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Mark_Venture · 23rd July 2018, 04:05

Well I'm back to this thread about upgrades...

Besides "My PC" which I upgraded earlier in this thread.. I have my "Media Server" PC, and my son's PC... After the upgrades done earlier in this thread... the "old parts" (my i7-860, its mother board and ram) were moved to the "Media Server" and its parts put in my son's PC...

Long story short... those other two PC's were OLD (the i7-860 was from 2009, and my son was running a Q6700 on an intel DG33TL board which was even older!), so they were in need of upgrades... so in my usual fashion, I just upgraded mine, and cascaded parts down the line... (media server being the middle, and my son's being last.)

On Prime Day, I saw deals on an i7-8700K, Asus Prime Z710-A motherboard, and G.SKILL ram, which knocked off about $150 over all, then I used my Prime Store Card to get 5% back too... so I dove in..

I didn't expect to see much improvement going from i7-6700K to i7-8700K, at least nothing like going from the i7-860 to i7-6700K anway..

Now my rig is...
Motherboard: Asus Prime Z370-A
CPU: Intel Boxed Core I7-8700K (8th Gen) Coffee Lake 3.7Ghz 12MB Cache Processor LGA 1151 BX80684178700K
Heatsink/Fan: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler with 120mm PWM Fan
Paste: Arctic Silver 5 AS5-3.5G Thermal Paste
Memory: G.SKILL 16GB (2x 8GB) - G.Skill Ripjaws V Series F4-3200C16D-16GVGB (Running in XMP mode PC3200)
Case: Antec Nine Hundred II case
Power: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 G3, 80 Plus Gold 1000W
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SSC ACX2.0 04G-P4-3979-KB
Keyboard/Mouse: Logitech MK520 Wireless Keyboard & Mouse (USB receiver)
Internal Drives:
Qty 1 - 500gb Samsung 850 EVO SSD - Bootmanager, Win 7 64bit, Win 10
Qty 1 - 250gb Samsung 840 SSD - Win 7 64bit
Qty 1 - 1Tb Western Digital Black SATAII - WD1001FALS
Qty 1 - 4Tb Western Digital RED 4 TB SATA III 64 MB - WD40EFRX
Qty 1 - 4Tb Western Digital Mainstream/Blue SATA III - WD40EZRZ
Qty 1 - 3Tb Western Digital Mainstream/Blue SATA III - WD30EZRZ
Bluray: LG BH16NS40 BD-RW/DVD-RW (via Port 2 on SI-PEX40057, see below)
Syba 4 Port SATA III PCI-e 2.0 x2 HyperDuo RAID Card (SI-PEX40057) plugged into PCIEX16_3 slot in X2 mode.
Antec Easy SATA - Hot Swap Hard Drive Caddy w/Esata port (via Port 1 on SI-PEX40057, see above)

and I have a few external drives..

After swapping board/cpu/cooler/memory, I tackled my Windows 7 partitions the same way as I mentioned in Post #5 of this thread... (booted the DVD, selected repair, opened a command prompt and used the dism to push the drivers on...) The Windows 10 partition booted up so I manually installed any missing drivers...

As a test, I dug out Mission Impossible 5 and ran it again... This time under Windows 10, with the most recent copy of BD Rebuilder (v0.50.25), and used the same settings...

[20:36:56] Source: MISSION_IMPOSSIBLE_5_00800
[21:30:26] JOB: MISSION_IMPOSSIBLE_5 finished.

At 53 minutes 30 seconds, its as expected, slightly faster than the 1 hours 12 minutes 54 seconds using the i7-6700K (difference of 19 min 24 seconds), but not night and day like the i7-860 to 6700K upgrade.

More importantly, when using Plex on my media server to sync offline content to my tablets, is MUCH faster, now that is has the i7-6700K. And my son's PC is a little bit faster for him too.

Considering the prime day deals, I didn't break the bank, so my wife is happy... It was relatively painless to move the parts around. and I got a speed boost now for two of my PC's (I don't think my son will really notice upgrade). Sure I'm late on the 8700K train, and probably could have waited until the 9th Gen i7 comes out, but that will likely be a few months away, and who knows how much faster, or more expensive it will be... and if it wasn't for the deals, I probably would have waited.

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Mark_Venture Registered User Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 227	Well I'm back to this thread about upgrades... Besides "My PC" which I upgraded earlier in this thread.. I have my "Media Server" PC, and my son's PC... After the upgrades done earlier in this thread... the "old parts" (my i7-860, its mother board and ram) were moved to the "Media Server" and its parts put in my son's PC... Long story short... those other two PC's were OLD (the i7-860 was from 2009, and my son was running a Q6700 on an intel DG33TL board which was even older!), so they were in need of upgrades... so in my usual fashion, I just upgraded mine, and cascaded parts down the line... (media server being the middle, and my son's being last.) On Prime Day, I saw deals on an i7-8700K, Asus Prime Z710-A motherboard, and G.SKILL ram, which knocked off about $150 over all, then I used my Prime Store Card to get 5% back too... so I dove in.. I didn't expect to see much improvement going from i7-6700K to i7-8700K, at least nothing like going from the i7-860 to i7-6700K anway.. Now my rig is... Motherboard: Asus Prime Z370-A CPU: Intel Boxed Core I7-8700K (8th Gen) Coffee Lake 3.7Ghz 12MB Cache Processor LGA 1151 BX80684178700K Heatsink/Fan: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler with 120mm PWM Fan Paste: Arctic Silver 5 AS5-3.5G Thermal Paste Memory: G.SKILL 16GB (2x 8GB) - G.Skill Ripjaws V Series F4-3200C16D-16GVGB (Running in XMP mode PC3200) Case: Antec Nine Hundred II case Power: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 G3, 80 Plus Gold 1000W Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SSC ACX2.0 04G-P4-3979-KB Keyboard/Mouse: Logitech MK520 Wireless Keyboard & Mouse (USB receiver) Internal Drives: Qty 1 - 500gb Samsung 850 EVO SSD - Bootmanager, Win 7 64bit, Win 10 Qty 1 - 250gb Samsung 840 SSD - Win 7 64bit Qty 1 - 1Tb Western Digital Black SATAII - WD1001FALS Qty 1 - 4Tb Western Digital RED 4 TB SATA III 64 MB - WD40EFRX Qty 1 - 4Tb Western Digital Mainstream/Blue SATA III - WD40EZRZ Qty 1 - 3Tb Western Digital Mainstream/Blue SATA III - WD30EZRZ Bluray: LG BH16NS40 BD-RW/DVD-RW (via Port 2 on SI-PEX40057, see below) Syba 4 Port SATA III PCI-e 2.0 x2 HyperDuo RAID Card (SI-PEX40057) plugged into PCIEX16_3 slot in X2 mode. Antec Easy SATA - Hot Swap Hard Drive Caddy w/Esata port (via Port 1 on SI-PEX40057, see above) and I have a few external drives.. After swapping board/cpu/cooler/memory, I tackled my Windows 7 partitions the same way as I mentioned in Post #5 of this thread... (booted the DVD, selected repair, opened a command prompt and used the dism to push the drivers on...) The Windows 10 partition booted up so I manually installed any missing drivers... As a test, I dug out Mission Impossible 5 and ran it again... This time under Windows 10, with the most recent copy of BD Rebuilder (v0.50.25), and used the same settings... [20:36:56] Source: MISSION_IMPOSSIBLE_5_00800 [21:30:26] JOB: MISSION_IMPOSSIBLE_5 finished. At 53 minutes 30 seconds, its as expected, slightly faster than the 1 hours 12 minutes 54 seconds using the i7-6700K (difference of 19 min 24 seconds), but not night and day like the i7-860 to 6700K upgrade. More importantly, when using Plex on my media server to sync offline content to my tablets, is MUCH faster, now that is has the i7-6700K. And my son's PC is a little bit faster for him too. Considering the prime day deals, I didn't break the bank, so my wife is happy... It was relatively painless to move the parts around. and I got a speed boost now for two of my PC's (I don't think my son will really notice upgrade). Sure I'm late on the 8700K train, and probably could have waited until the 9th Gen i7 comes out, but that will likely be a few months away, and who knows how much faster, or more expensive it will be... and if it wasn't for the deals, I probably would have waited. Last edited by Mark_Venture; 23rd July 2018 at 05:13.