CPU on ebay - clearly removed from system by an expert

[Pob255]

What you do is wave a hammer over the chipset and say "You naughty chipset! If you don't talk to the nice 'ickle CPU I'm going to have teach you a lesson!" That usually works.

True and of course you can make a pci-express graphics card fit in the agp slot by using a hacksaw.

[Biscuit]

and firewire slides snugly into USB with the simple application of a doctor martins boot.

[scaryjim]

... you cannot just swap a socket 754 (aka socket A) for an AM2 socket ...

-5 nerd points for Pob, too - Socket A was socket 462

AFAIK AMD sockets stopped having letters after Socket A (unlike Intel sockets, which still have official letters but no-one uses them ).

[Uriel]

AsRock made boards that were upgradeable from 754 to 939 to AM2. A riser card was involved though. I just sold the AsRock 939Dual-SATA2 and AM2CPU board that saw me from a 939 athlon 3000+ to an AM2 athlon X2 5000+ BE on eBay. Gave me 5 years solid service. I felt like I was saying goodbye to an old friend dropping it off at the post office.

[scaryjim]

I believe a few companies made adapter boards that let you put a socket 478 CPU in a socket 775 motherboard as well. It's always annoyed me that no-one thought to do that for Socket S1 -> AM2...

[watercooled]

I believe a few companies made adapter boards that let you put a socket 478 CPU in a socket 775 motherboard as well. It's always annoyed me that no-one thought to do that for Socket S1 -> AM2...

AM2 switched to DDR2, and AFAIK wasn't backwards-compatible with DDR1. If it's sarcasm again though, well I give up...

It's hard to tell sarcasm in text, you can't hear their tone of voice and it's harder again when you don't know the person or their personality.

[razer121]

Side not - has anyone directed the seller of said cpu to this thread? i'd like to know his comments on all this XD

[scaryjim]

... If it's sarcasm again though, well I give up...

No sarcasm: socket S1 was the mobile equivalent of AM2 for Turion + Mobile Athlon CPUs with integrated dual channel DDR2 memory controllers. It always seemed to me that it should be possible to remap the smaller S1 socket to AM2, since both processors were architecture identical. But afaict it was never done, and it's practically impossible to get hold of a Socket S1 motherboard...

[watercooled]

Oh, I read S1 as AM1 for some reason.

I think I'll stop posting on this thread now...

[Uriel]

There never was an AM1.

[watercooled]

Aww I meant 939, what is this thread doing to me?

[Saracen]

It's in the socket to prevent bent pins. The CPU is apparently working fine as described.

While I can see the reason for the pee-taking, that was my reaction - especially if you don't have a suitable CPU box, that's a pretty smart way of ensuring safety in storage and in transit, if the board itself was duff.

Having said that, someone also said it would have been smart if the listing actually mentioned that, and I wholeheartedly agree with that, too.