Comments on Profile Post by Thad E Ginathom

  1. Lyander
    Lyander
    Bother. Hope you manage to score good parts on the cheap! Seems like even older components are being priced to ludicrous heights nowadays.
    Mar 19, 2021
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  2. Cryptowolf
    Cryptowolf
    Power supply fail?
    Mar 19, 2021
  3. Jinxy245
    Jinxy245
    Ouch...good luck with Franken-puter.
    Mar 19, 2021
  4. Thad E Ginathom
    Thad E Ginathom
    The temperature's Ryzen;
    It isn't surprisin';
    It certainly can, can-can.

    Motherboard failure. It was ten years old and... from a Phenom 2 to a Ryzen 9, the difference is astonishing. It roars!

    And no, the good parts were not cheap. It was a very expensive upgrade :/
    Mar 20, 2021
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  5. Cryptowolf
    Cryptowolf
    Ouch. A MB failure is never good.
    Mar 20, 2021
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  6. Lyander
    Lyander
    Quite the leap, but yeah 10 years seems a damned good run for a motherboard from what I can tell; it's usually the PSUs that last so long, no?

    Either way hope the new machine works well!
    Mar 20, 2021
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  7. Thad E Ginathom
    Thad E Ginathom
    I am on my second PSU. And the case and PSU have been kept, along with hard disks etc. Just the guts transplanted.

    It's giving me some problems making everything work with Linux, especially setting up a new ssd as a boot device. Won't work. Fine... does everything so much faster, including booting, even from an hdd. So I'll just use the ssd for pics.

    On the whole, it is *very* nice!
    Mar 21, 2021
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