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Not to mention first Duron processors, originally clocked at 600 MHz, that by shorting some bridges could run at 900 or even 1GHz, at this time there wasn't CPU
by radoslawc 11y ago
Not to mention first Duron processors, originally clocked at 600 MHz, that by shorting some bridges could run at 900 or even 1GHz, at this time there wasn't CPU that fast (customer grade) and that affordable. Other thing was bear dye that could be crushed while mounting heat sink. Later on I've got even more hands shaking while mounting heat sink on next generation Barton which could be overclocked from 2500+ to 3200+, ah old days.
- theandrewbailey 11y agoThe first heatsink I mounted was on a Athlon XP 2500+. To this day, I've never fried a CPU or let the magic smoke out, but it concerns me every time I mount a heatsink. That CPU ran at 3200+ speeds for a few years, until I noticed the capacitors getting nasty.
- krylon 11y agoI have a Core2 Quad 2.4GHz that I use as a small-ish home server. About half a year ago, the power supply died, and when I replaced it, I left the chassis open and noticed the CPU fan was no longer rotating. At first, I was really scared, but the machine is running well to this day. On a hot day, the system log will show many messages about the CPU reducing its clock speed to prevent overheating, but that seems to work well enough. (The system, to be fair, mainly runs as a file and DNS server, so it is not exactly super-busy, but still. It might also help that the fan sits on top of a huge heatsink.)
- krylon 11y ago> Other thing was bear dye that could be crushed while mounting heat sink. A friend of mine did that once. Broke off the tiniest bit from the corner of the die while trying to mount the heatsink, but that killed the CPU. He had been saving money for that CPU for months and was understandably unhappy.
- SixSigma 11y agoI almost know his pain. I snapped the plastic posts on my SIMM connectors once.