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I've built a number of computers, most recently in 2011 using this i7 MOBO https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121362&cm_re=BLKDX58SO_Core_I7_Intel_X58-_-13-121-362-_-Product and this CPU https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115211. This is my current PC, & it's getting pretty slow, and I'd like to build a new one, but I'm really low on funds. Although I have no trouble with the tech aspects of building a PC, my knowledge of the various boards & CPU's is REALLY dated. Can anyone suggest a modern board/CPU combo which would be CHEAP, but significantly faster than these old pieces? I'd like to continue to use as much of my current hardware as possible, case, PSU, vid card, SATA drives, etc. I don't game, most resource demanding thing I use the machine for is DL'ing & playing high quality videos (movies, TV shows, etc.) from binary newsgroups. Not wedded to Intel, AMC (other options?) would be fine. Any input appreciated!

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It was never a myth and was just common misinfo from bad sources; like how you can download more ram.

Instead of doing your dual boot method, it's much easier to do a backup copy of a clean install on an external hdd. Plus I think everyone probably has some data that should be backed up (always externally back up). You can also clone your current install or I actually clone a fresh install after windows updates, drivers and I install my software which saves more time for future use. Just clone it to the external then if you ever have a hdd/ssd failure or some other mishap, you just clone the backup onto the pc and you are up and running in no time. Plus it makes reinstalls a snap as well. No messing with dual booting, partitioning...
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You'd have to go with high end expensive cpus for a significant performance improvement like you want but those tasks take next to nil and a cheapo phone/tablet could do it and you wouldn't know the difference. It's not the cpu that's the reason for your slowness. When's the last time windows was reinstalled? Do you have a ssd?
 
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Thanks for the reply. Yes, I really do need to reinstall the OS (7 home 64 bit). I did that routinely when I was running XP & earlier (god I miss win2k... ;-) , usually would set up a dual boot with the current OS & the reload, so I'd have a "working" operating system while I set up the new one. This was easy with XP & earlier, just edit boot.ini & you could pick an OS on boot, but I don't think that's possible with 7? I partitioned my OS drive (128 meg Samsung SSD) to do the reinstall, but I haven't gone any further, because I haven't been able to figure out a foolproof dual boot w/7 . I also thought maybe the SSD was getting slow from writing/rewriting, as they were said to do when they 1st came out, but that's pretty much been debunked, hasn't it?

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It was never a myth and was just common misinfo from bad sources; like how you can download more ram.

Instead of doing your dual boot method, it's much easier to do a backup copy of a clean install on an external hdd. Plus I think everyone probably has some data that should be backed up (always externally back up). You can also clone your current install or I actually clone a fresh install after windows updates, drivers and I install my software which saves more time for future use. Just clone it to the external then if you ever have a hdd/ssd failure or some other mishap, you just clone the backup onto the pc and you are up and running in no time. Plus it makes reinstalls a snap as well. No messing with dual booting, partitioning, editing boot.ini or other extra complications.
 
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Thanks for the replies. I do have another (even older) i7 running 10, personally I prefer 7, but that may be just because I'm more familiar with it. Frankly, I don't like any of this stuff much ;-)

k1114, can you suggest any particularly good resources/software to clone an OS? I have a 40 gig ssd I'm not using right now, could load the new install on that, then clone that install to the 128 gig once it's fully set up.
 
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You can't get much older than a 950. Nehalem, which it is, was the first i series.

If you have a wd hdd, they give acronis with it. Macrium, easus, clonezilla, plenty of good ones. The last time I used aomei backupper. There was a reason I didn't use those others but I don't remember why.
 
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