So, my work machine was getting long in the tooth. Occasionally not booting and requiring me to jiggle memory sticks or tighten CPU cooler screws. It was a DDR3 machine with a Xeon E3 1230V2 with 8gb of RAM (and oddly enough an RTX 2060.) The fans were getting pretty loud, too.

I had a Ryzen 2600x and 16gb of DD4 from my home PC lying around, so I bought a cheap mainboard, tore the old one out of the case, attached all the hardware to the new mainboard - including the SSD with Mint installed - and BOOM! It booted first try without issue. Even going from Intel to AMD, DDR3 to DDR4. My mind is blown!

I can’t imagine how borked my machine would have been if I’d tried that with Windows.

Now, what do I do with a still-working Xeon and mainboard?!?

  • Underwaterbob@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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    9 months ago

    This also deserves consideration. More eco-friendly, and it gives me a chance to practice my desoldering skills.

      • Underwaterbob@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Do I need a mold or something? Can I just buy a tube of resin and use a cup I don’t care about?

        • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          8 months ago

          I think its probably harder than that but I don’t know much. I do know you will need to get rid of the air bubbles some how. I’ve scene people use a vacuum pump for that but you got to get the timing right.

          Its tricky but it would be so cool to have a CPU in resin.