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crazybubba64
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 Posted: Sun May 19, 2019 3:50 pm Post subject: CPUs with mangled pins? |
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Figured I'd dip my toe in the water and ask here before listing a bunch of chips.
I got through the huge lot of chips. Sadly, due to a complete lack of any sensible packaging, most/all of the pinned CPUs are in rough shape.
The pin damage ranges from "not too bad" to "borderline unuseable/unsaveable".
I got a whole bunch of AMD K6-2/300AFR's (uhhhh... 57 of them...). Pins are rough. Any interest? Otherwise they are probably headed to scrap.
In addition, there are many Athlon64 X2's, Athlon II's, Phenom II's, P4's, etc. A lifetime supply of E6xxx, E7xxx core 2 chips lol.
There were also a few small surprises, but nothing incredible. Overall a kinda 'meh' lot.
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CPUShack
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ceramic packages its easier to straighten pins on, though maybe not worth it on a K6-2 300AFR as they pretty common (black print ones less common if ya have some of those)
pins on organic substrates like the Athlon64s etc are a pain and very often break off
Maybe the Phenoms are worth it if not bad, but the other? meh
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crazybubba64
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| Posted: Sun May 19, 2019 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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Some of the newer phenoms are saveable, and I intend to try to save those.
All of the 300AFR's are laser engraved, so no dice there lol.
I figured these would make good pieces to stick in a shadowbox with the pins hidden 
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lazyfortress
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Any engineering samples or Xeons? I wouldn't mind using a K6 for a die shot. I intend on using my school's microscopes to take some photos.
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crazybubba64
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| lazyfortress wrote: | | Any engineering samples or Xeons? I wouldn't mind using a K6 for a die shot. I intend on using my school's microscopes to take some photos. |
No ES (honestly, given the state of the chips, I'm GLAD there weren't any). Some prestonia Xeons and a few oddballs. I'll probably post some over the course of the week.
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crazybubba64
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This makes me sad.
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crazybubba64
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The worst part is this damage occurred completely during shipping. I found all the pins at the bottom of the ziplock bag that the chips were sent in...
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Glory_Cloud
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That is damage from an apparent acid bath that loosened the pins.  |
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crazybubba64
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| Posted: Mon May 20, 2019 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Glory_Cloud wrote: | | That is damage from an apparent acid bath that loosened the pins. |
Seems inconsistent with the other chips I got. None of the 486's or Pentium chips had this same issue. If it was an acid bath, why leave all these pins and the heatspreader?
I have seen pins sheared off like this before (mostly on cyrix chips for some reason). They get bagged up with a bunch of heavy chips (P4's, Athlon64's, etc) and get obliterated when the contents shift/get pummeled by USPS.
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Remove the rest of the pins and sell it as a rare LGA version  |
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