The quest begins. (LGA 775 INTEL)
Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P Opening the package, my heart begins to race as I see the vibrant blue with yellow and red accent. This is the very first motherboard I’ve ever built on. Although this is not my original build, this is the exact model that I had. I cannot believe that all these years later I’ve got another identical motherboard. My rig was originally built with this motherboard and an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600. ( https://intel.ly/36iJeCm ) Then later as life went on I got a job at a local computer repair shop. (Pham Computers http://bit.ly/2RCbOJI ) Regularly customers would bring in their old, non working computers and ask for us to recycle them. Few and far between would we come across a part that was worth keeping, and most times then not, the parts worth keeping wouldn’t work. Until one day, I came across something I’ve never before seen in my life. The Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6800. ( https://intel.ly/37mwUTa ) Upon first testing, the CPU didn’t work, an...