SNAPE/SMOTT PE
Wait, what?
Right now, we aren't playing anything. Daughter is upset we aren't playing WoW with her. Spouse and I are getting ready to take ham technician test.
I still say that's one for the books. In all my years building and modding PCs, I've never heard of a mobo dying strictly from a BIOS update alone. Technically speaking the IC that holds the BIOS could be replaced but is probably more trouble than it's worth. Some of the newer boards today actually employ dual BIOS chips such that "bricking" isn't really a problem any longer.Unfortunately, the M/B pictured here died when I tried to update the BIOS so it now has an Athlon X2 270 and ASUS M/B thanks to a co-worker.
I still say that's one for the books. In all my years building and modding PCs, I've never heard of a mobo dying strictly from a BIOS update alone.
Yeah I looked into it, but the BIOS chip is soldered on. It's too bad too since I think the Q6600 is better than the Athlon.I still say that's one for the books. In all my years building and modding PCs, I've never heard of a mobo dying strictly from a BIOS update alone. Technically speaking the IC that holds the BIOS could be replaced but is probably more trouble than it's worth. Some of the newer boards today actually employ dual BIOS chips such that "bricking" isn't really a problem any longer.29 minutes ago, MetsFan said:
Unfortunately, the M/B pictured here died when I tried to update the BIOS so it now has an Athlon X2 270 and ASUS M/B thanks to a co-worker.
Nice to see an old 8800GT in there too! That chip design was very monumental in my opinion and gave way to some of the very early DX10 gaming.
This the old one (along with my laptop as well). Haven't decided what I want to do with it yet.That's a nice system! What is your old rig? Are you repurposing it?
Raw performance my good man! Raw performance! That drive is literally the fastest SSD on the planet presently. Though I am considering a Samsung EVO m.2 SSD as an alternative which would allow me to go with (2) video cards instead.Why would you use a 1.2 TB SSD that costs over $1k when you could put multiple smaller ones in that cost half that?
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