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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RandyDSok" data-source="post: 176399" data-attributes="member: 201">Went down to work this morning to wait for USPS to deliver some Intel CPU trays to keep the old/used CPU's I get in... in this case these will hold 21 LGA 774 -1156 type CPU's. They can also fit some of the smaller PGA ( pin ) types by Intel but most won't be held up off of their pins, so not ideal but considering the age of these, not a big concern either.The original plan while I was waiting for USPS, was to start to upgrade the MB and maybe the SSD in my work computer. Last night, I reconsidered it and decided to not use the B350 chipset as a testbed but instead use the B450 one that I brought from home. My decision was based on the fact that the B450 is likely to support more of the CPU's I'll see in the coming years. It supports from the Zen1 1000 series up through the latest 5000 series CPU's. On the other hand, the B350 supports the older AM4 A-Series and Athlons up through the Zen 3000 series CPU's. While the 2000 and 3000 series CPU's still retain value, the older ones like the 1000 series and earlier don't so if there were a failure on those systems, the labor would likely exceed the value of the hardware itself. Of course, the data on these older systems is where there is any value if anywhere and I can still recover that if the need arises. So my "work" day... was a simple hurry up and wait. I did move my Linux build/install over to the B450 MB with an AMD Zen 1 1500x CPU and 8Gb of DDR4 3200 memory... so it wasn't a complete waste of my time.Once I got back home... I finally took the time to replace the missing rear wiper arm and blade on my Escape. A hailstone ( or few ) had taken it out in that last hail storm and the parts had to be special ordered in. They made it on Monday and I've just be either busy or procrastinating doing it when I did have time. It turns out to have taken a 1/2 hour to remove the old nub that was remaining. They just press fit a smooth bore aluminum sleeve ( in the arm ) onto the steel knurling and it didn't want to budge. It ended up taking a few squirts of WD40, a big screwdriver and a open end wrench ( so I wouldn't be prying on glass ) to finally coax it off. Once it was off, it only took moments to bolt down the new one.</blockquote>

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