Hello All,
I am not that good at desktop hardware and almost zero in laptop disassembling. My all hardware experiences were swapping RAM sticks , replacing old HDD's(Probably IDE's) with one another and a few DVD writers. Now my laptop is dead and I've told me that the motherboard crashed and it is not worthy to replace and I replaced it with one.
Now the only part I could reuse out of my once a favorite machine was the HDD.
And I am now purely looking to get my hands dirty on hardware by doing stuff here as my laptop is already dead .
I think the processor is good in it and i am looking whether I could buy a cheaper motherboard and use it to have my machine run and learn something useful.
I would not be disturbed by its performance and by that I mean I don't need an expensive updated motherboard. I just need one which is compatible and to see it work.
Is that a good idea? Or could I use the processor in a desktop. I have a couple of old cpu's
(P4 days!) sitting idle which I think are not compatible with an i3 2nd gen processor(If laptop processor's are really supported in a desktop motherboard). Or I could buy a desktop motherboard put the processor in, use the old HDD's and RAM sticks and play around.
Which of these makes some sense? I am again mentioning that I am doing this out of pure curiosity spending more bucks on a dead machine and i don't expect the machine for more than spreadsheets and firefox.
I am not that good at desktop hardware and almost zero in laptop disassembling. My all hardware experiences were swapping RAM sticks , replacing old HDD's(Probably IDE's) with one another and a few DVD writers. Now my laptop is dead and I've told me that the motherboard crashed and it is not worthy to replace and I replaced it with one.
Now the only part I could reuse out of my once a favorite machine was the HDD.
And I am now purely looking to get my hands dirty on hardware by doing stuff here as my laptop is already dead .
I think the processor is good in it and i am looking whether I could buy a cheaper motherboard and use it to have my machine run and learn something useful.
I would not be disturbed by its performance and by that I mean I don't need an expensive updated motherboard. I just need one which is compatible and to see it work.
Is that a good idea? Or could I use the processor in a desktop. I have a couple of old cpu's
(P4 days!) sitting idle which I think are not compatible with an i3 2nd gen processor(If laptop processor's are really supported in a desktop motherboard). Or I could buy a desktop motherboard put the processor in, use the old HDD's and RAM sticks and play around.
Which of these makes some sense? I am again mentioning that I am doing this out of pure curiosity spending more bucks on a dead machine and i don't expect the machine for more than spreadsheets and firefox.
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