newputer i have what is effectively a brand new computer. i replaced the motherboard and cpu in my old computer. i'm big on hitting that sweet spot. where you can spend a lot more and get a little more. and you can spend a little less and get a lot less. so i stuck with amd. teardown went fine. i took pictures of where all the wires went. turned out i didn't need them. but it still seems like a good idea. the only hitch was the bolts holding the liquid cooling radiator to the chassis fan were stripped. vice grips. heh. re-assembly went fine. took a trip to fry's to get thermal paste, a mounting rack for the new ssd, and to look for replacement bolts. since it was a trip to fry's, and b tagged along, we got a bunch of other stuff. like mice (one for me and one for him), backup hard drive (for him), power strips (for me. the main power switch on my computer stack suffered an unscheduled catastrophic mechanical fail.). fry's didn't have the bolts. that took a second trip to home depot and oddly, orchard supply. one of the seats in the radiator was stripped. so the chassis fan/radiator combo is held in by three bolts. oh well. i needed some help hooking up the cables for the front panel. had to consult the manual. cause the motherboard wasn't labeled. weird. fortunately the cables were. the connector for the hdd light for the old mother board looks like this 000. but the new looks like this 00. so needless to say, it's not connected. other than that, it seems to just work. i installed centos on the ssd. three times. the first two times were minimal installations cause the full install wouldn't fit on my ancient micro dvds. the live cd got the job done. the nouveau drivers crashed a lot when trying to arrange my three portrait monitors. but several reboots eventually got the job done. i replaced them with the nvidia drivers. and that little problem went away. should have done it first. it took a while to install all the dev software i need for work. which is ubuntu based. translating apt-get package names to yum package names is a chore. but i got it done. 12 hours start to finish. course i took a break to grill a tri-tip for memorial day. montreal seasoning and lemon juice. 15ish minutes. flip once. 58C. rest 10 minutes. yum!  ¶ 8:00 AM