Wasn't sure where to put this.
I am looking for plastic trays to hold LGA 775/ 1156/ 1155 CPUs and those plastic/foam holders for memory modules.
Anybody would have some it could spare? Or where to get them from?
I went around to TWO local IT shops, in one they wanted some serial money for it (£20 for what I needed) and in the other they asked me to leave if I do not wish to buy anythingDidn't try the towns around my town.
Cheers.
Was more hoping for someone having lots of plastic trays from used CPU-s and so on. But that case doesn't look bad.
Hi
Are you after the black pastic thingy that the CPU clicks onto so that it protects the chips and the pins underneath the CPU ?
These are my favorite way of transporting single CPUs;
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nk...&_odkw=CPU+box
The CPU is sandwiched in between two bits of foam which prevents it moving sideways and damaging the underside or bending pins.
Who uses CPU's with pins.....oh wait, AMD! LoL
And Intel, pre LGA775 it was pins or slots pretty muchOriginally Posted by samuraiweasel
Yeah, that's what Scan use for RMAs.
Given the number they deal with, I think they probably know what they're doing.
Yeah, I know, it's just that one of my friends almost killed his Phenom when he tried to upgrade coolers (finally). The damn thing came off with the stock heat sink, luckily with all pins attached. I've heard of people leaving a few behind, and it just makes me wonder why AMD still use pins?
If you'd seen the number of people having problems with bent socket pins on the motherboard you wouldn't be wondering any moreIf you screw up the CPU it's at least an easy replacement.
tbh, once you know of the pitfall - or if you read any of the guides on changing your heatsink - you'll do it properly and gently rotate the existing HSF to help loosen the bond the TIM creates. First time I did it was with a side-blowing OEM fan for s478, and I had to get a sharp instrument and insert it between the CPU and the HSF to get the damn thing off, followed by a lot of scraping to remove the horrid pink TIM. I'm still not convinced that they hadn't used some kind of cement by mistake
Of course, life was a lot easier before everyone started putting integrated heat spreaders on their CPUs - TIM just doesn't bond HSFs to silicon in the same way!
I can't imagine many people have a huge stack of "spare" CPU holders - a few years back if you caught me at the right time I might have had ten or so lying around (I did a big order of custom PCs for a charity) but I doubt many people regularly buy that many CPUs, and generally if people buy a new CPU they'll sell off an old one, so the packaging keeps moving around. If I were you I'd definitely go for a bulk order of those boxes+foam from ebay - they're the same thing ebuyer used to pack OEM CPUs in back in the day (maybe they still do!), and I've never had one turn up bad in it.
Mind you, it's not that rare for the CPU to cost more than the motherboard.If you'd seen the number of people having problems with bent socket pins on the motherboard you wouldn't be wondering any more
Agree it's a heck of a lot easier though.
It is, or more likely was these days, often the case that the motherboard would be used for several CPUs in its lifetime, so far more likely to be out of any sort of warranty or even production, compared to a CPU.
Well, I guess that depends on how old it is, now days I see them on eBay for the price of a packet of crisps...
Core 2 Duos at least and even Quads once in a while
Also true. From my point of view now, swings and roundabouts, but I know a few were upset about it when it changed (probably myself included).
Mind you, with the rate that Intel are pumping out new chipsets, it's not quite the same situation any more with keeping a motherboard long-term and changing the CPU.
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