ObscureParadox_3XS Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GENiEBEN Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Had one with 5 cut off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaPaKaH Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Ney Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 I have some with missing pins as well. Not working better or worse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObscureParadox_3XS Posted July 3, 2014 Author Share Posted July 3, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivanov Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 It depends which pins are damaged. If GND ones there is no problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dx4picco Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 just try to remove pins one by one and see when it dosn't work any more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObscureParadox_3XS Posted July 4, 2014 Author Share Posted July 4, 2014 I would rather not do it to this CPU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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