Finally, after about 10 years, a newer PC!
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Some of the real heavy-duty computer guys will chime in, but I found out a few weeks ago it's a great idea to have a backup power supply, especially if your electric co-op has frequent outages. Early fall, we had several rounds of storms, and some close lightning strikes that knocked out the power about a dozen times, then on two separate days, a racpuppies and a possum decided they wanted some juice.
What it did was cause my c drive to have have an error and my system wouldn't boot. I replaced the drive, and now I'm back in business, but the data I lost was pretty important.
If you guys have stuff you can't afford to lose, as they say, back that shiznit up.
Now I bought a new system off the shelf in 2011, it came with a 3.4 ghz dual core AMD, and that was about it. It now has 16gb of memory, a 1TB c drive, a 3TB "storage" drive, and about 5 more or less (mostly less, I leave my stuff alone when it's working) portable HDD units. I also am a part time gamer, and have moved into creating game mods as a hobby.
One of the games I work with is a system hog, so things need to be robust to deal with it. I've also got a 2 gig Nvidia graphics card, and a few little tweaks to make the computer run a little better. Next time out though, I will simply get a full tower case, and most likely an 8 core processor...I've done some video editing with one of those and those s really cook along.
I've got about 900 bucks in mine, but if I had shopped around and found deals and rebates, I could have saved a few bucks and had a bigger case for more stuff later on..
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