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mavroxur
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 Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 9:36 pm Post subject: Looking for an opinion |
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| I've got a couple different Geode based ITX boards, both a dead. I'm debating on keeping them on the board, or hot air desoldering the CPU and just keeping that part for my collection. What do you guys think? Better to keep on a board (even though the board is dead) or remove and discard the board? |
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Neon_WA
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| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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if it is known the board is dead.. then desoldering or cutting the board down would be my choice
I used to desolder all CPU chips, but now unless the board is dead and nothing special I leave them on the board
and often a NOS CPU comes along I can use in my collection
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mavroxur
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:30 am Post subject: |
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| Neon_WA wrote: | if it is known the board is dead.. then desoldering or cutting the board down would be my choice
I used to desolder all CPU chips, but now unless the board is dead and nothing special I leave them on the board
and often a NOS CPU comes along I can use in my collection |
That's kinda what i'm leaning torwards. The boards are kinda cool since they're ITX (one is a nano ITX). Anyone else have take on this? |
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D.8080
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I'd keep them on.
Eye candy. In 20 years you can desolder them if you so wish. |
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