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I got my computer back tonight. It's smokin' hot! Of course, it should be, since it had the equivalent of a heart-lung-liver transplant.
Turns out that the motherboard was bad. And the only motherboard they had that would fit my processor (which I had purchased at the latter part of 2005) was very expensive. So I was willing to upgrade the processor, too, because things had been running so slow.
But then, the video card (which was grandfathered into my new computer, but was a mid 2005 purchase) was the limiting factor, because it would only work with a few motherboards.
So what is a girl to do when her computer is down, and she wants it, nay, needs it to run faster, better, stronger?
I replaced them all. Motherboard, processor (up to a Intel Dual Core from an AMD), and video card. So I should be able to do just about anything (according to them) - play any game I want (although I'm not a gamer, but I want to try Second Life), rip DVD's while doing graphics... we'll see how it does.
But so far, so good!
Turns out that the motherboard was bad. And the only motherboard they had that would fit my processor (which I had purchased at the latter part of 2005) was very expensive. So I was willing to upgrade the processor, too, because things had been running so slow.
But then, the video card (which was grandfathered into my new computer, but was a mid 2005 purchase) was the limiting factor, because it would only work with a few motherboards.
So what is a girl to do when her computer is down, and she wants it, nay, needs it to run faster, better, stronger?
I replaced them all. Motherboard, processor (up to a Intel Dual Core from an AMD), and video card. So I should be able to do just about anything (according to them) - play any game I want (although I'm not a gamer, but I want to try Second Life), rip DVD's while doing graphics... we'll see how it does.
But so far, so good!
