Athlon Xp colors

[deerslayer]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: LyNx01
Can you people see your processors when they are installed or something?

Maybe it's just me, but I have a heatsink in my computer that seems to cover up the processor 😕

Are there watercooling setups where you can actually see the processor?

We build our own computers, so we know what every part looks like.

Yes, I also build my own computers.

I meant after the processor is installed. I guess what I said could be interpreted as "while it's being installed" rather than "after it's been installed" .

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Yep, the green makes a pretty keychain after the newbies nuke the CPU trying to install the HS/F or turn the system on with no HS,F on it 😀 otherwise what would be the point since it's covered by the HS/F and you never see it? 😉

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: LyNx01
Can you people see your processors after they are installed or something?

Maybe it's just me, but I have a heatsink in my computer that seems to cover up the processor 😕

Are there watercooling setups where you can actually see the processor?

I run my XP without a heatsink just to see the cool green strata. I do have it underclocked to 33 mhz though.

 

[Soulkeeper]

hahahaha, well atleast it's async with yur pci bus

 

[SharkyTM]

from what the AMD rep told me and my ChemE friend at the plant tour, the colors were just coincidental. They use an organic plastic to make the chipfaces now. Its easier to do. They use almost the same material as the PIII, except the PIII has circuitry near the surface of the PCB. I'm sure that if Intel wanted, they could have made the PIII's green and the Celerons brown... would've been fitting.

The closeups that Toms Hardware (and AT) do of the chips are photomicrpgraphs of the unprotected silicon, under very specific light conditions. You can have some fun and take an old P1, or 486, and put it on the stove, let it heat up for 30 sec. or so, then gently pry up on the little gold square on the back (or front)... the heat will have melted the solder, and the plate will come off... you'll be looking at the silicon, connected by about 200 gold wires... clean off the wires with a cloth, and you have chip art. 🙂

Shark

 

[MatthewF01]

is there a way to remove the top surface of a Tbird core?


i have a dead Tbird i wanna see inside of.



in fact, i also have an old Cyrix that i ripped outta my friends grandmas pc they were throwin out