ahem. A bit off topic...
@Lord Boltar ....
.thank you for your suggestion/recommendation to find an Intel i7-6700 cpu
Given the time I had to save the necessary dollars to achieve this, I found I could upgrade the cpu to a 7th generation....namely an i7-7700......the pic below tells the story.
I am about to invest in an i7-7700 cpu and another 2 x 8gb's of ram
I did exactly that.
It was fitted yesterday, with help from a charming young guy from Armidale. (a city near to here)...he came to me and we drank coffee/tea and talked a bit of bs, but mainly concentrated on making my ailing pc young/ish again
new system specs
System:
Kernel: 5.15.0-67-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.6.7
tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 21.1 Vera base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: B150M Pro4 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: P7.30 date: 04/11/2017
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-7700 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake rev: 9 cache:
L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4200 cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800
7: 800 8: 800 bogomips: 57600
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 vendor: ASRock driver: i915 v: kernel ports:
active: DP-2,HDMI-A-2 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-3 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:5912
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 96
Monitor-1: DP-2 pos: primary,right model: Samsung S24D300 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 92
diag: 609mm (24")
Monitor-2: HDMI-2 mapped: HDMI-A-2 pos: primary,left model: Acer G246HL res: 1920x1080 dpi: 92
diag: 609mm (24")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.2.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a170
Device-2: Logitech Z Cinéma type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-8:4
chip-ID: 046d:0a0f
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-67-generic running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: ASRock driver: e1000e v: kernel port: N/A
bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15b8
IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.43 TiB used: 554.51 GiB (22.3%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 250GB size: 232.89 GiB
speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 32.9 C
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 750 EVO 120GB size: 111.79 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
serial: <filter>
ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST3300822AS size: 279.46 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s
serial: <filter>
ID-4: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD Elements 2621 size: 1.82 TiB
serial: <filter>
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 227.68 GiB used: 29.49 GiB (13.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 12.9 MiB (2.5%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 61.0 C pch: 37.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
Packages: 2388 apt: 2375 flatpak: 13
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https: //brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http: //packages.linuxmint.com vera main upstream import backport
2: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
Info:
Processes: 256 Uptime: 8m
Memory: 31.03 GiB
used: 1.54 GiB (5.0%) Init: systemd v: 249
runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.3.0 alt: 11/12 Client: Cinnamon v: 5.6.7 inxi: 3.3.13
I am more than happy with the result. More speed?....without any doubt. Less noise?...Absolutely.
So, did we manage to achieve "making my ailing pc young/ish again"??
In spades.
Mission accomplished.