Does somebody use both, current Intel and AMD tower PCs?

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Sun Mar 19 23:10:42 UTC 2023


On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 at 21:36, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> I shy away from putting a new CPU on an old mobo. If I needed a new CPU
> the mobo and PSU are aged. IMO it's better to replace an aged mobo and
> an aged PSU when buying a new CPU. Soon or later some controller on the
> mobo might fail or the fan of the PSU might make noise. Unfortunately,
> this procedure also requires replacing the RAM.

Oddly, I did it a lot in the 80486 era and early Pentium 1 era.

Now, no. But it's perfectly doable. Not usually as much benefit as
you'd expect though if all else remains the same.

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