I undertook a sizeable upgrade today, bringing a skylake era build into the 2020s with a 13th gen. All core components- memory, motherboard, GPU, everything must goā¦ except the drives. We were nervous, my friend really felt we should reinstall. There was debate, and drama. Considerations and exceptions. No, I couldnāt let my OS go. I have spent years tweaking and tuning, molding my ideal computing environment. We pushed forward.
Well Iām pleased to say it was mostly uneventful. The ethernet adapter was renamed causing misconfigured dhcp, but otherwise it booted right up like nothing happened. Sorry, linux is boring now.
Iām going to do the same later this year as like you my setup is 10 years plus, though Iāll re-install Arch again What MB, GPU card etc did you buy? , as Iām out of touch with the latest equipment now, so would be grateful for a heads up
I like your build a lot. Donāt forget to move your OS to another drive via clone or something occasionallyā¦ Your old drive will wear out eventually. If itās SSD, they often just work until they just donāt, so itās not like the old days when an HDD would just slow down and give you a warning.
Cheers!
Thank you :) I tried to be reasonable with it, itās all too easy to break the bank haha. I have two āsystemā ssds that replicates itself with a weekly rsync job, and the larger storage SSD has an even larger SATA HDD it syncs to. Good looking out!
I can recommend this site for up-to-date and fairly neutral parts recommendations split by budget https://www.logicalincrements.com
^^^ so many motherboards available not sure what iād even be looking for
Motherboards are tough to recommend because it really depends what you need from your system. My approach was to choose a CPU first then I could start looking at boards supporting the socket. I wanted ATX, nothing smaller. Memory support, just DDR5 and room to expand (it turns out most boards will handle like 192GB these days lol). I wanted the ability to change CPU frequency, that eliminated boards with a B-series chipsets. Next SSD support (at least 3x m.2) and USB ports (minimum 6x USB 3.0). Finally price, I didnāt want to exceed $250.
When all that was dialed in, I was left with like 8 options, from there it was manageable to read reviews for the nuance between them.
