Wrecked CPUs :O

[Maximilian]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lot-6x-Ce..._Processors&hash=item4166796888#ht_500wt_1156

The glue/thermal paste that looks to have been purposefully spread on the wrong side and the totally smashed ceramic... how does that even happen lol accidentally dropped of a tall building or what...

 

[dkm777]

I don't think it's glue or thermal paste. Looks like somebody pulled it too eagerly out of the socket and bits of the socket came out with the processor. Seriously, how does that happen?

 

[kernelc]

The thermal paste was correctly applied on these processors: the gold rectangle that you see is the IHS for the 2 dies componing a PPro.

However, the ceramic substrate was really smashed: considering that it is quite hard, these processors were kept very badly!

Regards.

 

[Jeff7]

The thermal paste was correctly applied on these processors: the gold rectangle that you see is the IHS for the 2 dies componing a PPro.

However, the ceramic substrate was really smashed: considering that it is quite hard, these processors were kept very badly!

Regards.

Look at the pic of the undersides.

Maybe the person installing some of those CPUs was an electrician, and thought that it was to be used like dielectric grease.

 

[sm625]

I don't think it's glue or thermal paste. Looks like somebody pulled it too eagerly out of the socket and bits of the socket came out with the processor. Seriously, how does that happen?

This may be just groundless speculation, but I bet the folks who did the pulling were driving cars with big shiny rims that cost more than their house, and I bet they were in a hurry!

 

[ThatsABigOne]

I would never shell out 48 pounds for abused trash...

 

[kernelc]

Look at the pic of the undersides.

Maybe the person installing some of those CPUs was an electrician, and thought that it was to be used like dielectric grease.

I didn't see the underside pictures... what terrible death for these CPU/Sockets...

 

[cytg111]

ppro was a huge leap forward in its time, while it was not a workstation cpu, it spanked everyone and everything in its time. One might buy them for their place in history

 

[ViRGE]

I have the sudden urge to hug my PPro and tell it that everything will be okay...

 

[Charles Kozierok]

Yeah those chips were obviously ripped out of their sockets or something.

A while back THG did an experiment with recovering gold from electronic components. They got some, but only after a lot of work and chemicals, and it wasn't much. Anyone paying 58 pounds for those chips is probably going to lose money on the deal.

 

[mikeymikec]

ppro was a huge leap forward in its time, while it was not a workstation cpu, it spanked everyone and everything in its time. One might buy them for their place in history

It seems massively over the top to use the word 'sacrilege', but I think a processor like that ought to have been treated with a bit more respect.

 

[bico]

"hug your cpu" day?

 

[chubbyfatazn]

Dead thread, but how the hell do you break the ceramic packaging on one of those things? Must have been quite a force.

 

[ArizonaSteve]

I have one in a computer that I left at my dad's house in England. As far as I know it's still working.

 

[Idontcare]

Dead thread, but how the hell do you break the ceramic packaging on one of those things? Must have been quite a force.

I'd venture to guess that they were semi-fused into the sockets (metal-on-metal contact, add ten years plus voltage plus temperature, think extremely slow arc-welding) and they were pried out with a flathead screwdriver.

I had a Cyrix chip that did something like that to me. In the end I did not trash the chip but I did a number on the socket trying to get that thing out.