thank god amds are built tuff

i almost f**ked up my bros amd 64 x2 3800+... me being me i had to check out his computer while he wasn't here. so i decided to see what kind of thermal paste/pad he has if any, he got it prebuilt. i'm trying to pull it off but it wouldn't move. so with a bit more force it pulled up a bit and it sounded like sticky tape or something so i proceed to completely pull it off and OMFG!!! there is no dam cpu when i lifted it there... ************ufckufkc... i look at the back of the heat sink and its there... i ripped it right out of the dam socket! so got a screw driver and poped off the cpu and it was fine i reinstalled and booted it up and its fine... jesus christ i will never do that again LESSON LEARNED! if one of the pins were to break would it boot?

If a single pin broke it would be dead. Even if a pin got bent it may not work. You got lucky.

Yeah... that would have royally sucked if it had died. Lesson learned, eh? That's the thing most people don't do (and I don't think anybody here is among those that are less intelligent), they ignore the lesson, and do it again. Hmm... I wonder what happens when I stick a fork in the power outlet... Ow! Crap! That hurt... *two days (or minutes, whichever you prefer) later* I wonder if it still does that when I stick a fork in the power outlet. You can guess what happens. :D

You should have ran the comp for 20 mins to warm up the thermal pad ;) nothing scarier than seeing those little gold pins sticking out the bottom of a heatsink. You can always straighten out the pins using a credit card or equivalent plastic.

I've actually done that plenty of times, with the same processor. Yes, thank god AMD's are built tough. :up:

yeah, it happened to me also, only i have a socket 478 P4, when i first dismantled the computer to clean it, after 3 or 4 months, i tried every trick I knew, hair drier, rotating the heatsink a bit, nothing worked, basically there was no way i could get it off except puling the whole thing out

the thing i noticed is that the socket ,at least the type i have, does not develop a lot of grip, it didn't take much force to pull it straight off !

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the thing i noticed is that the socket ,at least the type i have, does not develop a lot of grip, it didn't take much force to pull it straight off !

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ya on my brothers it didn't seem to have much bite, at least not what i would expect.

man i know what was in your head that second... ! lol

i can still remember the cold sweat on my back

I believe the same thing happened to Dave.

You're a seriously lucky sonofabitch!

Fair play, like GT40 said, I know exactly what went through your body (not just your head) at that instant!

I've had bent pins on multiple processors. I just use my fingernail to bend them back. I've even had the processor stuck to the heatsink like that and pull right out. All of these were Intels though.

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All of these were Intels though.

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Speaking if Intels, isn't it nice they don't have pins anymore? There's only copper contacts to there's nothing to break. The proc. won't come out of the socket either since there's that cover thing.

Intel's next marketing campaign:
So easy to install, a caveman can do it. :p
Why a caveman would even be around a PC? I don't know. lol

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Intel's next marketing campaign:
So easy to install, a caveman can do it. :p
Why a caveman would even be around a PC? I don't know. lol

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LOL

Like the Gieco commercials, where the caveman gets all pissed off. That'd be epic. A scene of a dude putting in an Intel proc then saying "So easy, a caveman could do it", then the next scene is a Caveman building something insanely hard... like a 50-computer beowulf cluster. While scoffing at the Intel person.

So easy, a Mac user could do it.

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So easy, a Mac user could do it.

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But Mac users don't know how to build (good, anyways) computers! :alien:

I had a similar event happen to me a few months back to my AMD 3700.

The cpu came out with the heatsink and a whole row of pins got bent. I straitened them with a Credit Card but didnt realy care at the time sence I took it out to replace it with a 4800X2.

Then the 3700 ended up on the carpet pins down some way or another. I dont know how long it was like that (probaley atleast a week) but I tested it a few weeks ago and it still runs fine. I even did stess tests to make sure. AMDs are definelty tuff.

I put my 8800GTX on the carpet

*hides*

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I put my 8800GTX on the carpet

*hides*

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if you don't want it just send it here, i'll even pay shipping ha!

I also put a can of Dr Pepper on it.

I think I'll keep it.

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So easy, a Mac user could do it.

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lol, brave boy....

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LOL

Like the Gieco commercials, where the caveman gets all pissed off. That'd be epic. A scene of a dude putting in an Intel proc then saying "So easy, a caveman could do it", then the next scene is a Caveman building something insanely hard... like a 50-computer beowulf cluster. While scoffing at the Intel person.

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That would be the best commercial ever. I'd plus rep you... but I already gave you one for something else. Gotta love non-existent hand drawn chicks with blue hair and unrealistically big boobs! I mean c'mon, who doesn't like that? ;)

DaJe, You got balls the size of melons.

If I might also add, they are probably entirely made of solid Osmium.

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now that was FUNNYYYYYYYY !

you made my day mate :D +rep

I once bent about 10 pins on my socket 775 board I straightened them out using pin-nose tweezers and it worked fine!

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Same thing happened to me the other week, actual screwed the Mobo.

Was this a 939 by any chance?

-Dave

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actual screwed the Mobo.

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are you serious ??? wtf ! how did that happen ?

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Same thing happened to me the other week, actual screwed the Mobo.

Was this a 939 by any chance?

-Dave

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i'm not 100% sure becuase i\m not used to amd's but i think it is, let me go count the pins...haha. here is what it looked like.

Before I had an 8800GTX, I had a 7950GX2.

These are all the pictures you need to see...

Bah, our 6800XTs are good for now. Although, it would be nice to have a faster card... but that's just me trying for too much... I can't wait to see how Oblivion runs on this thing, that'll be awesome, and progbuddy showed me how to OC my CPU yesterday, but I'm not gonna screw with it, but he did up it to about 2.8ghz per core, and it runs quite a bit better.

Yeah, that's either an AM2 (basically a 940) or it's a 939. I'm not counting the pins either :D

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are you serious ??? wtf ! how did that happen ?

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Exact same way this did, removed the HSF and the louzy zip decided the let go of the CPU. Afterwards, the mobo wouldn't boot, no beep codes, nothing, so the socket must have sustained some damage.

-Dave

RMA the sucker !

Too show how harder them AMD's are i once had an 2800 athlon actually i still have it one of my kids use it..
Anyway i had takn the CPU out of the machine for a looksie an placed it on the table 2 sec later i looked to see it an my 3 year old had grabbed it an ran off with it i chased him down and found 2 of the pins were bent,After making a few rude noises i straightnd them an put it all back and it booted up an is still going strong 2 years later...lucky me eh.