The Toll Of Fooling With Hardware - Dead 740

[Slappa]

Playing around with a delidded 740, cracked core, dead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cdHmhBxA6E

 

[Castiel]

Ouch. How much did you push it?

 

[Slappa]

Ouch. How much did you push it?

Sadly this was the first time i was going to use it

 

[SickBeast]

I took the heatspreader off my old Opteron 165 and I damaged some of the small chips that surround the core. Thankfully it still worked, but it would no longer overclock as high. I learned my lesson and haven't touched a heatspreader since!

 

[manimal]

You can always mod it into a keychain!!

 

[Spikesoldier]

ouch thats a big diagonal crack.

thats too bad ya didnt get to fire it up. ive never de-lidded a cpu yet but if i was gonna get hands on with the cpu and it had a IHS, then i would just sand the hell out of the IHS until i can see my pretty face on it.

 

[SickBeast]

I was under the impression that Intel soldered the IHS directly onto the CPU core, thus making it impossible to remove it.

 

[chubbyfatazn]

What did you use to clean off the solder?

I'm pretty sure AMD started soldering the core to the IHS after the S939 days... I know they did for the Phenoms, at least.

 

[Plimogz]

I was under the impression that Intel soldered the IHS directly onto the CPU core, thus making it impossible to remove it.

What did you use to clean off the solder?

I'm pretty sure AMD started soldering the core to the IHS after the S939 days... I know they did for the Phenoms, at least.

I just thought I'd bump this thread and see whether someone could confirm or refute that IHS's are now attached differently than in socket 939 days -- oddly enough, I too, like SickBeast, maimed a 500$ Opty with a 0.99$ razorblade.

To this day I still occasionally facepalm over that one...

 

[Dark Shroud]

That CPU almost looks like it was lapped.