impressed about the game style but the graphic is amazing.
Since I got poor after the buy a free game is welcome. I got a chance to test my new computer and it did it well
2019-11-25
I've upgraded my computer with:
SDD Hard drive - Samsung 970 EVO 500 GB (storage disk)
Graphics card: ASUS GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6GB DUAL OC EVO
2020-08-31
I have problem with the computer. I cannot use microphone and it sounds weird sometimes.
What is good is that I can record my sequences and play games. The warranty runs out in
December 2020 so I must bring it to the store soon maybe in October or November.
Need to save up money first and I hope that I will not have covid-19.
2021-01-27
My computer was repaired in December 2020 and it's better now, I can finally use the microphone
and the computer is faster. It became very slow after updates in September 2020. They replaced
the motherboard and reinstalled Windows 10.