{"id":99,"date":"2009-11-08T20:26:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T19:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jgt.me.uk\/?p=99"},"modified":"2009-11-08T20:26:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T19:26:39","slug":"upgraded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jgt.me.uk\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Upgraded!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, a week or so ago I decided to upgrade the web server box. The shuttle PC was becoming unstable and I decided that I can visualise the programming box if I built a beefy enough computer.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, I&#8217;ve purchased a quick machine based upon the Intel i7 processor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jgt.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/PC-Build-002a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-145 alignnone\" title=\"Intel i7 Processor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jgt.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/PC-Build-002a.jpg\" alt=\"Intel i7 Processor\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Setting up was reasonably painless, even with a bit of head-scratching to do with the heatsink. The most noticable thing about theis processor is that it uses &#8216;pads&#8217; rather than &#8216;pins&#8217; &#8211; the pins are on the motherboard instead.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, Windows 7 is now installed on this machine\u00a0 and there&#8217;s 8 processors showing up in task manager!<\/p>\n<p>So far, I&#8217;ve had <a title=\"Vuze\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vuze.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vuze<\/a> running and have installed World of Warcraft. When both are running together the processor utilisation barely peaks over 40%!<\/p>\n<p>Overall I&#8217;m impressed so far with this machine and the Windows 7 install and utility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, a week or so ago I decided to upgrade the web server box. The shuttle PC was becoming unstable and I decided that I can visualise the programming box if I built a beefy enough computer. To that end, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jgt.me.uk\/?p=99\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Upgraded!<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,19,25,32,33,34],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc-building","tag-i7","tag-intel","tag-pc","tag-win7","tag-windows-7","tag-world-of-warcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jgt.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jgt.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jgt.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jgt.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jgt.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jgt.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jgt.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jgt.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jgt.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}