Analyze Component Store - 2 reclaimable packages?

Scannerman · Nov 8, 2025

hader said:
Well a Xeon CPU is not a home costumer product. And yes at the time that I bought my current PC. I saw the i9 prices and those of the i7 ones. The i9 was a very expensive product for me. To much. And had it more power than a i7? No. Only the top range with many core has. An i7 is one of the most priced and powerful product that Intel made. Now Intel? Sounds from the market is that AMD producing more powerful CPU than Intel does. Whenever you look you will look at these 2 company's. I wasn't always an Intel guy. Bought my first AMD Athlon after I had a Pentium III in that weird and strange package; "stick-it-into-your-motherboard" solution. The AMD versions after that were faster. Went after a few generations back to Intel with their i7. Both are struggling to keep ahead. Intel is staring into space after the i9. (Still a leader) AMD is going ahead now and their popularity is rising with their Ryzen 5 and 7 solutions.

I've decided to draw the line on my 7960X — 16 cores, 32 threads, 44 lanes. More than I'll ever need. I cannot justify having more than this and Gen 7 seems a good place to stay put for this old boomer. AMD went stellar with ThreadRipper and Epyc but that stuff is too rich for my blood and totally unnecessary for my purposes. Intel took a big hit with Spectre/Meltdown. AMD had their security issues too, but nothing nearly so dramatic. I wasn't always an AMD guy and I'm still not. I started with Windows at the turn of the Millennium when I purchased my own Windows Mistake Edition on a Sony VAIO although I am no stranger to Win 95 and 98 as my employer had these. So my first Intel CPU was also a Pentium III.

As for the SHA stuff, I'm not telling people how I got the latest version of Win 11 to run on a 15 year old PC. I'm going to leave that to their imaginations. At that point I would concur with getting newer hardware for a newer OS. What I don't agree with is PCs that were three and five years old being excluded from using Windows 11 due to already-proven-faulty TPM requirements and very expensive platforms that legitimately ran Windows 10 just fine. These were being dubbed non-compliant when they're not even 10 years old or barely even half that old. No sir, that's a munny grab and a kick in the teeth.

I'm sorry to say it but there are so many reasons NOT to use Windows 11 that it is enough to make one dizzy. The only reason I'm still using it is for those OLDER <--- emphasis on "older" apps that only work with Windows. Once Microsoft takes those away I won't have any more reasons left to use Windows. I don't use Co Pilot, I don't use One Drive, I don't use Windows Hello, I have little use for anything AI, I don't use bit locker, and I certainly wouldn't bother with TPM and its sordid history of stolen keys if it wasn't a mandatory requirement compliments of Windows. Is it any wonder Microsoft is doing all that they can to eliminate local accounts? A closer study of what they want to do with the TPM infrastructure raises my hackles. The game is clear: They put it in our faces and pretend to take it away but the infrastructure is still there. MS doesn't give a flying rip about user end privacy. This is only a ruse.

I run two RAID 10 arrays on this unit, Three RAID 1, and one RAID zero that has been running strong for seven years. AMAZING! I thought RAID 0 was volatile but it hasn't died yet and my data is backed up for when it does. Sooner or later all drives die. I use both soft RAID and HBA. I'm thinking about running MEGA RAID on the X299 build. It's fun to tinker with all this old stuff. That's what I do. I'm going the way of the dino and I know it but I may as well have fun while I'm at it. Looks like both of my work stations will be 7/11s. The real challenge will be keeping Linux on them.

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