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August 1st, 2007
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|  G/F's processor is knacked! One of the pins broke on her 3.0GHz P4...  Can I just buy another 3.0GHz P4 and just put it in? Or is it going to be another pain in the arse?  Pentium 4 2.8GHz (FSB 533) Elite L4S5MG3 Mobo 2x512 PC2100 RAM Sapphire ATI Radeon X1650 Pro 256MB GDDR3 160GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 HDD 160GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 HDD Lite-On CD-RW/DVD-ROM LTC-48161H Sony DVD-RW DRU-800A Sumvision 550W PSU Creative i-Trigue 3330 2.1 Speakers Samsung SyncMaster 913n 19" LCD Monitor Windows XP SP2 |
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August 1st, 2007
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| With a pinch of insane!  Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: England, 127.0.0.1
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| Re: G/F's processor is knacked! as long as its the same socket CPU as before, there should be no problem with just putting in a new CPU   |
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August 1st, 2007
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| Join Date: May 2006 Location: Rhode Island USA
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| Re: G/F's processor is knacked! Did the pin break off in the socket? Opteron 64 165--1.5GB DDR--ECS KA1 MVP(thanks HL!)--x1800GTO 256MB--Seagate 320GB SATA--Antec 550 Watt--Antec P180 |
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August 1st, 2007
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| Modder-ator  | Re: G/F's processor is knacked! Sounds like it broke off the processor, making it a socket 478 processor? On that old of socket, your easiest option to get back up and running is to just buy a new processor. If you are a little more daring, you could try the processor in the motherboard anyway and see if the computer still works (it's possible). If you didn't want to buy another Pentium 4 processor of some kind, you would need to buy a whole new motherboard/processor (and probably RAM and video card).  |
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August 1st, 2007
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| ako the pinoy  Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: by the beach
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| Re: G/F's processor is knacked! i thought only AMD CPU have pins??? probably your talking about the Mobo... if i where you save some dough and buy new set of hardware, be daring like blake said... and also to save a lil salvage parts from the old rig... like RAM, HDD, DVDDrive, PSU only if your PSU can support the new rig... you can buy a nice new rig in a couple of hunderds... give it a try... tell me a budget and we can make a mock up shopping list... Abit IP35-E C2D E6750 G0 @ 2.66ghz [TR Ultra120EX] EVAG 8800GTS [TR HR03] Corsair [2gbDual@800] 820GB HDD[120/200/500] Antec TP 550W Silverstone Temjin 09 Saitek Eclipse1 & Razer DeathAdder Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit |
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August 1st, 2007
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| Join Date: May 2006 Location: Rhode Island USA
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| Re: G/F's processor is knacked! Quote:
If the pin broke off in the socket, I think you pretty much out of luck. Do you have a picture of which pin broke off the CPU, if its a ground pin, the CPU with luck would still be usable Opteron 64 165--1.5GB DDR--ECS KA1 MVP(thanks HL!)--x1800GTO 256MB--Seagate 320GB SATA--Antec 550 Watt--Antec P180 | |
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August 1st, 2007
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| HL's Technomancer  | Re: G/F's processor is knacked! Hmm, thinking about it, couldn't you take a ball of Silly Putty and press it against the socket to remove the pin? I've never had a problem with broken pins, so I don't know how that'd work.   |
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