Post by cowboy40 on Jun 21, 2024 9:12:41 GMT -7
I usually build my own computers. I still do, but I needed a computer fast: my old work station that finally gave up on me, and its hardware was starting to loose support. For these reasons, i went ahead and bought an ASUS ROG G10DK to use as my editing station and light game rig. It also has 7.1 onboard audio that actually sounds as good as a sound card would have, so I didn't have to use the old sound card i have.
It isn't a bad computer, It has an AMD Ryzon 7 5600X cpu, 64 gigs of RAM, and a nVIDIA RTX-3060 gpu and it also had onboard AND graphics. As I said, it isn't a bad "pre-built" of the floor. This configuration was introduced in 2022.
What i do find sad about it all is the fact that the "industry" doesn't give me the option to put some things on it, that I consider necessary for the things I do with a computer. The motherboard comes well equipped with SATA ports and around 10 USB ports. That said, the case does not have a bay that can put an optical drive in and there is no way to mount an internal 3.5 inch floppy drive.
Yes, I still have a need for 3.5 inch floppies. I am still a bit old school. LOL
Though the plenty of USB ports gave me some options. I had to add some external drives to meet my needs. Yew you can still get external floppy drives. You can even purchase a 5.25 external floppy drive. I, also, purchased an external optical drive.
I added an extra PCIex1 four port USB 3.0 card i had in the old computer that brought the USB port count to twelve, and yes it is starting to get to the point that you need that...lol.
The machine came with a 250GB M.2 that i keep Windows 11 on to use as a boot drive. and i 1TB storage HDD. well i needed more space then that so I added another 1TB HDD, and another 500GB SATA SSD that i had hanging around in my parts box.
I sued the last SATA connector on the board to mount another 250GB SSD to use as a boot drive for the Linux Mint 21.3 OS of the duel boot system.
I mentioned earlier that the machine has 64 gigs of RAM, that wasn't factory install I replaced the 8 gigs of low end RAM with better TFORCE RAM in the slots.
in the end it is similar to what I probably would have built myself...
It isn't a bad computer, It has an AMD Ryzon 7 5600X cpu, 64 gigs of RAM, and a nVIDIA RTX-3060 gpu and it also had onboard AND graphics. As I said, it isn't a bad "pre-built" of the floor. This configuration was introduced in 2022.
What i do find sad about it all is the fact that the "industry" doesn't give me the option to put some things on it, that I consider necessary for the things I do with a computer. The motherboard comes well equipped with SATA ports and around 10 USB ports. That said, the case does not have a bay that can put an optical drive in and there is no way to mount an internal 3.5 inch floppy drive.
Yes, I still have a need for 3.5 inch floppies. I am still a bit old school. LOL
Though the plenty of USB ports gave me some options. I had to add some external drives to meet my needs. Yew you can still get external floppy drives. You can even purchase a 5.25 external floppy drive. I, also, purchased an external optical drive.
I added an extra PCIex1 four port USB 3.0 card i had in the old computer that brought the USB port count to twelve, and yes it is starting to get to the point that you need that...lol.
The machine came with a 250GB M.2 that i keep Windows 11 on to use as a boot drive. and i 1TB storage HDD. well i needed more space then that so I added another 1TB HDD, and another 500GB SATA SSD that i had hanging around in my parts box.
I sued the last SATA connector on the board to mount another 250GB SSD to use as a boot drive for the Linux Mint 21.3 OS of the duel boot system.
I mentioned earlier that the machine has 64 gigs of RAM, that wasn't factory install I replaced the 8 gigs of low end RAM with better TFORCE RAM in the slots.
in the end it is similar to what I probably would have built myself...