Transferring from Old Build

Redarmy · January 30, 2019

Going to be upgrading from my 4690k & 970 on Win7 to a 8700k & 2080 Win10.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/J8C2GG Rough idea on what I'm getting, exact RAM and cooler might change.

Anyways, this is going to be the first time I've ever upgraded without my current system dying so, what tips do people have on migrating over data? I plan on buying a new HDD for a backup storage of media files mostly and then wiping all of my current drives clean to reuse them for the new build. How should I go about making the transition to a new system as painless as possible?

Side note - Is Win10 as bad as basically everyone makes it out to be?

Taf the Ghost · January 30, 2019

2 minutes ago, Redarmy said:

Going to be upgrading from my 4690k & 970 on Win7 to a 8700k & 2080 Win10.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/J8C2GG Rough idea on what I'm getting, exact RAM and cooler might change.

Anyways, this is going to be the first time I've ever upgraded without my current system dying so, what tips do people have on migrating over data? I plan on buying a new HDD for a backup storage of media files mostly and then wiping all of my current drives clean to reuse them for the new build. How should I go about making the transition to a new system as painless as possible?

Side note - Is Win10 as bad as basically everyone makes it out to be?

Win10 is fine, though keeping MS' data collection addiction under control is an issue. And you might want to think about limiting the Auto-updates.

Would generally suggest a fresh install on a new storage device, since this system is a little old. What SSDs are you rocking as your primary boot drive?

No real need for 32 Gb of memory, go with 16 Gb and at least 3200 speed.

Redarmy · January 30, 2019

I have a 256 Sandisk SSD as my boot drive. Haven't really moved too much data on and off of it so I think it should be fine. I was kind of thinking of getting a NVMe though, depends if I can squeeze one in budget wise or not really.

Is there any program I can run that will test or look at the health of an SSD?

One of the games I play (Squad) is kind of notorious for being a RAM hog. Taking up at times 14-15GBs. There's been times where I had to kill basically all other processes just to start the game up currently. Plus I'm kind of a tab hoarder and well you can see how much Firefox takes up for me right now.