Somehow, methinks I was dumb

After a bit of reasoning, and the almighty PICS, I have come to a conclusion, that the little black rectangular thing that comes on intel processors, is not a thermal glue, but a die connector, am I right?

 

LOL. Dood, I'm pretty sure you're talking about the core itself and have been hammering away at the heart of the processor. I was thinking that from the beginning, as I didnt really see ANY thermal paste on the pics, but dismissed it as just a bad pic. If thats true, then these C2D'S can take QUITE the beating!

 

Wow, so I was right now wonder nothing removed it fercryinglikefuk. Now to go put on some AS5 and enjoy. (And no more attempts to sand it off. )

 

LOL! Indeed. If that thing still works and doesnt overheat from all the scratches and sand-marks, you should call Intel. They may wanna use it in an advertising campaign!

 

I was wondering if I was the only one thinking that. I think someone else brought it up as well.

What made you decide to change your mind about the chip?

 

How much did you sand off of the die and it still lived?

 

Lol wow not much else to say then that . Glad its still tickin though .

 

Given what I saw before and after, not much about 2/10 mm. A lot when you consider that it is the cover of the friggin core though.

So yeah, now no crashes, with just applied( as in less than 2 minutes ago as of now) AS5 paste idles around 37,awesome tested under my old load things (lots of Gaussian blur calculations, never goes over 41 AWESOME.


And to dtwn83, I refused to let it go back without one last go, I'm a stubborn ass, but it pays off.

EDIT:
And wow @ quadzilla, that's the exact brand of baby oil I was using.

EDIT: Oh and I guess I should also mention the chunk i carved out of the corner...

 

oh my lord.

 

T_T the core.... you were sanding off the core...

 

He knows this.

 

i guess we should insist on better quality pictures next time

 

Well, it seems I've found the consequences of my actions. Core#1 must have been the one where I took a slit off of the corner, it now runs on avg. 10+degrees hotter than core 0.

Anyone think I could even possibly return the thing now?

 

Hey royk, it looks like ill be joining the ranks with you on the x7800 club. I'll have mine next week.

 

Umm. If theres a chunk of die missing, most likely not. Damn, I hate to say that too.

 

DITU,
congrats on the x7800 let us know when you get it.
no baby oil / sand paper / sword / hammer / ray gun stuff, play safe

 

LOL. Indeed.

 

Code:

     ----------
   /     RIP   \
  |    T9300    |
  |             |
  |  "Damn do   |
  |    I feel   |
  |   stupid"   |
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:cry:
Yeah, you can probably guess what happened. It has left for the big silicon wafer in the sky.

Now I'm pissed. At myself of course, that was a 300$ mess-up.

Oh well, gotta learn and live I guess.

BTW I am back on the T5450, that's how I'm still here.

EDIT: And though I would never blame you, no one here could've done anything. Even if you caught it right away, the main damage had already been done. (the chunk)

 

Damn man. Im sorry to hear that. Did it just overheat and burnup or did it just suddenly stop working?

 

It went back to the way it was prior to applying AS5, then went loco. So yeah, it's a goner.


EDIT: And by loco, it overheats in bios now. YEAH, >_>, not good.

 

I'm wondering how we could work this into an episode of Mythbusters.

 

wow, that sucks, i also didn't see anything in the pic but figured it was just cause of bad quality.

try selling it on ebay, as no return and say that there are problems but not sure what.

 

you will go to hell if you do this

seriously that is a bad advise, this is a forum where people help each other, why would you pass the cost of your mistakes to others ?

after we covered the christian approach lets look on it from a buddahist one:
you had bad karma with this cpu (cant make up a previous life story right now-sorry) now its payed up, if you move this to someone else, then you create new karma with this guy, so some bad will eventually bounce back again. LOL

do what ever you like, just get a new one and forget it happened

 

I can't stop laughing!

 

*cough* I asked..... if that's..... what was happening..... in the last thread..... *cough*

Too bad man, that sucks. We've all done pretty dumb stuff I'm sure though. Couple years ago I was trying to take out my ATI 9800 Pro video card... decided to kind of grab wherever and start pulling.... *POP* one of the capacitors broke off... still worked though, as far as I know it's still working to the guy I sold it to for $50 bucks... but I told him what happened

 

LOL. You did not.

 

I must've been Citizen86 in my previous life.


But now I feel really depressed, there's no way I csan afford one now, and I'm only going to get poorer when uni. starts. :'(

 

Well look at it this way. You still have an awesome laptop! The 5450 is actually a pretty damn good processor, so I wouldnt be too depressed.

 

haha I did! I had it for sale in a different forum with a picture and I used paint to draw a big white circle around where the capacitor had fallen off and a sad face :cry:

Ironically, I also sold him a working (when it was in my hands) stick of DDR1 512mb ram.... which he said didn't work. But he said the video card worked fine

Anyway's, yeah sorry about the CPU Stealthy... **** happens, we've all done some pretty silly stuff. But like Dook said, at least the T5450 is a capable chip. Actually the only reason I've ordered a new processor is because I do some CPU intensive work and I am using this computer for work now... any benefit in gaming is just an additional plus

But for just gaming, there won't be very many games that the CPU will make a huge difference anyways I think. Enjoy it and try to get some work done at University

 

WOW is about all I can say about this....

 

You are a man of many words.

 

yes I am