Motherboard Sat On Shelf for 6 months, any risk of damage?

Muel

Muel

Muel

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Hey, I've been asked to wipe my grandparents computer and reinstall windows.

Thing is, it is powered by an old AMD Sempron 2800+ 2.0ghz, and I have a Socket 478 Pentium 4 2.4ghz HT and motherboard sitting on a shelf in my bedroom where it has beenfor 6 months.

Which would be faster, and would it have sustained any damage there? I've no idea if any static nastiness could have happened to it. It's actually sitting on a cardboard box, not on the shelf itself if that makes any difference.
 
Mine has been sitting in a dusty metal box with loads of random power things all round it for over a year and it seems to be OK :)

Motherboards are reasonably resilient pieces of kit - I would guess that your motherboard would be fine.
 
Cheers guys, it'll be worth the change to me if it's only slightly faster, but I'd expect a noticeable difference really seeing as it's a 2.4ghz with HT over a 2.0ghz without....

No idea how the motherboards compare up though really.
 
You gotta remember these are pretty old. Things were a lot different then, AMD managed good power with low clocks speeds whereas Intel were high clock speeds but I think were roughly same. I don't know that much of that era but I sutainly know it's a lot different now AMD and Intel have had their ups and downs!
 
Aye I know the tables have turned when it comes to CPUs since then haha.

I read online that a 1.6ghz Sempron is equivilant to a 2.8ghz P4, and I know from personal experience that a 2.4ghz HT is noticably faster than a 2.66ghz none HT, so I reckon there will either be very little difference, or the P4 will be faster.

Think what I'll do is actually test them both and bench it, just out of interest. :P

EDIT: Just realised that the case only takes the motherboard size of the AMD setup, the Intel kit won't fit in it anyway. Looks like it'll just be a case of reinstalling windows and sticking more ram in then. :P
 
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