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Pentium 4 CPU is alive after soldering surgery!

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Garlic

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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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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?
 
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 😉
 
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 ?


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