Q/A Why Is it Two Hands are better to grip your Butt Cheeks

When it's not apparently enough to just to backup data, in the event
of hardware failure, two computers are better than one.

I replaced my blown-up computer. The power company replaced their
Pole Pig. We are both sad victims of lightning.

My cost is now $120 for new CPU, MEM, & MB. Less than $75 an hour,
each, for two extra big guys to climb up a pole and replace a Green
Pig in about two to three hours. I guess. About how long I was out
for a hot drink in a breezy location for open doors and air
conditioning. Just in time to say thanks and bye when I got back and
they were finishing up.

I don't know categorically if the lightning strike cooked both the CPU
and MB. That it doesn't POST after a PS and single stack mem-bank
swap is enough.

It's not worth my time to dick around with the old Intel MB and
Intel's LGA pin arrangement. At least for the time being. I may have
a spare good Intel for that particular socket at some later point to
test.

The above old DDR2 800 memory is also too ancient, although I'd bet
more or less an available used Ebay item. I doubt I've any of that
stuff for spares, but could be wrong. If a CPU swap doesn't get it,
I'm not sinking any more time parts and money in it.

I went to straight rank-&-file AMD Phenom pins. DDR3 1600MHz
(PC3-12800) is pretty much nominally priced these days. The old CPU
cooler is of the great-butted variant among Thermaltake monstrosities,
and will salvage just fine.

AMD Phenom II X4 805 2500MHz 512KBx4 4MB Deneb 45nm C2 95W 4000 F3
Price is comparable to Ebay, or nobody's giving away Phenom quads at
sub-$20, mistakenly for Athlon II Socket AMD3's.

For the extra $120 I spent, I think I can do a whole hell of a lot
better than what I'm running now -- that being a socket AMD2 MB. It's
OK for an old computer, never severely brain-bludgeoned by lightning.
Not exactly quite a clunker, but it does have the miles. Nor does
reasonable and better have to equate to only balls-out searing speed.
I've already got another 4GHz computer, and that's not all of it.