Time for an upgrade

[Vipersan]

Finally decided to go 64bit on my main PC ...
It will run win7
mint and possibly 8.1 (classic shell)
Took a trip up to the bank today to cash in my 'loose change pot' ..
Amazing how quickly this accumilates ..
bagged a total of £350 ...
..and converted it into this 'bundle' ..
Priced the individual parts seperately and found not much of a saving ...
So took the plunge..
Intel i7 4790K 4.4Ghz Quad Core ASUS Z97-P Motherboard & CPU Bundle 8GB DDR3

I guess it will be last upgrade for some time ...fingers crossed ..

Comments welcomed.
rgds
VS

 

[Vipersan]

..Whilst I dont mind the O/S build and reinstalling the various softwares and apps ..
The real pita for me at any rate is ..
Moving the emails and bookmarks etc ..
Is there an easy way to do this ..
Export > Import ..
I use Thunderbird ....IE11 and Firefox ..
Anyone ?

Win7 32 bit > win7 64 bit

 

[Archive-8]

Wish you all the best with it, I will be watching outfit your reports. As I can do with a PC upgrade at some point.

Just I have higher priorities at the moment.

My family used to have one of the pub optic bottles as "small change jar" and one Christmas we all decided to cash it in,

We had over £450. As the saying goes every little helps.

 

[4wd]

Is there an easy way to do this ..

TB & FF, not only easy, very easy :O) What is Mozbackup and how does one use it ? | Firefox Support Forum | Mozilla Support

 

[Vipersan]

Many thanks 4wd ..
I will not be destroying my original PC ...
This will be moved to my shop/workplace as it is way faster than what I already have there ..
The new build will simply replace the old ...physically..
Having took the plunge Im quite looking forward to it
Its been a while since I built a new PC ..instead of just upgrades and repairs..
rgds
VS

 

[Lazarus]

Just navigate to your Thunderbird and Mozilla Profiles and save them to a USB stick.

Then simply replace the blank Profiles on the new machine.

I back mine up monthly along with other critical stuff.

I have used Mozbackup myself in the past, and that's very useful too, as 4WD says.

 

[Lazarus]

C/Users/Evan/App Data (hidden)/Roaming then Moz or Tbird.

QED.

 

[Vipersan]

Now ..the case ...
I hate these gaming cases with flashing lights and shaped like aliens ...so chose this one ...
Hope you guys approve..
902 SYSTEM BUILDERS BLACK ATX TOWER COMPUTER PC CASE - FRONT USB & AUDIO & MIC

 

[Archive-8]

Just as a thought, isn't it the Asus motherboards the tbs cards have a problem with?

As I have seen some really good deals with an Asus board.

 

[Archive4]

Now ..the case ...
I hate these gaming cases with flashing lights and shaped like aliens ...so chose this one ...
Hope you guys approve..
902 SYSTEM BUILDERS BLACK ATX TOWER COMPUTER PC CASE - FRONT USB & AUDIO & MIC

Just the words black tower make it sound good to me;)

 

[Vipersan]

Just as a thought, isn't it the Asus motherboards the tbs cards have a problem with?

As I have seen some really good deals with an Asus board.

I can only hope this problem was sorted Chris ...or I will be an unhappy bunny...

 

[Archive7]

Now ..the case ...
I hate these gaming cases with flashing lights and shaped like aliens ...so chose this one ...
Hope you guys approve..
902 SYSTEM BUILDERS BLACK ATX TOWER COMPUTER PC CASE - FRONT USB & AUDIO & MIC

I use a Fractal Design case for my PC and have recently upgraded a friend's PC to slightly smaller model, as his case was rubbish.
Please check this manufacturer, if you haven't already ordered the case.
http://www.fractal-design.com/

 

[Vipersan]

I use a Fractal Design case for my PC and have recently upgraded a friend's PC to slightly smaller model, as his case was rubbish.
Please check this manufacturer, if you haven't already ordered the case.
http://www.fractal-design.com/

Beautiful cases buddy ...but have already placed the order ...and also need to keep cost to a minimum now having bought the 'guts'..
rgds
VS

 

[Archive7]

I can only hope this problem was sorted Chris ...or I will be an unhappy bunny...

I didn't notice the price tag £19.18 well can't beat that. Just add ventilators at the front and the back to cool the PC, especially with i7 CPU
Looks like the holes at the back are for 120mm not 140mm.

 

[Vipersan]

I didn't notice the price tag £19.18 well can't beat that. Just add ventilators at the front and the back to cool the PC, especially with i7 CPU
Looks like the holes at the back are for 120mm not 140mm.

I will indeed add extra cooling ..though it wont be used as a gaming PC ..so unlikely to reach max temp ..
rgds
VS

 

[4wd]

Mozbackup is really good. Takes care of everything, bookmarks, settings, email files & attachments, passwords, server settings, addons etc. Stable as a rock and a makes otherwise very tedious work a 2 minutes job.

Install on both pc's.
backup from 1st pc to a usb stick (run twice, FF & TB )
usb stick to 2nd pc (FF and TB programs already installed), restore (twice, FF & TB )

Also good to make safety backups. Author deserves donations.

 

[Lazarus]

Unfortunately the Author has declared that, despite Mozbackup having known problems, he is no longer in a position to maintain/improve it.

I had thought, perhaps, of installing it again, but will stick with my manual Profile backups.

Mozbackup is, after all, just a small routine with its own GUI that essentially copies selected parts, or all, of the Profile(s).

Possibly marginally quicker than navigating manually to the Profiles (Which, of course, contain Preferences, Bookmarks, Extensions, Passwords, E Mails etc.), but we're talking a few key strokes.

I haven't done it myself, but it would be a simple matter to cut out the navigation and simply create File Manager shortcuts to the two Profiles. A simple Cut and Paste would then be all that is required.

QED.

 

[Lazarus]

PS: There's also Firefox's inbuilt Sync feature, but I have found it to be a right royal PITA and wouldn't recommend it.

 

[Archive7]

Sorry guys, slightly off topic, but I have got my eye on this Asrock new mini PC system based on mini-STX footprint
ASRock Mini-STX
Not an upgrade but in addition too. I think it is lighter than a laptop and more flexible. Can take it abroad, but need to buy an LCD monitor there, perhaps 2nd hand.

 

[aceb]

You might want to find a few more quid to double up the memory to 16gig especially if you're using on board video with a couple of monitors and you'll probably want to get a decent cpu cooler. Once you start crunching 10meg on Airspy that little thing will be louder than a 747 taking off, the BeQuiet range are cheap and silent.
If you intend playing around with the lower bands then branded PSUs are a good bet for EMC, something like Corsair, Seasonic or BeQuiet, I've seen some really crap cheap ones, CE stickered but with all the mains filtering replaced by wire links.
If you can afford it get an SSD for the OS, I went for a 250GB Corsair and I'm really impressed with the speed of it, much better than the SATA III drive it replaced.
This is how my SDR/sat PC has evolved complete with a pair of 24" monitors (both of which I found in skips!), the huge amount of desktop space is great when you're running four or five separate programmes and saves loads of window moving and minimising.