[GTALUG] New Build Computer?

[Peter King]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 01:26:55PM -0400, James Knott via talk wrote:
 
> If it's just the mom board, why not replace it, assuming the rest of the
> computer isn't too ancient.  I bet the same shop where it's in for repair
> could do it.
> 
> My computer is in the same case I bought about 15 years ago and has seen 3 -
> 4 motherboards.  The only issue is that my DVD drives are still IDE, while
> the motherboard is SATA, so I had to buy an IDE interface for it.

I haven't had any luck in finding motherboards that would take the old CPU,
RAM, and so on, but your story is inspirational.  The case is a CoolerMaster
with lots of space in it, and it would be nice to be able to keep it.

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