broken pins on my socket 478

[albumleaf]

So I went to install my new cnps-6500 and bent two corner pins on my 2.2 northwood. In the process of bending them back i broke the corner one off... oddly enough it still works. what happened?

 

[imverygifted]

im pretty sure you can look on a diagram of your cpu and see exactly what those pins are suppose to do

 

[CalvinHobbs]

hope your luck continues..but if the pin was there then it must be having a purpose..well just hope it doesn't.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: albumleaf
So I went to install my new cnps-6500 and bent two corner pins on my 2.2 northwood. In the process of bending them back i broke the corner one off... oddly enough it still works. what happened?

Some one else asked the same question you did

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1478247&enterthread=y

 

[StrangerGuy]

Hopefully its just a ground pin and not a signal/data/power pin.

 

[Googer]

Take a picture for us, some one will know where to find a chart for your processor; I have one for my P3 1.4ghz Tualatin (Tualatin Has a differant skt 370 pinout/schmatic than skt370 coppermine)

 

[albumleaf]

interesting.. i think i may have broken a "clock" pin? according to intel's specsheet about teh 478 pin processors. still running with no errors over 12 hours later under full load!

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: albumleaf
interesting.. i think i may have broken a "clock" pin? according to intel's specsheet about teh 478 pin processors. still running with no errors over 12 hours later under full load!

WOW, We may have stumbled upon a hack here! Try to overclock it and change the multipliers, Let us know what you can do with it. Also find a utility that reports the Clock speed in windows and see what happens. CrystalCPUID works great for that.

 

[ribbon13]

Intentionally breaking pins... the new secret in unlocking multipliers! muahahha. That'd be sweet.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
Intentionally breaking pins... the new secret in unlocking multipliers! muahahha. That'd be sweet.

Reminds me of the old Athlon socket A pencil and lead paint trick.

 

[albumleaf]

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: albumleaf
interesting.. i think i may have broken a "clock" pin? according to intel's specsheet about teh 478 pin processors. still running with no errors over 12 hours later under full load!

WOW, We may have stumbled upon a hack here! Try to overclock it and change the multipliers, Let us know what you can do with it. Also find a utility that reports the Clock speed in windows and see what happens. CrystalCPUID works great for that.

ha, I would see if anything happened, but regrettably i'm running the 2.2 on an oem sony board (p4b266-lm).. with no options available :/

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: albumleaf

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: albumleaf
interesting.. i think i may have broken a "clock" pin? according to intel's specsheet about teh 478 pin processors. still running with no errors over 12 hours later under full load!

WOW, We may have stumbled upon a hack here! Try to overclock it and change the multipliers, Let us know what you can do with it. Also find a utility that reports the Clock speed in windows and see what happens. CrystalCPUID works great for that.

ha, I would see if anything happened, but regrettably i'm running the 2.2 on an oem sony board (p4b266-lm).. with no options available :/

Still, try using CrystalCPUID and let us know if it reports anything funny.

I think sony uses ASUS motherboards or at least they did on one of their PC's that I looked at. I cannot say for sure what they are using on your machine but it could be a customized ASUS or equilvalent.

Try Using Clock GEN, It has been know to OC motherboards that were thoght to be fixed like yours
http://www.cpuid.com/clockgen.php

 

[Googer]

Find a friend who has a 478 motherboard and let us know what happens.
Oh, yeah save that CPU if you ever sell your system

 

[Googer]

What pin # did you break, maybe some one else might be willing to try it.

 

[TomKazansky]

lol if this unlocks intel's multi he's gonna become so famous its not even funny.

 

[everman]

Interesting...keep us updated

 

[Mingon]

i had a 2.6c with 4or5 missing pins that still worked, wouldnt overclock much, but stable nonetheless.