Renderotica

This is my otherwise uneventful birthday. I celebrated by upgrading my PC. I installed an AMD Ryzen 5 5000 CPU on a Gigabyte B550M M-board with a new MSI RTX 3050 G-card. Things went swimmingly, although I did have some trouble ensuring that the power supply cables went where they should. The first problem was, surprisingly, my Windows 10 OS. I had to activate it again. A change of hardware demands a new activation, a requirement I had encountered before but forgot. That done, to my immense satisfaction, everything worked like a charm. CPU, board, and card are all performing like champions. I was expecting to have to re-install the OS and all my software, but NO. Everything is working just as it did before the upgrades. After activation, I was sailing. Then Microsoft decided that I had to use a Microsoft Account to log in to my PC; I had to change that to a local account because that's what I wanted. Yipes! Microsoft doesn't exactly smooth the path. I think, finally, that all is as it should be. My new CPU, my new board, my new card, and the local account I want! I'm a happy camper at last!

Cheers to all. And to all a good night.

Thank you so much, casualgrapher. I'm no techie, and I'm not a nerd. Getting it all working properly was a challenge. For "challenge," read "nerve-racking." But it's done, and I'm glad it's done at last.

I will add that the MSI RTX 3050 graphics card works a treat! Visibly quicker renders than those done with the previous GTX 1650. And I'll venture to suggest that the quality is better as well.

Edited by user Thursday, October 6, 2022 3:33:50 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified