Opened Pentium Pro

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Windmiller



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:07 pm    Post subject: Opened Pentium Pro Reply with quote

I pried one of those Pentium Pro's with bent pins in half. The scanner does not do justice to the die.


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el_gecko



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 3:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Die revealing is always exiting Smile

Here is a view of a french artwork from www.deuttai.com, made by G0b:



Brennan, by seeing this one I'm pretty sure your next one will be visually improved Wink

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Wizzard1



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow, thats massive!! I wish I had one so I might do that to it Razz I have a p133 de-capped... It's beautiful.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK I'm going to test my knowledge on processors now. On el_gecko picture, there are 3 dies. I guess that the two to the left is L2 cache and the one to the right is the core. Am I right?
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yup, you are correct, Cache is essemtially just large banks of SRAM
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

icon_joy I think I have learned something about processors after all Smile
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yay! always a good thing
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 2:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I got one in my collection that has not been assembled


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