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HELP! New Q6600 has no pins!

Greebo

Greebo

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Just received my 2nd hand Q6600 low vid chip yesterday and was shocked to discover it had no pins :eek:

Shows how long I've been out of the Intel game since I've had AMD setups for the last 7 years.

I thought I had been conned until I googled some pictures to check! :p

When did Intel stop putting pins on the cpu then?
 
:p since the introduction of lga775 lol. so what, about 2 1/2 years i think

edit: actually, closer to 3 1/2 years by the look of it
 
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When they moved to the LGA775 socket - so late Pentium 4 days.

If you look on the motherboard, you should find all the pins in the socket there. :)
 
Tute said:
When they moved to the LGA775 socket - so late Pentium 4 days.

If you look on the motherboard, you should find all the pins in the socket there. :)
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Not got motherboard yet. Arrived this morning and sat at home waiting for me.

New build planned for this weekend so long as memory arrives tomorrow as expected.

Should be fun learning all this complicated Intel bios overclocking stuff. Life was simplier in the old days ;)
 
Ah it's not that bad.

It's still...

- Select FSB
- Select multi
- Boot up
- If not stable, add some voltage to RAM and/or CPU.
- Watch the temps.

If I can do it, so can you! :)
 
^ in basics... just be sure to watch the temps, and read up on the stickies or post if you're not confident, stuck, or you don't know what you're doing...

We'll be here for you: take that Q to the skies :D
 
It was one of Intel's smarter moves, no pins = no bent/damaged pin returns. Now its just the pins/legs on the mainboards sockets that get damaged not Intel's problem (unless one of thier own brand boards).
 
nightmare99 said:
It was one of Intel's smarter moves, no pins = no bent/damaged pin returns. Now its just the pins/legs on the mainboards sockets that get damaged not Intel's problem (unless one of thier own brand boards).
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Yeah it's been a really good idea. I've damaged two CPUs in my lifetime through bent/snapped pins, but i've never had trouble with the actual socket.
 
Greebo I found overclocking this board just as easy (maybe easier) than my DFI LanParty Ultra-D and x2 3800 @ 2.8Ghz and RAM. I bought this CPU and ran 3.2Ghz from first boot with my RAM on 1:1. Had to up the volts a little to get it stable. It wasn't failing in anything else other than prime though but still.... I wanted that problem gone :). I've pushed up to 3.5Ghz but haven't done a prime yet so I'm back at 3.2Ghz until I can be bothered priming for 8-12 hours.

I hope your stuff has came today and you can get cracking on with building your new machine :). You'll find it easy. Just disable E1st and C1E to render speedstep useless and you're good to go.
 
Cheers JD. No memory arrived today so can't build until Tuesday night :(

Oh well, one last weeked with my my baby AMD setup. DFI board already sold so I must disassemble and get ready for shipping on Tuesday.
 
nightmare99 said:
It was one of Intel's smarter moves, no pins = no bent/damaged pin returns. Now its just the pins/legs on the mainboards sockets that get damaged not Intel's problem (unless one of thier own brand boards).
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It was great for the consumer when chips were more expensive than the motherboard you'd put them in. But now in the age of the E21xx series where you can pick up a monster chip for about £50-£60, the motherboard is more expensive.

So unless you're buying a top of the range quad-core, it's more cost effective bust the pins on the chip than on the motherboard.:p
 
Greebo said:
Cheers JD. No memory arrived today so can't build until Tuesday night :(

Oh well, one last weeked with my my baby AMD setup. DFI board already sold so I must disassemble and get ready for shipping on Tuesday.
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Ach :(.

Well give her a good sending off (loads of games for the PC and a take away or two for you ;) :D).

Did you have the Ultra-D also?.
 
No only ever had the expert. Cracking board and the best for amd.

The previous amd board I had to it would only get my 4200+ to 2.5Ghz. The DFI expert got me to 3Ghz 24/7

I might spend a bit of time running game/synthetic benchmarks. Just to see how much better my new Intel setup is in comparison
 
Greebo said:
Just received my 2nd hand Q6600 low vid chip yesterday and was shocked to discover it had no pins :eek:

Shows how long I've been out of the Intel game since I've had AMD setups for the last 7 years.

I thought I had been conned until I googled some pictures to check! :p

When did Intel stop putting pins on the cpu then?
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Pins are all on the motherboard now, which I think it a lot better :)
 
speedy2004 said:
Whats the diff with having the pins on the board or cpu, cos they still can get bend nomatter what way you look at it?
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Exactly, it's like I was saying above.

If you buy expensive CPUs, ie: quad cores then by bending pins on the mobo you probably waste less having to buy a new one than a new chip. But if you buy an E2140 and bend the pins on the mobo then you've wasted a lot more (relatively).

But meh, it makes little difference.:p
 
speedy2004 said:
Whats the diff with having the pins on the board or cpu, cos they still can get bend nomatter what way you look at it?
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Not to us, but to Intel it does.
Bent pins on CPU = RMA to Intel.
Bent pins on motherboard = RMA to Intel only if Intel mobo, otherwise not their problem. Thus less overhead to Intel / higher costs to mobo makers.
 
Having no pins on the cpu also provides a much more reliable solution for people using 24/7 phase. Gone are the days when you would remove your CPU only to find every single pin has stayed in the socket due to solder joint fatigue caused by extreme low temps.

I doubt many of us have had that problem though :rolleyes:
 
Pins hidden away inside a mobo, and usually shipped under a little shield thing, are far less likely to get mangled I'd imagine.

Still doesn't seem quite right though does it.



Hesky, noticin your sigpic,,,,,,play GPL at all?
 
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