carrierPigeon
Limp Gawd
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I am not up to speed on the current PC building environment. However, I was reading an article that was talking about how your components need to be compatible/ stable when combined in a build. In other words, if your computer consists of 7 parts, even if all of the parts work fine, the 7 of them combined might basically have hardware problems. Perhaps that's an elementary lesson to some of you. But, at best, that was something that was buried deep in my mind from several years ago.
Here is the article:
https://blog.codinghorror.com/is-your-computer-stable/
I have upgraded my graphics card, ram, and hard drive. I have also put in and taken out a new power supply a few times (defective, and then I was concerned it was causing some problems that I was experiencing).
How far down in your list of upgrades do you have to go before you need to start thinking of the machine as a new build, instead of a "no thought" upgrade?
In the process of doing upgrades, I ran into a lot of problems. Mysteriously, the problems disappeared after really no changes, just trying it again and again (taking hardware out and putting it back in a month later).
Here is the article:
https://blog.codinghorror.com/is-your-computer-stable/
I have upgraded my graphics card, ram, and hard drive. I have also put in and taken out a new power supply a few times (defective, and then I was concerned it was causing some problems that I was experiencing).
How far down in your list of upgrades do you have to go before you need to start thinking of the machine as a new build, instead of a "no thought" upgrade?
In the process of doing upgrades, I ran into a lot of problems. Mysteriously, the problems disappeared after really no changes, just trying it again and again (taking hardware out and putting it back in a month later).