Advice on resin printing

[Dave Ward]

There’s some things that can help with PCs - I used to be head of technology for a large global company BTW so this isn’t ‘bloke in the pub said…’ advice.

If your motherboard will take it and most recent ones do, buy an M.2 SSD drive, it doesn’t need to be big, 500GB is more than sufficient.

Boot from and install windows on this - just windows. Put all your other stuff, files etc on your existing hard drive. You don't even really need to remove windows from the old drive yet if you're nervous, just point to the M.2 as your boot drive and dont touch your old one, leave it connected as it is and you will still see all your existing content.

This will do 2 or 3 things - M2 is orders of magnitude faster than standard SSDs and leaves mechanical spinny disks for dead so your boot up time will reduce dramatically straight away.

But also it will allow you to flatten windows every 3 months or so (I do it about this often) very easily and quickly without affecting your other stuff.

All windows versions slow down over time and reinstalling regularly, fixes this.

All the so called tune-up stuff you can buy doesn’t do a great deal and I personally wouldn’t bother.

Do this instead. It’s far more effective.

Don’t install Norton or any of the mainstream anti virus stuff either, it’s all bloaty beyond belief and hammers your machine performance more than anything else.

Avast or AVG anti virus are probably the least impacting. You can’t uninstall Norton etc properly either by the way, it leaves hooks and junk. Either, don’t install it in the first place or re-install windows to get rid of it properly.

And yes, RAM is good, get more if you can. If you can't, again M2 works at RAM speed (more or less) so even if you are paging due to lack of memory this makes it a hell of a lot better.

These things will give you typically 20% to 40% performance boost for little or no outlay and a bit of effort.

Nick,
M2 SSD memory? my machine was updated to Windows 10 from 8 - small form factor - I can't add anything to it - it's not upgradeable in any meaningful form! It even has a DVD writer - I can't remember the last time I used that!
Dave

[nickedw]

Nick,
M2 SSD memory? my machine was updated to Windows 10 from 8 - small form factor - I can't add anything to it - it's not upgradeable in any meaningful form! It even has a DVD writer - I can't remember the last time I used that!
Dave

M.2 has been around since 2012 the same year windows 8 was introduced. M.2 slots are often the most overlooked slot people don't know they have. That said, if your machine is 10+ years old, you can't really expect it run modern CAD properly. What exactly is it, and I can check if you want.

[Dave Ward]

The machine is an Acer Revo RL80 running 64-bit Windows 10 home. It's not worth upgrading, or probably not possible. It's just the 3D software that it struggles with..............
Dave