About two months ago, I was upgrading a computer to a 3.2g prescott processor and I dropped the processor. Two pins were bent. One slightly and the other almost double. I managed to straighten one but the other broke off even with the base of the processor. I decided to try the processor anyway, it ran at half speed, but still hyperthreaded. I allowed it to run for several days, but it was too slow. After thinking about it for a while I cut a short piece of thin wire that was slightly larger than the pins. Using tweezers, I stuck it in the hole where the broken pin would go, leaving a little stuck out. I installed the processor, put every thing back together and it WORKED!! Two months later, IT IS STILL WORKING!!

> About two months ago, I was upgrading a computer to a 3.2g prescott processor
> and I dropped the processor. Two pins were bent. One slightly and the other
> almost double. I managed to straighten one but the other broke off even with
> the base of the processor. I decided to try the processor anyway, it ran at
> half speed, but still hyperthreaded. I allowed it to run for several days,
> but it was too slow. After thinking about it for a while I cut a short piece
> of thin wire that was slightly larger than the pins. Using tweezers, I stuck
> it in the hole where the broken pin would go, leaving a little stuck out. I
> installed the processor, put every thing back together and it WORKED!! Two
> months later, IT IS STILL WORKING!!
>
>By the way, Intel will not guarentee against mishandling! I tried, but they said no!

It's remarkable how tough this stuff is! Ive been using the wire trick to change multipliers on amd's with no problems.Oc'ing for some years on many machines with no burnouts!

Wow I hope you read German... last time I went there they had an English page!
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> It's remarkable how tough this stuff is! Ive been using the <a> href="http://www.ocinside.de">wire trick[/url] to change multipliers on amd's
> with no problems.Oc'ing for some years on many machines with no burnouts!
>
> Wow I hope you read German... last time I went there they had an English
> page!

They still do -- just click on the British flag. ;-)

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I've burnt 2 processors out doing SETI...a 333 celeron that was pushed to 500, and a 600 pIII that was pushed to 900. Both were running at slightly elevated voltages, but below max. They ran for many months, but at some point, one morning they were sloooooow, the math coprocessor section having gone lame. I'm now running a 2500+ AMD chip at stock voltage. YMMV.

> It's remarkable how tough this stuff is! Ive been using the <a> href="http://www.ocinside.de">wire trick[/url] to change multipliers on amd's
> with no problems.Oc'ing for some years on many machines with no burnouts!
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> page!
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