Cpu socket repair

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

Its in Russian, so good luck but what he shows us.................Thought I'd post this up as I see so many postings(I understand wanting to fix it).
http://youtu.be/ILDthjf-Tic

 

[BonzaiDuck]

There was a time when I was about 18 and my 20-20 vision was much more keen than "20-20" seems now. I had this Mossberg semi-auto 22 target rifle; I could put six holes in the black label of a Coors can -- somewhere between 100 to 150 feet.

And I still haven't decided yet what to do about that Sabertooth board that needs a socket-pin repair. I just know my soldering skills are limited to modifying USB and fan wires.

And it's a strain just reading the newspaper with my reading glasses.

 

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

If we had some one who could translate for us, we could contact this guy. He knows his stuff, he makes it look simple!!!!

If its just one pin missing you can get $75 on flee bay, let me know........Start the auction at $50 shipped to the lower 48, you'll sell it in no time.

 

[Ratman6161]

If we had some one who could translate for us, we could contact this guy. He knows his stuff, he makes it look simple!!!!

If its just one pin missing you can get $75 on flee bay, let me know........Start the auction at $50 shipped to the lower 48, you'll sell it in no time.

I sort of doubt that. From the video I could tell the brand and model of the motherboard. A quick search on NewEgg revealed that you can still buy this board new for $67.00

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157359

Not that I would actually do it...I'd probably throw the whole old system in the trash. But I guess if whatever CPU and RAM he's still got for it is still adequate it could be worth it.

For a Russian, the recent crash of the Ruble would make any imported goods horribly expensive after all so I guess fixing something like that could be attractive. Most likely all computers in Russia will be horrendously expensive so I guess a guy with those skills could make a business for himself fixing things that in the US we would trash.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I sort of doubt that. From the video I could tell the brand and model of the motherboard. A quick search on NewEgg revealed that you can still buy this board new for $67.00

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157359

Not that I would actually do it...I'd probably throw the whole old system in the trash. But I guess if whatever CPU and RAM he's still got for it is still adequate it could be worth it.

For a Russian, the recent crash of the Ruble would make any imported goods horribly expensive after all so I guess fixing something like that could be attractive. Most likely all computers in Russia will be horrendously expensive so I guess a guy with those skills could make a business for himself fixing things that in the US we would trash.

As a matter of generalizing intentions, options and trouble, you're probably spot-on.

Consider this scenario, though. Socket-1155 is now only barely available in late-issue, budget boards. Suppose you had a socket-1155 fetish of some kind? Or a spare processor from which you wanted to build a machine? Better -- suppose you wanted to overclock it, and the only available budget boards had something like 4+1 phase-power design?

So . . . you go to Flea-Bay or Amazon. You get a real bargain on an upper-mid-range board with 8+2. Behaving like an "old-hand" complacent with your computer-building practices, your hand slips and you crush a socket pin with the corner of the CPU PCB. Then, in trying to straighten the pin, you break it along a crease.

And the board was pristine-perfect -- perhaps with only a year's usage at stock settings.

That's a scenario in which you'd like to fix that socket pin.

Also -- to the credit of our Russian brethren -- consider this. If I were going to make a You-Tube video to demonstrate socket-pin repair, I'd probably find the cheapest discard boards I could find to make the demonstration.