[rescue] Hardware failure

[Phil Stracchino]

Phil Brutsche wrote:
> Pshaw, Socket 754 and Socket 939 are passe; Socket AM2 is a 940-pin
> socket designed for DDR2.  *All* new consumer-oriented setups will be
> AM2 in the next 6 months.

o/" Meet the new bus, same as the old bus .... o/"

> Socket 754 and Socket 939 non-Opteron CPUs are almost totally gone from
> the retail markets (but they'll live long on eBay), and (non-server)
> motherboards will follow shortly.

Kinda sucks, really.  It makes it a much bigger economic proposition to
upgrade.


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