Intel Snowball Effect of Hell

This past weekend my wife wanted me to put together a machine for her to play World of Warcraft on. I thought not a problem I have most of the parts here already so it won't be too hard to get the rest of it running with a quick run to the store to pick up the last few things.

One of the last items was a CPU and since I had a 478 pin Intel motherboard hanging around I figured that it would be a good idea to use it. So off I went and picked up a low cost Celeron D 2.53GHz chip (its just for games so its not like the wife will care) and proceeded to create the system.

Everything went really well until it came time to power up... no POST. Well that was odd, so I fiddled around with the system more until I could figure out what was wrong. Turns out that Intel in their insane wisdom, decided to change the cores on the Celeron Ds but make a couple 478 pin compatible (if whomever decided this is reading, I want to bear you skull in with a goalie stick). So great, CPU wont work in the board, and to make matters worse while trouble shooting this I had pulled my P4 2.4GHz CPU out of my workstation machine to test, the fucking heat sink silicon had become like glue on my P4 CPU and it reefed the who god dammed thing out of the socket! Big GRRRR! Now it appears that the P4 CPU is screwed up, the Celeron D won't work (it might with a bios flash) and I am down two machines thanks to this fucking gong show.

I used to really enjoy Intel based products and now though I am just pissed right off. All this lost time, lost hardware and now an extra expenditure of money because some fucking bean-counting ass-wipe thought that it would be a good idea to change cores but keep the CPU pin outs the same.... good job cheif, give yourself a pat on the back for being a fucking moron and know that this is one of many god dammed incompetent reasons why you are losing your market share to your competition.