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Is this the correct group to discuss PC builds?
I was wondering if we could discuss PC parts in this group or if this is an unwanted topic for this group.
I was wondering if we could discuss PC parts in this group or if this is an unwanted topic for this group.
This is the first tip i give to everyone looking to buy a new PC. Buy a SSD to install your OS. I got mine one or two years ago and now my life is divided in two periods. Before and after the ssd. The boot time is really fast, specially if you use Linux.
The only thing that takes time now is the motherboard bios screen.
You can probably reduce/eliminate that time in the bios settings.
But yeah, the best part of building my own computer was getting an ssd and oodles of ram.
Yeah, these days even most entry level mobos BIOS' have a quick/fast boot setting somewhere in them now. Although if you're dual booting using your BIOS' default disk select options (rather than a bootloader) that can sometimes result in it being too quick, IMO. :P
I wonder if mine has this. It's a 7yo mobo. My cpu is an ivy bridge.
Even if not, there are usually a few things you can do to speed up the boot process, e.g. disable the RAID controller if your mobo has one and you aren't using it, disable POST report screen, disable anything you aren't using (like Firewire, PS/2), etc.
Thanks, i'll look into it. Never thought a about it. My setup is simple so i probably can disable a lot.
I rarely bot my machine and have quite enough RAM, though, so I wonder how much of a difference that would make.
It makes a world of difference. Trust me. Read/writes are fast.
Well, then I might ask for this topic to be moved from ~tech to ~comp.
I'm a little bit fuzzy on where to draw the line between general technology discussion and more professional material on computing. I'd assumed ~comp was specifically about programming and mathematics of computation - algorithms, machine learning, etc.
I've been using Tildes too long to be this ignorant, but please bear with me a moment. I just spent the last half-hour looking for a user-friendly listing of group descriptions, and wasn't able to locate anything like the text you just provided. Help, please?
And that's what I get for posting before coffee. I know I've seen those a thousand times, and they're simply not registering right now. Thank you for taking the time to indulge me.
On the flipside, I've gotten the assumption that ~tech is more of an "end user" perspective [end user being relative to the tildes audience].
PC builds cross the line between technician & end user, but I'd consider the average gaming/browsing build discussion to be more apropriate for ~tech unless there's something really state of the art going on (like building a cluster).
This is exactly why I asked this question!
Shouldn't meta posts like this be in ~tildes, even if they are about one certain group?
Great! Are there any proposed tags?
Me too, now that you mention it. Added those to my old build topic. And as a PC building enthusiast myself, I am looking forward to seeing what you post, @Nashooo. :)
p.s. Anyone else here a fan of LTT (Linus Tech Tips) at all?
Hmm... the wording of this topic is kinda odd for ~tildes. Any chance @Deimos or @Nashooo could edit it a little to make a bit more sense given its current location?
I actually opened this one since I thought OP was asking if ~tildes was an appropriate place for computer discussion, haha
That's my fault, I moved it here from ~comp and updated the title, but I probably shouldn't have. I'll just reverse my changes.
It has been moved and renamed it seems :)