2018 Hardware Thread

Geneo said:

You might try macrium reflect "restore to different hardware" feature from an image backup. I did this going from a 4790k to 8700k. I still had some difficulties with it assigning the wrong "driver" to the processor cores, but I was able to straighten it out with some amount of fiddling.

I did this because I have a fair number of licensed software that I didn't want to have to hassle with.

As for it being better than a clean install for other reasons, I don't agree. I can't tell you how many times I have restored from backup. Reflect will optimize the drive for you after restore or you can use the windows defragger optimize to trigger the garbage collection - which holds true for a fresh install as well. It doesn't take very long for the SSD to optimize.

I agree a clean install is always better.

New Asus Z390 motherboards
ASUS officially confirms Z390 / MAXIMUS XI motherboard series - VideoCardz.com
Asus entwickelt derzeit 19 Mainboards mit Z390-Chipsatz | PC Builders Club

Maximus XI

• ROG MAXIMUS XI APEX
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Z390 Strix

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Z390 Prime

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Z390 TUF

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Z390 Dragon

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pillainp said:

Got a question.

I am doing my upgrade build with the parts I posted last tomorrow, and I was wondering... (Linky)

I will be using the 970 Evo M.2 as my system drive. Will I be able to simply clone my current install from my 840 Pro to the 970 Evo and will Windows then detect the new motherboard and system drivers and install by itself so I can have the system up and running? Or will such a drastic change (motherboard, CPU and RAM + M.2 drive) require me to go through the pain of reinstalling and updating Windows and all my apps?

OS is Windows 10 Pro x64.

There have been lots of comments on cloning or clean, I won't wade into that.

I noticed that he is also going to use a new motherboard ( I assume CPU ).

Won't this cause some issues with activation of license (unless it is retail) and should he not be linking license to MS id to reduce the potential issue.

Use Activation Troubleshooter in Windows 10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti video card benchmark result - Genuine Intel(R) CPU 0000 @ 3.10GHz,ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG STRIX Z370-F GAMING

Polo6RGTI said:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti video card benchmark result - Genuine Intel(R) CPU 0000 @ 3.10GHz,ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG STRIX Z370-F GAMING

Damn 0 nm?
8 Cores with black holes?
What's this new architecture, Zero Point Singularity Lake?

Intel CPU batch number codes

[Sammelthread] Intel Coffee Lake-S (Sockel 1151) OC-Ergebnis-Thread! KEIN Quatschthread!

8700K Batch number: L743E096

1st letter or digit = Plant code:
0 = San Jose, Costa Rica
1 = Cavite, Philippines
3 = Costa Rica
6 = Chandler, Arizona
7 = Philippines
8 = Leixlip, Ireland
9 = Penang, Malaysia
L = Malaysia
Q = Malaysia
R = Manila, Philippines
X = Vietnam
Y = Leixlip, Ireland

2nd digit = Year of production: 2017

3rd & 4th digits = Week: 43

5th - 8th digits= Lot number: E096

Lot's of "how does it work" tidbits in this video, besides what the title say's:
Pay attention specially about memory benchmarking scores, versus real world.

This is some really interesting find: