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Lesson to be learned: Don't transfer so many main components from one mother board to another unless you have to.

That used to work great back in the 90s but we live in a very different world now.

I always buy matched sets of MoBo CPU and Ram. If one component dies I buy another matched set. You can swap peripheral cards around until the cows come home and never have an issue but the core components must be able to communicate with each other effectively.

 

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I always buy matched sets of MoBo CPU and Ram. If one component dies I buy another matched set. You can swap peripheral cards around until the cows come home and never have an issue but the core components must be able to communicate with each other effectively.

Perhaps I should clarify. I moved components of one computer and transplanted them into a different case that had a brand new, never used motherboard. Not a case of mixing RAM, hard drives, CPU or chipset per se. It primarily just a slightly different format (mATX) but a brand new B760 motherboard, with a newer BIOS. In essence there was nothing to "match" per se.

In retrospect apart from installing the OS from scratch, I should have renamed the OS. Otherwise for all I know Mint identified it precisely as my other motherboard when it prompted me to install new updates. Had I simply chosen to reinstall the OS even on the same SSD on the newer motherboard from scratch with a different name, I'm certain it would have been fine.

The only thing is, as this involves DDR4 memory and a preference for 12th gen Intel CPUs, I don't think I can sit on this very long, as such components could get hard to find new. In the meantime I found the idle and moderate usage temperatures not to be any different from my small mATX PC, to my "Sleeper" PC. Same CPUs, but very different CPU coolers. -Interesting.

Truth is, I'd like to have at least one computer in a case with components relatively comparable to the present- not the distant past. Though I do have an odd affinity for that little case...lol. But I'd like one with a minimum of two (140mm) frontal fans and one (120mm) exhaust fan.