And on a compeltely piss-me-off note...

[wolfwings]

...my motherboard just crapped out.

I just got a $300 paycheck.

I can either:

Get a really nice video card AND memory upgrade, and downgrade to a single-CPU system

or

Get back up a dual-CPU system with a crappy video card (my Kyro bit the dust as well recently) and barely enough memory to make the system happy.

Unfortunately, as big a proponent of SMP as I am, up there with arcturax, I'm afraid I'm slipping back down to the realm of single-CPUism.

And on that note... anyone want a known-good working 1.4Ghz/1600 Athlon MP CPU? It'll work fine in a single-CPU Athlon-XP-type system. Make me an offer! (714)539-6547

I'd honestly rather sell it today and turn that around to more hardware since I'm going shopping anyways. As a note, PriceWatch lists OEM Athlon MP 1600's as selling for $115, and OEM XP 1600's as selling for $53, so I'll part with the known-good MP 1600, retail from a box w/ AMD fan (though I lack the box now) for $50-75, depending on if I need to ship it to you, or you can come pick it up!

Comments

[lionman.livejournal.com]

Well, that certainly sucks rocks.

The system board in my Athlon TBird 950 went belly up some time ago too, and I still haven't replaced it. I'm using work laptops and my old P5/233MMX. :-

[love-hate-rape.livejournal.com]

Why don't you save it?

Well. for a good reason. =^.^=

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

If it put me over the top to buy, say, a higher-end video card than I could otherwise, I'd get more performance from having that, and one less CPU, than I could with one CPU, one spare CPU, and the lower-end video card.

As is... I found out something ELSE to test on the board, and replaced the power supply and fixed the board instead. So... $130 video card, $60 power supply, dual-CPU system still. =^.^=