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With how easy it is to slip up and destroy the pins on these things, I'm amazed how comfortable everyone seems to be with handling a $750 chip with absolutely n

With how easy it is to slip up and destroy the pins on these things, I'm amazed how comfortable everyone seems to be with handling a $750 chip with absolutely no recourse for damaging it besides spending another $750.

nickjj 7y ago
> With how easy it is to slip up and destroy the pins on these things Every socket based CPU I ever saw had a graphical mark or a little cut out on the top of the chip which lined up on the motherboard's socket. Unless you went out of your way to ignore that marking and jammed it in the odds of bending pins are really really low / close to impossible. I'd be more concerned about mounting an after market heat sink on the CPU. I don't know how much has changed in the last few years but the amount of force you need to use to lock them down makes you think you're going to snap your motherboard in half.
cmcd 7y ago
> With how easy it is to slip up and destroy the pins on these things Is it any easier to destroy than any other CPU? Just as easy to crash a Lambo as a BMW but people still drive those.
- nsxwolf 7y ago
  With Intel CPUs the pins are on the motherboard socket. You can easily destroy the motherboard instead, but when dealing with high end CPUs the motherboard is probably the less expensive component.
Matthias247 7y ago
You really have to be unlucky or do something stupid to bend the keys. You just have to pick up the CPU and put it back down at some place without any pressure. If you let it fall down or try to force it to go somewhere - sure you can kill it. But how often do you let something fall down every day? For me it's the same probability then damaging my car while parking in a spacious parking lot - which will be even more costly. Or dropping my laptop.
- nsxwolf 7y ago
  I recently watched my friend attempt to remove the stock cooler from his 2200G and it yanked clean from the socket, bending about 50 pins in the process. Unlucky, sure. Dropping things is unlucky, and that is all it takes. People drop things all the time.
  - knd775 7y ago
    You're supposed to twist the cooler off to break the thermal compound. Pulling it straight off is a really bad idea.

nickjj 7y ago

> With how easy it is to slip up and destroy the pins on these things Every socket based CPU I ever saw had a graphical mark or a little cut out on the top of the chip which lined up on the motherboard's socket. Unless you went out of your way to ignore that marking and jammed it in the odds of bending pins are really really low / close to impossible. I'd be more concerned about mounting an after market heat sink on the CPU. I don't know how much has changed in the last few years but the amount of force you need to use to lock them down makes you think you're going to snap your motherboard in half.

cmcd 7y ago

> With how easy it is to slip up and destroy the pins on these things Is it any easier to destroy than any other CPU? Just as easy to crash a Lambo as a BMW but people still drive those.

nsxwolf 7y ago
With Intel CPUs the pins are on the motherboard socket. You can easily destroy the motherboard instead, but when dealing with high end CPUs the motherboard is probably the less expensive component.

Matthias247 7y ago

You really have to be unlucky or do something stupid to bend the keys. You just have to pick up the CPU and put it back down at some place without any pressure. If you let it fall down or try to force it to go somewhere - sure you can kill it. But how often do you let something fall down every day? For me it's the same probability then damaging my car while parking in a spacious parking lot - which will be even more costly. Or dropping my laptop.

nsxwolf 7y ago
I recently watched my friend attempt to remove the stock cooler from his 2200G and it yanked clean from the socket, bending about 50 pins in the process. Unlucky, sure. Dropping things is unlucky, and that is all it takes. People drop things all the time.
- knd775 7y ago
  You're supposed to twist the cooler off to break the thermal compound. Pulling it straight off is a really bad idea.