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Kimura



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 1:09 am    Post subject: What CPU is this? Reply with quote

I decided to play with a dead cpu and see what I could do. Using hammer and anvil [& fire Laughing] techniques, I managed to get a few semi-clean die shots. Any guesses? I'll post the S-Spec if nobody can get it right.




Personally, I would need some hints. Just ask Wink
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 1:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

bit hard without a scale Smile

but my first instinct is a P5 core

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No worries,


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PostPosted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 3:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

im looking at Pentium MMX now
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 4:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

AMD K6? If yes this would be great
because I thought taking adequate die-
pictures of any flip-chip is as good as
impossible but your pics already look ok! Smile

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 4:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's from a flip chip with an IHS Laughing

BTW The functional or visual part of the die is face down on the PCB
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 5:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Closest I could find is a P4 EE
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 10:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tetrium wrote:
Closest I could find is a P4 EE


That is really close but this package didn't have an EE.
Here is a professional image of the same die.

http://sandpile.org/impl/pics/intel/p4/die_90nm_1m.jpg

If you're curious, want to do it, use a dead / damaged CPU. Don't waste a perfectly good CPU please!
I used a butane torch and held the chip with a wrench until the IHS was red hot. I used pliers and popped the IHS off. Note this was a CPU with the IHS soldiered on. I torched the underside and corners (trying to stay off the die itself) until it burned. After it was cooked well done all the way through the die had actually removed itself from the charred PCB. Just a little bit of heat directly to the underside of the die burned away any remaining material, exposing what is in the pictures. I'm sure this method wouldn't work with ceramic for obvious reasons, sorry doccybrown.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 3:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You're looking at whats left of an SL7J7.
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