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My expensive cpu lesaon. The person that designed lga 2011 had the brilliant idea to make notches on the cpu almost symmetrical. So it is possible with juuuust

My expensive cpu lesaon. The person that designed lga 2011 had the brilliant idea to make notches on the cpu almost symmetrical. So it is possible with juuuust a tiny bit of force to put it the opposite way.

throwawayish 10y ago
Ah, you're the guy why newer LGA2011 caps come with a yellow-red warning sticker about "NOT USING ANY FORCE"? ;)
khedoros1 10y ago
My parents used to have some "junk" computers out in the garage. One of them had a Cyrix 486 clone. These are the pins on that guy: http://www.amoretro.de/wp-content/uploads/cyrix_cx486dlc-40gp_40mhz_ab6250k_back.jpg http://www.amoretro.de/wp-content/uploads/cyrix_cx486dlc-40g... While trying to get as many of those machines working as possible, I unseated the CPU (can't remember why), and I guessed the orientation wrong when putting it back into the machine. I don't remember seeing or smelling any literal magic smoke, but it must've gotten let out, because that machine never booted again. Luckily, that wasn't any kind of new hardware. I've got an active imagination though, and it always comes to mind when I am working with new and expensive equipment.
- sethhochberg 10y ago
  I miss old PGA CPUs like that. They'd inevitably get bent, and you could almost always use the tip of a mechanical pencil (with the lead removed) to bend things back into almost exactly the right place and boot the machine. Nowadays everything is LGA and if you bend one of the tiny in-socket pins you're just sunk.
  - khedoros1 10y ago
    I liked clicking down the locking arm. It made a satisfying click, after an equally-satisfying increase in tension. A lot of the LGA ones now make a sickly-sounding "crinkle" that I've never liked much.
  - theandrewbailey 10y ago
    AMD is still old school and uses PGA sockets, at least for their desktop parts. I wish they would get with the program (they have for their server CPUs).

throwawayish 10y ago

Ah, you're the guy why newer LGA2011 caps come with a yellow-red warning sticker about "NOT USING ANY FORCE"? ;)

khedoros1 10y ago

My parents used to have some "junk" computers out in the garage. One of them had a Cyrix 486 clone. These are the pins on that guy: http://www.amoretro.de/wp-content/uploads/cyrix_cx486dlc-40gp_40mhz_ab6250k_back.jpg http://www.amoretro.de/wp-content/uploads/cyrix_cx486dlc-40g... While trying to get as many of those machines working as possible, I unseated the CPU (can't remember why), and I guessed the orientation wrong when putting it back into the machine. I don't remember seeing or smelling any literal magic smoke, but it must've gotten let out, because that machine never booted again. Luckily, that wasn't any kind of new hardware. I've got an active imagination though, and it always comes to mind when I am working with new and expensive equipment.

sethhochberg 10y ago
I miss old PGA CPUs like that. They'd inevitably get bent, and you could almost always use the tip of a mechanical pencil (with the lead removed) to bend things back into almost exactly the right place and boot the machine. Nowadays everything is LGA and if you bend one of the tiny in-socket pins you're just sunk.
- khedoros1 10y ago
  I liked clicking down the locking arm. It made a satisfying click, after an equally-satisfying increase in tension. A lot of the LGA ones now make a sickly-sounding "crinkle" that I've never liked much.
- theandrewbailey 10y ago
  AMD is still old school and uses PGA sockets, at least for their desktop parts. I wish they would get with the program (they have for their server CPUs).