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Ladies, Gentlemen and Mods.....
I hereby nominate myself for being the unluckiest moron in the world.
Not content with bricking my StrikerII by making a complete dog's dinner of putting the socket protector on.....yes, I KNOW, this is the one that's down to PURE, unbridled idiocy.
Today I began "take 2" using a Gigabyte board.
Fitted the CPU, lifted the gate again to double, triple verify the orientation of the CPU, popped upstairs to check laptop with AS5 usage guide for correct direction of line for quads. Came back down, lifted board to check the bit of tape holding the TT120's bracket in place wasn't going to fail mid-fitting. Now, hindsight is a marvelous thing, because, although I knew the gate was open, and not to tilt the board too far, but with hindsight, it would have been good to check the CPU was still in it's "groove". Sadly, as I'd opened the gate, the CPU had obviously bound to it enough to lift it out of it's recess. It slid out. I grabbed for it by reflect and caught it.
PHEW!
BUT, where I'd stopped it, the trailing corner, with the pressure of my catching it,had snagged a pin on the LGA.
Me heart is broke.
I've built 3 boxes for other people who wanted intels, with LGA sockets, never had any problems. The first one I built, I even did the noob thing of "WTF's this about.....(PROD)" and the pins bounced back.
Yet now, in an attempt to build an intel box for myself, I have through a combination of crappy luck and downright darwin award winning mental deficiency[1] destroyed five hundred bills worth of motherboards.
Y'know, I could deal with it, if I was a total beginner at this. You may think from some of my posts that I'm not much of an old hand, but the truth is, I never had much cash, so always knocked up el-cheapo, clock-me-and-i-die AMD boards, so the whole wide world of clocking the knackers off a Q6600 is totally new to me. As I said I built intel LGA boxen before, no worries, easy peasy lemon squeezy, despite me being a clinically cack-handed clown. Yet on THE most expensive rig I've ever bought, I manage to 'tard it up a total and complete treat.
The StrikerII is defo FUBAR, toast, 3 pins, mid-array, buckled.
But the gigabyte has only one deformed pin, on the inner edge of the array, and setting the CPU on it gently, seemed to partially re-allign it. I am now debating whether closing the gate on it will completely allign it, or smash it into 4 other pins and make a 90% borked board into a 2nd brightly coloured rooftyle for may collection.
Appearing soon (whenever I've been here long enough) on a MM near you, one strikerIIExtreme and one gigabyte something or other (brain in some kind of denial), suitable for parts, Indian street corner repairmen and lost cause suckers only.
I think there's something fundamental here.
Me+Intel=FAIL!
[1]in mitigation I'm painkillered up to the eyeballs quite a lot of the time, but it's only mitigation, not an excuse.
I hereby nominate myself for being the unluckiest moron in the world.
Not content with bricking my StrikerII by making a complete dog's dinner of putting the socket protector on.....yes, I KNOW, this is the one that's down to PURE, unbridled idiocy.
Today I began "take 2" using a Gigabyte board.
Fitted the CPU, lifted the gate again to double, triple verify the orientation of the CPU, popped upstairs to check laptop with AS5 usage guide for correct direction of line for quads. Came back down, lifted board to check the bit of tape holding the TT120's bracket in place wasn't going to fail mid-fitting. Now, hindsight is a marvelous thing, because, although I knew the gate was open, and not to tilt the board too far, but with hindsight, it would have been good to check the CPU was still in it's "groove". Sadly, as I'd opened the gate, the CPU had obviously bound to it enough to lift it out of it's recess. It slid out. I grabbed for it by reflect and caught it.
PHEW!
BUT, where I'd stopped it, the trailing corner, with the pressure of my catching it,had snagged a pin on the LGA.
Me heart is broke.
I've built 3 boxes for other people who wanted intels, with LGA sockets, never had any problems. The first one I built, I even did the noob thing of "WTF's this about.....(PROD)" and the pins bounced back.
Yet now, in an attempt to build an intel box for myself, I have through a combination of crappy luck and downright darwin award winning mental deficiency[1] destroyed five hundred bills worth of motherboards.
Y'know, I could deal with it, if I was a total beginner at this. You may think from some of my posts that I'm not much of an old hand, but the truth is, I never had much cash, so always knocked up el-cheapo, clock-me-and-i-die AMD boards, so the whole wide world of clocking the knackers off a Q6600 is totally new to me. As I said I built intel LGA boxen before, no worries, easy peasy lemon squeezy, despite me being a clinically cack-handed clown. Yet on THE most expensive rig I've ever bought, I manage to 'tard it up a total and complete treat.
The StrikerII is defo FUBAR, toast, 3 pins, mid-array, buckled.
But the gigabyte has only one deformed pin, on the inner edge of the array, and setting the CPU on it gently, seemed to partially re-allign it. I am now debating whether closing the gate on it will completely allign it, or smash it into 4 other pins and make a 90% borked board into a 2nd brightly coloured rooftyle for may collection.
Appearing soon (whenever I've been here long enough) on a MM near you, one strikerIIExtreme and one gigabyte something or other (brain in some kind of denial), suitable for parts, Indian street corner repairmen and lost cause suckers only.
I think there's something fundamental here.
Me+Intel=FAIL!
[1]in mitigation I'm painkillered up to the eyeballs quite a lot of the time, but it's only mitigation, not an excuse.
