Crushing core

[kynan]

What exactly is crushing a core? A friend gave me his gig t-bird that he said he fried. I tried it on two boards, no post. There's little tiny corner pieces missing off the edge of the core on 3 corners. Is this "crushing"? Looking at the chip, the pencil trick looks like it has lead from the L1 to L3. Would this cook it?

Any suggestions?

 

[Darthtanion]

Yes, the chips from the edges of the corte are what is considered "crushing the core". It normally happens when a HSF is put on slightly wrong and it causes the corners of the core to break off. You'll normally hear it make a crunching noise when you do it.

It doesn't take much of a chip off the edge to make the processor inoperable. And as far as I have heard, there is no fix for it.

 

[flexer1]

My 1.2ghz cpu is chipped on one of the corners but it runs @ 1.45ghz. So far very stable and no problems. I might have chipped it when I uninstalled the Taisol heatsink. It took me forever to uninstall it. I almost had an OVERCLOCKING RAGE!!!

 

[Fingers]

Hmm that sounds really strange flexer1. I have never heard of anything like that before.

Has anybody else heard of anything like this?

 

[flexer1]

Man this chip is FAST. Faster than a dual P3-700 @ 1024mhz I used to have (I sold it ). I'm an AMD fan now. I can't wait for Palominos! Bye bye Intel...