Benching Sempron 145 under LN2 for the first time :L

[ObscureParadox]

Well finally got round to testing the first Sempron 145 I bought around 2 years ago and it was a half decent chip. 7th Global for wPrime 32M and 1024M (will upload results later) and ran Cinebench at a decent clock too but I was on the wrong OS for that run so the result is shockingly bad

 

Anyway long story short after the board got a little too frost to continue I stripped everything apart and packed it away for another time. When putting the CPU back in it's box I noticed something wasn't quite right

 

 

 

As you can hopefully see from the pic the CPU has 2 horribly bent pins and yet it still managed to run Cinebench @ 6GHz +

 

So how many pins can the CPU live without and still run? Off the top of my head I think one of the pins was a VSS pin and the other some Memory Clock pin (which I thought would be important)

 

VSS I'm sure it can live without since there are many more but just how many can it run without?

 

Cheers guys

 

Lewis.

[GENiEBEN]

Had one with 5 cut off.

[TaPaKaH]

939/AM2/AM3 chips sometimes work well after severe physical damage (missing pins, chipped PCB corners). Had a few such chips myself. So as long as it works, why should you worry?

[Christian Ney]

I have some with missing pins as well. Not working better or worse

[ObscureParadox]

Yeah I was just a bit shocked it worked at all

 

I mean I have a 775 board with 2 bent pins and that will absolutely not boot with anything in.

[ivanov]

It depends which pins are damaged. If GND ones there is no problem

[dx4picco]

just try to remove pins one by one and see when it dosn't work any more

[ObscureParadox]

I would rather not do it to this CPU