{"id":108,"date":"2009-11-25T12:59:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T17:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communitychapelgreenville.com\/dandc.com\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2009-11-25T12:59:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T17:59:43","slug":"help-me-build-a-new-windows-7-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dandc.com\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Help me build a new Windows 7 machine &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is time to take my 4 yr old Pentium D system running Windows XP Pro and upgrade it to Windows 7 Home Premium. This is going to have to be more than an OS upgrade, I am going to have to perform a motherboard \/ cpu upgrade as well.<\/p>\n<p>I had thought that my current motherboard (don&#8217;t remember off the top of my head) would support Intel Core2 Duo processors, but it does not. That being so, I plan on dumping Intel and move [back] to AMD. I have been keeping up with Intel processors, but not AMD so I need some help choosing a good AMD processor and a matching motherboard.<\/p>\n<p>I have been using the desktop for general web surfing, Microsoft Office apps, watching Netflix, Hulu and YouTube, occasionally recording OTA TV and occasionally authoring videos\/DVDs. I do not see my needs changing much. The Pentium D has performed satisfactory, though anything involving video does stress the system.<\/p>\n<p>So help me out &#8230; what is a good general purpose AMD processor?<\/p>\n<p>[update 2009-11-27] Am thinking about this <a href=\"http:\/\/secure.newegg.com\/Shopping\/AddToCart.aspx?Submit=ADD&amp;ItemList=Combo.295699\">combo on sale at NewEgg<\/a> &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is time to take my 4 yr old Pentium D system running Windows XP Pro and upgrade it to Windows 7 Home Premium. This is going to have to be more than an OS upgrade, I am going to have to perform a motherboard \/ cpu upgrade as well. I had thought that my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":13,"label":"Technology"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Darren","author_link":"http:\/\/www.dandc.com\/?author=1"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":13,"name":"Technology","slug":"technology","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":13,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":27,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":13,"category_count":27,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Technology","category_nicename":"technology","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7GQ5E-1K","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":953,"url":"http:\/\/www.dandc.com\/?p=953","url_meta":{"origin":108,"position":0},"title":"How to install Ubuntu 21.10 on WSL for Windows 10 and 11","author":"Darren","date":"January 8, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"via WMExperts January 7, 2022 at 08:06AM The Microsoft Store doesn't have the latest version of Ubuntu for WSL, but that doesn't mean you can't install it yourself. 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