I am so technology retarded. I kinda know what I am doing, just shit always goes bad. Just usually not this bad.

So I was running a shitty 3800+ dual core 2ghz processor for ever and ever. Decided to upgrade cheaply and just replace the processor on my old ass motherboard. $100 gets me a pretty respectable quad core 3ghz.

I plunk it in, no boot. Tinker with it, no go. I put in my old cpu again, still no go. wtf. Tinker some more, no go. Tinker even more. Then there's the smell. I switch off the power quickly and after the proverbial smoke clears I am left with.



Part of the pin is still in the board. She's toast.

Off to the store (again) to upgrade pretty much everything other than my graphics card. le sigh.