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PLS HELP: cpu pins fried?

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nickt

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Well i finally bought a p4 1.8a and a gigabyte 8iex 533 and 512 samsung ddr333 cl 2.5.
Anyway i brought i home, hooked it up, slapped on some thermal paste and locked the cpu and heatsink down.
I turned on the power and nothing booted... and it powered itself down. Then i painstakingly removed every component to check and when i removed my cpu i noticed that 3 of the pins were black and shortened. I also noticed on the cpu holder on the mobo were some black markings from those pins. I put the cpu back in, turned the power on and hey presto it worked!!

The thing is my computer runs fine at 1.8 with 13 hours of prime testing.

I was wondering if i should take it back knowing that those pins may be damaged or burnt, even tho its running fine??

If in fact it is damaged and not a part of the normal cpu install process....
 
were the shortened pins long enough to insert into the socket?
I would take it back either way. You are never going to know if random or
sporadic crashing in the future will be due to this damage. It is likely a
defective part.

you might want to test its overclocking potential just for the heck of it.

good luck
 
thanks for the help
the pins ARE long enough for the socket

i have oced it to 120x 18 = 2160 with a vcore of 1.6 volts b4 it can boot 🙁
im trying now to take the fsb up slower (5 mhz each time prime testing for 12+hours)
ive just started and have it at 105 x 18 = 1890 😀 stable at default core

anyone else have ideas on the pins?
 
If you can take it back do so. Looks like you are not getting a very good overclock outta it anyways so its an excuse to try get a better one 😉
 
115 fsb x 18 now = 2070 mhz
default vcore
retail hs and fan
temps are 44 idle and 60 at load.... reported by mbm5
i dont know why they are so high
i think the GA-8iex exagerates the temps
 
yer doin 12+hours of prime testing each time
i actually have had to back down to 118x 18 = 2126 at default vcore
i might try upping the voltage soon to go higher......
 
Well please do let me know when you finally reach your highest stable overclock. I would be interested to know what speed you will get outta that chip.
 
thanks for the motivation buddybatz man
i really need it cause lately ive been getting lots of cold boots!!
ie. the computer restarts when i turn it on but after 5 mins i can up the fsb without problems!!!
arrghhh is cold booting a problem with all cpus?
or is it only mine?

ill keep upping the fsb and raising the core to 1.65 max
 
Well cold booting isn't a problem with my chip. Maybe you need to burn it in. I don't know if I believe in such a practice but many people swear by it.
 
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