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Sexy Hardware Close-Up Pic Clubhouse.

I have a container of old CPUs and it's the only AMD chip in there. Since I don't have enough plastic trays for all the chips, I de-pinned the entire 4400+ so that it doesn't scratch off the lettering from all the other CPUs :D

You can report me to the silicon authorities now

Seriously, it was tough to break off all the pins with a razor.
Ahhh, I thought you may have converted to LGA to use it that way.
 
Eh I just keep em around for novelty's sake. If we're talking old hardware usability in that box, I only have a kinda-working LGA1156 board and a kinda-working LGA1155 board to spare for them.

By that logic, I should throw away my Slot 1 Pentium II, but I never will :D
Hording tech buried alive! :fear:
 
Did some unauthorized and warranty-voiding (if it was still 2010) service to my Xbox 360, and snapped some pics of the CPU and GPU.

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Its HDMI port stopped working after I reassembled it, which is weird. AV still works, so I can still get HD output with component.
 
im surprised they etched their name on the chip

that chip ate up about 70% of my kids leisure time when thye were little
 
holy cow those are some awesome pics in here.
 
Failed delid of a soldered chip (is gore sexy!?). This was a Xeon L5420, basically a low-TDP server version of the Core 2 Quad Q9450. It's totally possible to delid a soldered chip without pre-heating but I was tightening the vice too fast and knew it was game over when I heard little cracking sounds. You need to go SUPER slow. At least I delidded successfully on the next attempt after this one.

This is pretty cool though because the broken chiplet is almost perfectly intact. You can see the two Harpertown cores and 6MB L2 cache.

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This is pretty cool though because the broken chiplet is almost perfectly intact.
Back then they were considered a monolithic die with dual cores. I guess you could get away with calling it a chiplet since everything was still in the northbridge chipset.
Edit: corrected a mistake saying single when I should of said dual.
 
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Back then they were considered a monolithic die with dual cores. I guess you could get away with calling it a chiplet since everything was still in the northbridge chipset.
Edit: corrected a mistake saying single when I should of said dual.
Aren't they rather two full chips, just paired together? Chiplet implies them being somewhat stripped down or dependent upon other chips (such as AMD's IODs) after all.
 
Aren't they rather two full chips, just paired together? Chiplet implies them being somewhat stripped down or dependent upon other chips (such as AMD's IODs) after all.
Yes, a great example is the E6600 (which I used to have,) and the Q6600. The Q6600 is basically two E6600 dies. These Xeons are basically the xeon version of those after a die shrink to 45nm.
 
Yes, a great example is the E6600 (which I used to have,) and the Q6600. The Q6600 is basically two E6600 dies. These Xeons are basically the xeon version of those after a die shrink to 45nm.
As I suspected. Of course, this is all a bit semantic given the gradual move from discrete chips for various tasks (memory controllers, northbridge, etc.) to ever more integrated SoCs, and the SoCs again breaking into several chips on the same package. But a chiplet if the word is to have any distinction from just "chip" must imply that it is dependent on another chip(let) on the same package to work fully.
 
Some pics of my old Dual Pentium Pro system with scsci drives, Intergraph TD300
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but can it run HD videos of crysis?
 
I remember having a Celeron 400A with a CD drive and playing some really low quality shitty movie CD's we got from Kmart or Target, and they recommended a seperate MPEG 2 decoder PCI card
 
This does look tempting from Azza.
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That has an ... interesting airflow design. At least there seem to be plenty of gaps, but the top fan exhausts upwards through some slivers of gaps above it in the glass, as well as the glass-less top area inside the frame. Tight, but it might work somewhat. The bottom radiator is clearly also an exhaust. There dont' seem to be more fans, as the other side has a HDD. So the GPU, due to being mounted horizontally like that, will recirculate its own hot air (hot air will rise, but those fans are pulling downwards, and fans beat convections 100% of the time), with the top fan only partially helping to move it away, and no major effect from the radiator. And given the complete lack of intake fans, the negative pressure setup will cause air to take the path of least resistance, meaning the vast majority of air being exhausted by the fans will enter the case through openings close to the fans, and the vents will be less effective the further from a fan they are (many cases, especially small SFF cases are built around negative pressure, but those place their passive intake vents strategically to ensure airflow over components needing access to air, which this very clearly does not). The GPU is about as far from a fan as you get in this case.

Overall, I predict this to be huge, loud, hot, but a good showpiece for events, YouTube or Instagram.
 
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