I happen to have a homebrew PC on my desktop:
Looks cool, but was beginning to seriously feel its age. (It would slow down if you put a Vista install disk in the same room.) So I bought a new motherboard and and chip for it.
Here were prepping for surgery:
Opening up the patient:
The old motherboard (note the size of the cpu fan/heatsink on the lower right):
Meet the new sheriff in town (cpu fan/heatsink upper left. It’s the size of my head!):
The new board in place. (Booted up first try.):
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michelle · March 26, 2009 at 8:28 am
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