Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago"You should probably just throw it away"poptalk.scrubbles.techimagemessage-square341fedilinkarrow-up1192arrow-down14
arrow-up1188arrow-down1image"You should probably just throw it away"poptalk.scrubbles.techScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square341fedilink
minus-squaregrooving@lemmy.studiolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoThe only thing turning. To waste is the motherboard right? It sucks, but throw out a whole computer because of a motherboard is a wacky move.
minus-squaresepiroth154@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 month agoWell if you have to throw out the motherboard, there’s a high chance you have to replace the cpu too.
minus-squarechicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoMight also be ram compatibility problems
minus-squareSmc87@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThe only thing turning to waste is the OS. You can still use anything else fine.
minus-squareWolfLink@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoThat’s assuming the user knows that and didn’t just buy a prebuilt tower from Costco, and that it isn’t a laptop or something where changing the motherboard is much harder if not impossible.
minus-squaregrooving@lemmy.studiolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoYeah true. Also finding a new motherboard that still works with your outdated ram type would be annoying research to have to do.
The only thing turning. To waste is the motherboard right? It sucks, but throw out a whole computer because of a motherboard is a wacky move.
Well if you have to throw out the motherboard, there’s a high chance you have to replace the cpu too.
Might also be ram compatibility problems
The only thing turning to waste is the OS. You can still use anything else fine.
That’s assuming the user knows that and didn’t just buy a prebuilt tower from Costco, and that it isn’t a laptop or something where changing the motherboard is much harder if not impossible.
Yeah true. Also finding a new motherboard that still works with your outdated ram type would be annoying research to have to do.