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To: goldworldnet who wrote (488)	2/21/2017 11:58:52 PM
From: nicewatch	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Respond to of 1324

The spare SSD was mounted, a two year old crucial M500 960gb, and a clean install of windows 10 was done via a usb flash drive... so far so good. I left the original drive inside and unattached for now. I do have the gpu from that link in hand and may try installing that tomorrow or Thursday, leaving the ram yet to arrive and installing the ram cooler as the last purchased parts to complete this project.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (488)	2/22/2017 12:59:19 AM
From: nicewatch	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1324

Here is a crystaldiskmark from the original drive and with the newer ssd. I noticed in device manager a few hardware drivers were not picked up in the clean install but it shouldn't be difficult to update them through the HP support site for this model.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (488)	2/22/2017 11:20:11 PM
From: nicewatch	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Respond to of 1324

Here are some more benchmarking results, before and after novabench. I confess to being ignorant of what most of these scores mean. I understand read/write and how much ssd improves that performance but I wasn't online when running tests and only comparing to my own z420. Where might your son's, or your best, or anyone's best desktop performance compare to these scores? No way this old refurb is that high even on consumer totem pole. Granted, my novabench and crystaldiskmark baselines left a lot of room for improvement! ;-) That was half the point of the project but now I'm curious what the average pc score is. On this thread, site, etc. Obviously the next thing to try after installing all the ram is to test if, in fact, this video card can smoothly run four(4) monitors at once 1080 or greater. Unfortunately I only have three 24" 1920x1200 here and difficult to use all at once but I do have a spare 42" and 70" 1080 TV mostly collecting dust!