[rescue] Hardware failure

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Sat, 15 Jul 2006 @ 22:47 -0400, Phil Stracchino said:

> 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.

newegg is still selling a lot of socket 754 stuff.

You can also get the nVidia 7600 and 7800 graphics cards on AGP now.

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