Need a new PC
Apr. 13th, 2025 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ffuturesMy Windows box is getting increasingly flaky, and I think it's a hardware problem rather than software. Briefly, it hangs on bootup more often than not, and goes into hibernation mode or shuts down spontaneously occasionally. I've had it for more than a decade and I'd prefer not to faff around trying to fix it so it's probably time to bite the bullet and get another.
Basically, I want a reasonably fast mini-tower PC (something like 3GHZ should be fine) with 16GB RAM, either a good built-in graphics card or room to add one, a network socket, lots of USB sockets (or room for a card with a few sockets) compatibility with older IBM keyboards (I still have an original AT keyboard and love it), and preferably a SSD drive for the boot drive, a bay for another big hard drive, and a DVD writer or space to put one in. I'm probably going to have to use Windows 11, and would want the full Pro version. I'm probably going to have to get a new scanner too, my current one is barely supported by Windows 10, but that's nowhere near as urgent.
Last time I got a Zoostorm box, but it doesn't look like they're especially good value right now. Anyone noticed any good offers recently? No urgency, I'm not going to be able to do much about this until after Easter.
Basically, I want a reasonably fast mini-tower PC (something like 3GHZ should be fine) with 16GB RAM, either a good built-in graphics card or room to add one, a network socket, lots of USB sockets (or room for a card with a few sockets) compatibility with older IBM keyboards (I still have an original AT keyboard and love it), and preferably a SSD drive for the boot drive, a bay for another big hard drive, and a DVD writer or space to put one in. I'm probably going to have to use Windows 11, and would want the full Pro version. I'm probably going to have to get a new scanner too, my current one is barely supported by Windows 10, but that's nowhere near as urgent.
Last time I got a Zoostorm box, but it doesn't look like they're especially good value right now. Anyone noticed any good offers recently? No urgency, I'm not going to be able to do much about this until after Easter.
