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11 years ago
Squirrel!
I have recently thought about upgrading my PC to a DDR3 motherboard as my current one has DDR2 and a dual core 3ghz intel processor. Which really is perfectly fine for what I do however it's developed a driver problem for DVD ROM drives so they no longer work. It was the DVD ROM issue that made me think about upgrading as it appears this motherboard does not have ROM drivers for windows 7.
Anyway I went to visit mom today and one of her neighbours has all sorts of junk (mostly bicycles as he buys them from the recycling center up the road for pocket money and after servicing them sells them on) and out side his trailer was a computer tower. I just jokingly said "getting into computers now Biggles?" (his nick name) and he said "Oh that take it if you want it if it's any use to you" if not it would have ended up in the scrap pile.
To be honest at first glance it didn't look anything special, but I took the covers off at moms and found 4gb DDR3 RAM in it but had no means to test if the board worked at moms.
So, I get home, decide to plug it in after making sure all the necessary cables are connected, hit the power button and away it went! Boots to post screen fine. No hard drive though. It has a quad core AMD 3ghz processor on it too and a 750watt power supply.
So when I feel up to it and have found the Foxconn motherboard drivers for the board I'll swap over my mother boards and power supplies. My current one is, I believe, only a 500watt supply.
I don;t "need" to upgrade but now I have the parts I might as well.
Anyway I went to visit mom today and one of her neighbours has all sorts of junk (mostly bicycles as he buys them from the recycling center up the road for pocket money and after servicing them sells them on) and out side his trailer was a computer tower. I just jokingly said "getting into computers now Biggles?" (his nick name) and he said "Oh that take it if you want it if it's any use to you" if not it would have ended up in the scrap pile.
To be honest at first glance it didn't look anything special, but I took the covers off at moms and found 4gb DDR3 RAM in it but had no means to test if the board worked at moms.
So, I get home, decide to plug it in after making sure all the necessary cables are connected, hit the power button and away it went! Boots to post screen fine. No hard drive though. It has a quad core AMD 3ghz processor on it too and a 750watt power supply.
So when I feel up to it and have found the Foxconn motherboard drivers for the board I'll swap over my mother boards and power supplies. My current one is, I believe, only a 500watt supply.
I don;t "need" to upgrade but now I have the parts I might as well.
