Sunday, August 20, 2006

Best way to upgrade?

...break your current PC.

For the record, I was not looking for porn when I discovered this article.

I have been looking for a new motherboard, since mine got fried last night while I was installing my new video card. Bad news is that my new video card was an AGP 8X to go with my motherboard. Now that I need a new mobo I am kind of stuck getting an AGP8x one instead of upgrading to PCI-Express, unless I want to sell my new videocard and buy an even more expensive one, PCI-E flavor.

I guess it will save me money in the long run. In the meantime, here is a pretty good link explaining just what, exactly, is going on inside your PC.

I'm using this post as a bookmark so I can find this again, since I am posting this from Paulie's PC across town.

5 comments:

  1. That sucks. How did you fry it? What happened?

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  2. I think you were looking for porn and this is a poor excuse just like everything else on your blog as an excuse.

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  3. Anonymous10:41 AM

    ...and chatting with your best friends (with benefits of course).

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  4. I fried it by being a dumbass, or so I thought. My flat panel monitor digital video cable has power running through it. When I went to plug it into the PC, it was plugged in. I think I touched it to the PC case before I connected it to the video port on the new card. I saw a small spark and that was the end of my trusty ASUS A7N8X deluxe.

    I ordered a new chip yesterday (2.4 Ghz) so here comes the upgrade.

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