On Thursday, June 19, 2014 11:30:57 AM UTC-4, Terry Coombs wrote:
wrote:

On Thursday, June 19, 2014 9:09:01 AM UTC-4, Karl Townsend wrote:

I'm looking for a new motherboard and haven't really kept up with

computer technology for several years now.

If I can re-use the CPU, I will save the cost of this part PLUS

greedy



greedy M$oft won't make me pay for ANOTHER win 7 OS disk. I don't

want



to reuse it if I'm being penny wise and pound foolish.



I deal mostly with high voltage circuitry/devices, but I did see this

in yahoo answers, recently. It seems pretty urgent. I think you

should read it.





Reusing a "CPU...You won't find a current motherboard to accept it"



"OK first, NEVER reuse a power supply. I don't care if the power

supply is 6 months old. Good power supplies last about 5 years

maximum, usually. AVERAGE quality power supplies will go 2-3 years if

you are lucky. And when they die (not if, WHEN) they have a nasty

habit of destroying other components.

Always use a good quality BRAND NEW power supply for a new

build...or even a major upgrade!



If your computer is more than a year old, you might be able to reuse

some disk drives. And yes, if your case is good quality, you can

probably reuse that.



For the most part though, if your system is more than a few years

old it's better to start over from scratch.



Case...cheap enough, do you really want to keep the old one?

Power supply...NEVER use the old one

Motherboard...won't be compatible with well, anything you want to

use.

CPU...You won't find a current motherboard to accept it

RAM...You won't find a current motherboard to accept it. If you do

find that motherboard, you do not want to buy it.

Video card...Might not fit current motherboards, but is terribly

outdated anyway. Get rid of it.

Hard Drive...will slow down your new hardware, UNLESS the hard drive

is much newer than the rest of your current system

Optical drive...yeah, you could reuse it. but 5-7 years old? That's

got to be close to the end of its useful life anyway (replace it for

like 17 bucks)



Basically, start over from nothing.



Another reason you want to replace EVERY component is quite simple...



Whenever you are building a new system, you want to have a COMPLETE,

working system handy...in case you need to hop on the web to research

something during the build process. "



-- https://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...7150523AABz3nK



(in other words, everything is now designed to become obsolete too

quickly for reuse)



IMO much of what you just said is bull****.

Whoa!! Terry, my, myyy !! That's a pretty heavy-hitting comment coming from a master cabinet maker (dont'cha think?)

MB's are available all over

the place for AM3 /quad core processors , and DDR3 RAM is still currewnt

technology . I do agree with replacing the optical drive and power supply

though . Keep the old ones as backups ...

And Karl , you should be able to use the same Win7 license in a new build

. Might have to call M$ to activate it , I've had to do that when re-using

XP licenses .

None of this addresses modern motherboards

Snag