Introducing myself.
I did my first computer build in 2009, putting an Intel i7-920 on an Asus P6T. Upgraded to an i7-930 sometime the following year when I was able to pick it up for the same price at Microcenter as I was able to unload the 920 on eBay. Kept that chip and board until last month.
I got a good 8 years on the x58 platform, until I finally got the itch for a Coffee Lake upgrade in December. I bought an Intel 8700K bundled with the Asus ROG Strix Z370-E Gaming board, and picked up 16GB of G.Skill Trident Z RGB RAM. Also bought a 250GB Samsung 960 Evo NVME M.2 SSD .
Been happy with this setup, reusing my power supply, video card, case, and storage. I'm on Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit (moved from my old build, with Microsoft's hotline help in reactivation).
Oh, and changed out my CPU cooler from a Corsair Hydro H50 to a Corsair Hydro H100i v2.
Been a lot of fun, learning about NVME M.2, UEFI, etc. Awaiting firmware updates before purchasing a TPM module.
Don't plan on overclocking at this time, beyond bumping up my RAM beyond it's XMP profile speed (2400) to 2800. That was easy enough. I'm not real demanding on my computer, other than moderate multitasking (browsing, personal bookkeeping, some multimedia) and occasional gaming (recently playing a little Rainbow Six Siege and Tekken 7). When working remotely, I'm either on a corporate laptop or on a VM on my PC. I do use BitLocker on all my local drives, and Macrium Reflect for my backups (locally, and to a WD My Cloud network drive).
