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Nicholas Thomas wrote: > On Thursday 27 November 2008 19:14:53 Rob Beard wrote: > >> alex mclennan wrote: >> >>> hi all,i just been reading all the messages,how cool is it that a guy >>> 300+miles away can ask for help and almost instantly gets it,this should >>> be printed in the newspapers,it restores ones faith in human kindness. >>> alex the noob >>> >> Yep, I bet the Windows community wouldn't be so quick to help ;-) >> >> Now has anyone near Torbay got a Phenom compatible AM2/AM2+ motherboard >> by any chance? >> >> If so, would they be willing to help me test my chip/motherboard? :-) >> >> (My other motherboards are Intel or AMD Socket A) >> >> Ta, >> >> Rob >> > > One of the reasons I <3 linux so much is the community :) - well, that and the > fact that it's responsible for my current job existing :D. Mind you, it can > get hairy on IRC sometimes. Mailing lists are best :). > > Yep, I often pass the time just reading the Devon & Cornwall LUG & Ubuntu UK mailing lists (for research purposes of course ;-) > Memories about my sister's PC are coming back to me, and I'm now reasonably > sure it's a socket 754 sempron64 (they didn't make many of those!) with no > SATA. Now, I do have an AM2 motherboard (ECS thingy) with an X2 CPU (3800+? no > heatsink or fan - I butchered that recently to stop my hard drives from > overheating) sat right in front of me, which I'd be happy to post down to you > for keeps? I can get bundles of such things from aforementioned work, so I > really don't need it. Actually, I've been eyeing up a 5000+ X2 that's sat > around doing nothing there... :D. > > That would be great, I've RMA'd the board with MSI. It's not even a year old but since I've passed on my Pentium Dual Core to my other half I'm a bit stuck. I have a spare AMD CPU cooler (from the Phenom) kicking around. It's just annoying when these things go wrong. I had a similar problem with my old Athlon 64 a couple of years back. I had a stack of Socket A or Socket 478 board but no Socket 754 boards. > Whether I could get away with the extra heat load is entirely another > question, though. ISTR heat output increases with the cube of the MHz? I'm > already running dangerously close to the edge... > Well I found one solution is to stick a couple of big fans in there. My main PC however hasn't had the side on it for going on 3 months and it's got a nice sheet of fluff in the bottom of it. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html