CPU in the wash

[causticVapor]

Well I was a bit absent-minded one day and slipped this cpu into a pant pocket while cleaning...and didn't take it out before putting the pants in the wash. The results speak for themselves:

[Johnny Fist]

Well, at least now its nice and clean.

[causticVapor]

Hehe...looks like it was fished out of the Yellow River.

[sm8000]

Look at those pins

I can't read the core....what was it? Poor thing.

[Jawa]

Wish I had processors just laying around.

Now, what you need to do is take that CPU, find an old Socket A board, and use a hammer to get it into the socket.

Post back with results!

And, is that the pencil trick on the L1 bridges?

[El_Brio]

Looks like a pencil trick on a t-bird to me.

[Death To Mel]

Aight over till it over... you straighten out those pins slap some heat sink paste on that baby and slap her back on a mobo... lol cause you never know.

HAHA You could sell it on ebay "lightly used VERY clean"!!

Regards: Richard

[bushmaster]

Those chips on the die don't look all that promising.

[BionicSniper]

get some sand paper sand thoes ruff edges down and clear coat it=Good as new

[stix_kua]

Yea that can be fixed...

[causticVapor]

Well admittedly, whether or not the CPU will POST again is up in the air. Haven't tested it yet - though I did manage to get it to fit into a socket after an hour of phone-card mangling the pins.

I hope the major cracks are in the cache area - that way at least the CPU can function as a Duron if that area is blown away. If it's in the core logic area we're screwed.

[bassman]

You didn't do it right, the bridges and other shiny things aren't shinig as they should be, put it back on the washer

[causticVapor]

Ack, the images might get broken soon - some folks are already complaining they can't see the images. It seems the max 5MB bandwidth on villagephotos got filled up really fast. Hosting images on my server allows for unlimited "bandwidth" but really puts a strain on the wimpy 12KB/s upstream. NAh well, can't have everything I guess.

Edit - changed the host. this one seems a bit slower but has no lame bandwidth restrictions.

[megaspazz]

yikes- shoulda used some fabric "softener" on that chip- less damage that way.

maybe you could start a pool about if
it'll post or not. i say nope.

(just saw the other pics now-- nasty pin action there.)

[sm8000]

Hey cV, have you tried bbzzdd.com? That's what everybody over at Anandtech uses for image hosting.