Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa 64-bit Running On Same Hardware in 2017

I looked back on my blog here and I started using this machine in 2012.  That's around 5 years on this hardware configuration.  In the past, that was never possible.  Upgrading Linux has worked well on this system.  Of course, all my Windows machines have had to change with those upgrades, or get stuck on a prior OS if they aren't able to keep up.


For nearly the same price, these days as my 6, an 8-core AMD CPU is available.  RAM was $50 at the time I put this together and it's 8gb.  Now for only around $20 more, you can get 16gb.  It's great to see the system statistics for the amount of ram in use, as well as cpu usage.

I didn't think I was going to be needing this much power, now I do.  I am running virtual guests and rendering using Blender.  These use up a lot of this horsepower and I'm really glad I have it now.

Here it is running 2 guests with nice amount of ram for each and the cpu is not working hard, and the fan isn't loud so no heat generated yet.  Booting the guests, however does take more effort, but still not as much as I would expect.

Blender rendering does peg the cpu.  I uploaded test videos to YouTube just to see how it works and I'm using Blender for the editing, it's cool but has a learning curve.

Happy New Year 2017!