Computer Help and Support

At the moment, I'm scavenging a used replacement for the fried board in my current rig, both to give me time to do an orderly take-off of data (I got a bit careless with backups over the holiday, bad me) and to allow me to resurrect it long enough to deactivate the disc-based software installs so that I can activate them on a new machine.

Since the old ASRock Z87 board I'm looking to replace isn't exactly a common item (I did manage to locate one "used, in good condition&quot that's going to take a while, which will give me time to look around at the options of finding a ready-built that will meet my needs but will have to be de-bloated and disinfected, versus a build.

I don't do as much gaming as I used to, but I still do graphics-heavy tasks a fair bit.

I do tend to have a lot of big crunchy productivity apps running in multiple windows, run dual UHD monitors, things like working up multiple-overlay high detailed map images in one application while I'm listening to music on a media player while I'm fiddling with a database in another window, and testing user interfaces in two browsers open at the same time with lots of tabs going.

And so forth.

I have been hearing good things about the Ryzen chip series as opposed to Intel's generation 10 stuff, so I'm glad to know about someone's real-life experience.

I'm also thinking about moving the main storage location to a connected dedicated storage drive, but I'd still like plenty of RAM and enough solid state memory to manage two partitions with lots of active software, and not rub elbows or stutter.

So, yeah, anything you want to tell me about the latest and greatest will be most welcome.

appreciatively,
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