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    Re: Processor Hell

    Quote Originally Posted by 3rdalbum View Post
    Buy Intel CPUs - they don't have pins, so you can't bend them.
    Dear god, I would like to file a bug report.

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    Re: Processor Hell

    Quote Originally Posted by TheLions View Post
    yarly: http://worldperfectpc.blogspot.com/2...ocket-775.html

    The new LGA Sockets are pin-less on the CPU. However, on the socket itself, the pins are there. Maybe the AM4 Socket will do the same, would relieve a ton of headaches.
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    Re: Processor Hell

    Happened to me once, on my main computer too. I straightened the pins and it worked just fine. It was actually still working until some months ago (a p3 733mhz, bought in 2000). And the thing that gave up was the motherboard.
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    Re: Processor Hell

    Quote Originally Posted by 3rdalbum View Post
    Buy Intel CPUs - they don't have pins, so you can't bend them.
    In case someone does't get the joke:

    LGA 1155 has 1155 protruding pins...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1155

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    Quote Originally Posted by 3Miro View Post
    In case someone does't get the joke:



    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1155
    I still don't get the joke.
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    Re: Processor Hell

    Quote Originally Posted by Lucradia View Post
    I still don't get the joke.
    Intel uses pins just like AMD. Here is an enlarged picture of the pins. I don't know if the article is right about the issues that the CPUs have, but the picture clearly shows that they have pins.

    http://news.softpedia.com/news/LGA-1...t-178520.shtml

    http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/...ned-Out-3.jpg/

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    Re: Processor Hell

    Quote Originally Posted by Lucradia View Post
    yarly: http://worldperfectpc.blogspot.com/2...ocket-775.html

    The new LGA Sockets are pin-less on the CPU. However, on the socket itself, the pins are there. Maybe the AM4 Socket will do the same, would relieve a ton of headaches.
    Yea LGA = Land Grid Array, pins are in the socket not the chip. Actually one of my most intuitive things Intel has done in a long time.
    Really hope AMD follows this as well.
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    Re: Processor Hell

    Socket A processor? I'll bet you can pick up a pulled(used) replacement for <$10.

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    Quote Originally Posted by koleoptero View Post
    Happened to me once, on my main computer too. I straightened the pins and it worked just fine. It was actually still working until some months ago (a p3 733mhz, bought in 2000). And the thing that gave up was the motherboard.

    The reason I took this computer apart in the first place was I thought the mobo was bad. It worked fine under Winoze XP but when I went to put Linux on it I went through about 5 diff disros (inluding 2 releases of Ubuntu) and none of them would install. Someone with more exper looked at the output I was getting and advised me the mobo was bad. I went with their advice and pulled the thing apart thinking I'd replace it later. Now, lately, I got to thinking maybe that was wrong and I'd try to fire it up and just try to install again. Maybe by some miracle things would be different this time. We'll find out I guess.
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    Quote Originally Posted by walt.smith1960 View Post
    Socket A processor? I'll bet you can pick up a pulled(used) replacement for <$10.

    Before some research this morn I wasn't sure what the socket. Now, I think, it's a 939?

    The spec page on hp's site has a pic of the mobo that looks almost identical but the chips (like the southbridge chip) are not quite identical. It's the same model but maybe the one I have is older or newer than what's in the spec sheet. I don't know.
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    Edit 3:

    I brought it up but didn't include the link. Sorry.

    http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...roduct=1843604
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    Re: Processor Hell

    Quote Originally Posted by ClientAlive View Post
    Before some research this morn I wasn't sure what the socket. Now, I think, it's a 939?
    That sounds right. I had a few old AMD Athlon64s back in the day. I think they were 939.
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