Hi.

My Win10 machine is nearly built
Sadly not by my Son in Law. He just hasn't been able to make the time. [He's still a key worker and still having to put in many hours.]
However, he will be fitting it into the 3 machine setup I have and retiring my (still fantastic and fully working) Win98SE for me.
And happily the builder of the Win10 has at least been approved by him

So for those techies who might be interested, the specs I know of so far are :

Asus PRIME H570-PLUS, Intel H570, 1200, ATX, 4 DDR4, HDMI, DP, RGB, 2x M.2
Intel Core i5-11400 CPU, 1200, 2.6 GHz (4.4 Turbo), 6-Core, 65W, 14nm, 12MB Cache, Rocket Lake
16GB DDR 4 Kingston hyper X Memory
Kingston 960GB SSDNow A400 SSD, 2.5", SATA3, R/W 500/450 MB/s, 7mm
Riotoro CR400 Gaming Case with Window, ATX, No PSU, Mesh Front, 2 x 12cm Fans (Red LED Front Fan), USB 3.0
Be Quiet! 500W System Power 9 PSU, 80+ Bronze, Dual 12V, Cont. Power
Windows 10 PRO .... latest windows SP
PciE wireless card 300MB
MSI NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING X Graphics Card '6GB GDDR6, 1830Hz, RGB Mystic Light, 3x DisplayPort, HDMI, Dual Fan Cooling System

I hardly know myself what any of them are but hope I can control this machine when I get it !!

Cheers.

Mad

Very, very nice gaming computer! You're especially going to like that Solid State drive! I don't know if I could go back to a pokey slow HDD any more. I love your case too!

It looks great to me, Mad! A nice amount of memory on the video card, too.

I don't know what any of it is but it sounds good Mad.

Not to be a downer on the Solid State drive, but I don't get the big deal. Mine seems slower and for sure I would never know the difference what kind of drive was in there.

I had an SSD in my Win7 when it was first built but although splendidly fast it just wasn't big enough and I got it swapped out.

I don't think I'll have that problem though this time 😑

Awesome Mad!! Congrats!

When I REALLY notice the slow HDDs is when I go to work on other people's computers. Sometimes it's a combination of factors, but the HDD just magnifies. I find it painful!

I can't tell the difference from my Win 10 with SSD and my Win 7 with HDD .

Congrats Mad.

Thanks, all, for the positive comments

Congratulations, Mad. New computers are fun.

Good for you, Mad. Hope it brings lots of joy and fun

Again, thank you

It's nearly finished now. Just hope I don't blow it up as soon as I try to use it

You're going to be fine Mad and you probably won't hate Windows 10 as much as you think you will!

We'll see, oldbroad. I'm a proper stick in the mud about many things

oh my retiring Win98SE ... oh the memories

It will be retiring with an unblemished record - and still in perfect working order - after 23 years and three months of practically daily use, soot !!

( And I am really sad about losing it but I simply can't fit FOUR machines in my setup )

You don't have to retire your Win 98 machine, you could combine (Dual Boot) your W98 and WinXP together, that is what I did with my friend's machine and he is a Happy Camper.

PS: Congrats on your New Beast of a machine.

Well, I would still try to find a place for it to be usable on it's own, independent of the others.

My current XP machine WAS once a 98SE/XP dual boot, Starcom, but locating compatible parts when I wanted to upgrade the XP side proved difficult, so eventually I had the 98 taken off - carried on with my original 98SE - and just upgraded the XP

(How I will cope with my new Win10 is something I'm not thinking too deeply about )

EDIT :

I feel three machines is enough, really, oldbroad, and I do have tweaked modern versions of a lot of my older Win98 games so I'm not losing out too much on the game angle

Hee Hee !!

My Win10 machine is now here with me and is up and running.
[Not networked with Win7 and WinXP yet but IS linked to them by the KVM.]

So Now I'm happily fiddling and investigating "what's what" with it - and fervently hoping I won't wreck anything

You won't hurt anything! Have fun exploring and holler at me if you have any questions! I can do Windows 10 in my sleep!

I'm sure your SIL will know how to network them without allowing either Windows 7 or XP to expose your Windows 10 to malware on the internet.

Have fun exploring Mad ... sounds like a very neat system

I have a KVM switch at work for my different systems

Have fun Mad!

Thanks, all

And yes, Draclvr, my SIL can certainly deal with the networking. It's just that on this latest visit he ran out of time - so it will be done on his next.

But I'll certainly shout out any questions I might have in the meantime, thank you

Yay! Enjoy, Mad!!

BrownEyedTigre

I've surprised myself by how well I'm actually coping !!

So Mad, it's been a few weeks now. How are you liking your new computer and Windows 10?

I'm actually only using it now and then, oldbroad, because my Son in Law has still not fully finished sorting the KVM or Networking to his satisfaction.
(The "time" thing.)
But I AM gradually getting to grips with Win10 - even if only to deal with Mail and using the internet 😁

Excellent! Only way to learn it is to use it!

I rarely use the Windows 10 email. Don't like it. Don't like any email other than my MSN mail app. I just can never figure out how to really use any other ones. I've tried but end up too frustrated. The other day I was trying to use Outlook to send an email but the address wouldn't pop up (like it would in my MSN) so I finally found the address book but then couldn't get back to the email to put the address in it. Ended up opening my MSN app which I had been trying to avoid.

Seems like you must be doing alright with it all so far. You haven't posted for any help.

There really isn't a Windows 10 email. If you have Outlook, you must have Office installed on your computer. I agree that Outlook takes some getting used to, but I persevered and am like you with it it now! I don't want to learn a new one!

There is some kind of mail that came with Windows 10. I have an icon in my task bar for it and it is not something I put there. It seems to be connected with Edge I guess. Maybe it is the unpaid Outlook. It just says "mail" when you hover over it.

In addition to that, I do have Outlook installed as well as my MSN.

I used Outlook Express for years and then moved on to Outlook and have stayed with it.

(I did try Thunderbird for a while but then ditched that 😑)

If the icon looks like an envelope, that's the Mail app. It is used to add your existing email accounts in order to manage them from one place. You would have had to set up an Outlook.com (the free web-based email) account. And, no it's not connected with Edge. I use the Mail app to monitor a BUNCH of email accounts for out American Legion post. I also have a Gmail email account and an Outlook.com account that are mine that I monitor. I also monitor hubby's Gmail account there. I like it because it shows me at a glance if emails have arrived.

This is a pretty good description of the Mail app. Note that is says existing.

That's the one and I don't care if it's "existing" or however they want to word it. To me, it came with Windows 10 so it is Windows 10 email. Whatever you call it, I don't like it and only open it so I can shut it again because it does show incoming mails down in my task bar, although not always. Only on some days it shows them and some days it doesn't and I don't understand that!

I'm obviously not explaining this well. No, the Mail app is not existing! It SYNCS existing email accounts and nothing more! It is not an email program itself. What email account do you have associated with it? It will tell you on the left side.

This is a screen grab of all the email accounts I use the Mail app to sync so I can see if mail came in or not.

I know exactly what you're saying Drac, but it is still an email app program that came with Windows 10 and is not easy or good enough for me to ever want to use it to send emails out of (or really to read incoming emails on either).

The part I was saying I didn't understand about was why some days that envelope in my task bar shows me I have emails and some days it doesn't show me even though I do have email everyday.

And I would think you don't really want all your email addresses showing there in that screenshot??

I know... I thought of that. But they are all public anyway! Just wanted to demonstrate that the Mail app is not an email program. It is an app to manage all your email accounts. Now that I've done that, I'll probably delete it. But as I said, they are all public anyway. I just didn't want anyone else to get the wrong idea about what the Mail app is for because it is not an email program.

I've found that number thingie to be useless. What I would suggest you do if you don't want to use the Mail app is to delete whatever email account is associated with it. To do that, just click on the gear thingie on the bottom, then click on Manage Accounts. Click on the account you want to remove from the Mail app and then follow the prompts on the next screen.

Drac, not to keep harping on this but, if I can send and receive and manage my emails in there, to me, that is an email program. Since my MSN app is the same thing, apparently I don't have ANY email "program". That may not be the correct terminology but you should know by now that I am not computer literate, am digitally challenged, and don't have the biggest vocabulary. I say that, not to put myself down, but to state the facts.

I get it! But, nope! It's not an email program all by itself. If you didn't have your email account associated with it, it would just sit there like a lump. But that's OK. I just don't want someone else to think it is. Terminology can be important. If you like it, just keep using it! It's far from perfect, but when you need to monitor a lot of emails from different programs like I do, it's a very handy app.

Key words in that sentence were "to me"!

As I said, I get it "for you!" Just need to make sure there is no misinformation for someone else!

And if you ever figure out that number thing, let me know!