[ale] Brookhaven-area PC shop recommendations?

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

Ed L. Cashin wrote:
> Thanks a lot.  I didn't know the fan for the memory controller
> wouldn't be temperature activated, so it sounds like that might
> be the problem.  (Which might be bad.  I don't know whether
> the memory controller is replaceable.)

AFAIK the northbridge isn't user-replaceable. It's also going away- AMD
has had it on-die since 2003's Athlon 64, and Intel is finally doing the
same in their new Nehalem microarchitecture.

-Brian