Got an old useless CPU layin' aroud and I wanna get at what's inside.
Looks like it's gonna be tough without stabbing myself
Anyone done this?
Well I got the metal piece off and can see where the wafer would be, but THAT is a bitch and a half to get out. I've tried scraping around to pry, can't. I've held a lighter to melt the bonding, can't. Probably made it worse. I've just thrown it away.
What was it? Even a PII-300 isn't useless to me, I'm setting it up as an audio mixing box and FreeBSD console station.Got an old useless CPU layin' aroud
Pics. Let's see what it looks like with the IHS off.
Very nice, aig, but I would like to see what phalt got.
What was it? Even a PII-300 isn't useless to me, I'm setting it up as an audio mixing box and FreeBSD console station.
Seriously.
IMO no P4 is good let alone perfectly good. Good job getting another netburst out of circulation.I just destroyed a perfectly good P4 to make a key chain.
Very nice, aig, but I would like to see what phalt got.
isnt incredibly common, but i have seen it done before for cooling reasons. there was a thread either here or on xtremesystems a while back where a guy used the razor around the edges + boil it in distilled water method to get the IHS off, and then he epoxied on a custom milled piece of acetal complete with an intake and outtake G1/4 thread for fittings. he had the water literally running over the CPU die sucking away heat. i think his load temps were somewhere in the high 30c low 40c range, and he got them down even lower with chilled water cooling, like 28c overclocked and overvolted, it was insane. it's also rather insane doing it in the first place since the slightest fuck up and you can literally split your CPU die in half, not to mention any possible risk from static damage or extreme heat.