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Did a quick bit of checking....
CPU/Core i3-12100F £84.99
8GB DDR4 RAM 3200MHz £67.00
Intel CPU Cooler £12.32
Gigabyte H610M motherboard £65.64
Total: £229.99
That makes the second hand board incl. RAM for £75 seem like a good deal - and it's all passed a very thorough burn-in period.
I'll keep an eye on CPU temperature to decide whether to replace the thermal paste but, as is, why disturb it.
BTW: I couldn't just buy a cheap NUC-type thing as there's 4 x 6TB HDDs in the current case.
It's the end of an era. A house power outage killed this dusty motherboard which had been running in a Linux (Debian) server nearly non-stop since 2011. The CPU is a Q6600 (Core 2 Quad) + 4GB DDR2 RAM.
The replacement is an i3-9100 board + 8GB RAM for £75 off Ebay; so the server's caught up to 2019!
The board change was mostly easy. The main issue needed booting from USB to fix the IDs for the 2 x RAID 1 arrays as they'd changed and confused the boot process. Glad I wasn't running Windows!
Oh no, Sugar Bear is in danger!
If you use “AI” image generation to create an ad for your business that includes home electrical wiring, maybe check to see if your spokes-bear is about to kill itself.
Sycophancy (Noun):
When you just want the plain version of something.
So the BBC news at 1700 starts with 22 minutes of waiting for the PSG players to show their faces, alternated with reports about Arsenal's parade. I'm up for a bit of sports news covering major events but, seriously, with all that's going on in the world right now this is best the Beeb editorial team can do?
/Rant over
Your turn.
Punchline: Trackballs
What's the joke?
What's the proper name for that wishy-washy brownish-yellow colour that doesn't scream 'vibrant' at you?
Oh, yeah: Mediochre.
/Autocorrect fought me all the way, there.
Zack Stern