Building a New PC: Up and Running

Last Monday I finally got my SSD HDD and RAM installed into the computer. Thursday I installed Windows 8. I am going to try to use the new Windows 8 start menu to see how I like it. I think too many people freak out when something is different from what they are used to. It is optimized more so for a tablet but I want to give it a shot instead of just assuming it sucks.

Let me tell you, this things is fast. It boots up and is usable in less than 30 seconds. Photoshop 5.1 started up in 5 seconds. I could not stop laughing when that happened because I did not expect it to be that fast. My old computer would take a good minute or two. I have not done anything too intense with it yet but I have not had it slow down or stumble yet and that was installing Adobe along with transferring files and doing several other tasks all at the same time.

I am really excited to start messing around with video editing now that I have a computer than can handle doing it. On Tuesday I had an interview and that night I stayed at a family member’s house and went snowboarding at 7Springs all day on Wednesday since it was close. I got a few videos with my GoPro on my helmet. I completely forgot to change the flip setting and all my videos were upside down. So when I converted them I flipped them right side up. When I was converting the videos and doing other stuff on the computer I had zero problems and could not even tell performance wise that I was converting them. With my old computer I would have to have nothing running, start converting, and then come back in a while.

I did find out something that I was suspecting and it is that the multi-card reader from my old computer is not working, well at least the one slot that I need is not. So I will have to spend a few bucks and get one when I get a chance.

I am going to type up a post about looking back on how I made certain decisions and what factors I considered when building this PC. I am also hoping to post up my thoughts about Windows 8 once I spend more time with it.