{"id":2702,"date":"2009-03-24T17:35:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T21:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2009-03-25T09:59:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T13:59:45","slug":"5-fan-kills-100-times-its-value-in-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2702","title":{"rendered":"$5 Fan Kills 100 times its value in hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new computer is here and I&#8217;m slowly hammering it into some sort of usable shape. I&#8217;ve performed an autopsy of the old machine and its accoutrements. The butcher&#8217;s bill:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My power supply.\n<\/li>\n<li>Motherboard.  (And without the motherboard, I can&#8217;t say if the CPU survived.  Not that it matters.  I&#8217;m not going to go shop for a compatible motherboard (a complex task even if the CPU is brand new and you know the exact make, which it isn&#8217;t and I don&#8217;t)  so I&#8217;m calling it a loss as well.\n<\/li>\n<li>Everything plugged into a USB port. (My wireless Mouse &#038; keyboard set.)\n<\/li>\n<li>My video capture card. (Nooooooooo!)  That is going to be a nightmare to replace.\n<\/li>\n<li>My AGP graphics card is most likely dead, although that&#8217;s no big loss as I no longer own an AGP compatible machine.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Silver lining: The hard drive survived.  I have backups of the critical data and patchwork backups of the less-critical stuff, but the drive itself is far better.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post more about the new machine later. <\/p>\n<p><i>Off-Brand Intel Single-Core 3.0Ghz passed on this weekend as the result of prolonged internal cooling difficulties.  It was 3.  Services will be held at the Greater Pittsburgh Recycling Center this Thursday. Born in 2006, Off-Brand is survived by a lone Western Digital hard drive.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new computer is here and I&#8217;m slowly hammering it into some sort of usable shape. I&#8217;ve performed an autopsy of the old machine and its accoutrements. The butcher&#8217;s bill: My power supply. Motherboard. (And without the motherboard, I can&#8217;t say if the CPU survived. Not that it matters. I&#8217;m not going to go shop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}