Pentium 4 CPU is alive after soldering surgery!

[Garlic]

My coworker was building a system when he accidently broke and bent 3 pins of the Pentium 4 3.0ghz CPU. One was completely broken off, one was mangled in bad shape and the other was slightly bent.

I told him Id buy it from him for $20 to use as a cool hightech center piece since he thought it was a lost cause. Little did he know he just handed it one with a decade of soldering experience.

Got home and about 35mins later it was alive!!!
The mangled pin was so bad I had to amputate it so 2 new pins had to be made.
I thought it would be cool to share some pics.

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[Sentential]

I had a friend who did the same exact thing with a Winch of his... glad everything turned out!

 

[InlineFive]

Are those materials as conductive as the normal (gold?) pins?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Good job Garlic, those pins aren't easy to solder too at all. Good thing that they were around the outside edge.

 

[Philippine Mango]

Um, how were you able to solder it on? I just broke off two pins off a 2.2GHZ Celeron processor and I need to solder some pins back on. How were you able to hold the pin up and then solder?

 

[CaBoOse999]

Wow nice save.

 

[Budman]

:thumbsup:

20$ for a P4 3ghz. that's quite a :gift:

Wanna sell it for 25$?

 

[Rock Hydra]

What's that red stuff on the pins? BLOOD?!

 

[Demo24]

LOL COOL!

 

[garkon8]

Excellent, one of the tightest soldering jobs I've seen!

 

[UzairH]

Very impressive, great soldering job. Didn't your friend know you were a electrical soldering expert? Maybe you should start a business of repairing pins on processors

 

[Burn2619]

Very nice tight work. What mix solder did you use ? Looked like a high tin but could just be the lighting. Wouldn't a nice silver radio solder be more conductive/eff to use ?

 

[Promit]

How on earth do you solder that tightly by hand?

 

[imported_Kensai]

Nice job.

 

[Hyperlite]

Wow, nice job man. That must have been a very small soldering iron.

 

[superkdogg]

That's some sweet work. If I break pins can I PM you for repair? Holy cow!

 

[fbrdphreak]

Give us more details on how u did that beast!

 

[NightTrain]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
Give us more details on how u did that beast!

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: Budman
:thumbsup:

20$ for a P4 3ghz. that's quite a :gift:

Wanna sell it for 25$?

Smooookin' deal

 

[jamesbond007]

So, are you going to tell him?

Where's the details!?

 

[islandtechengineers]

Originally posted by: jamesbond007
So, are you going to tell him?

Where's the details!?

LOL, I was thinking the same thing as i scrolled through this post. Congrats on the outcome of the project!