Against all odds

[Campusto]

I have to share this with you, it just boggles my mind that my "trash build" is ACTUALLY working! 

 

So, I was given a 6700K that was bent on two edges of the chip (about 20deg angle) and a motherboard that had (/have) bent pins (and a GTX980 + 16GB memory which are undamaged).

I used a needle to somewhat straighten the mobo pins (the socket still looks like crap) and just decided to try it. It works. How is it possible?   

To add to that, I didn't have any thermal paste available (the stores are closed for today), so I used toothpaste (cause I didn't think it'll work anyway). Idle temps at 40C and goes as high as (while playing The Orville, if you're interested) 100C (I'm guessing it's throttling, but still). Hasn't crashed once. I also ran a memory test, and got no errors.

 

I'll be replacing the toothpaste tomorrow with real thermal paste, but I just can't believe it works! It seems the tech is much more robust than I thought!

Linus might want to make a video of how far damaged stuff is still salvageable!  

 

[BlazerBuddy]

5 minutes ago, Campusto said:

I have to share this with you, it just boggles my mind that my "trash build" is ACTUALLY working! 

 

So, I was given a 6700K that was bent on two edges of the chip (about 20deg angle) and a motherboard that had (/have) bent pins (and a GTX980 + 16GB memory which are undamaged).

I used a needle to somewhat straighten the mobo pins (the socket still looks like crap) and just decided to try it. It works. How is it possible?   

To add to that, I didn't have any thermal paste available (the stores are closed for today), so I used toothpaste (cause I didn't think it'll work anyway). Idle temps at 40C and goes as high as (while playing The Orville, if you're interested) 100C (I'm guessing it's throttling, but still). Hasn't crashed once. I also ran a memory test, and got no errors.

 

I'll be replacing the toothpaste tomorrow with real thermal paste, but I just can't believe it works! It seems the tech is much more robust than I thought!

Linus might want to make a video of how far damaged stuff is still salvageable!  

 

Lol that is petty lucky. It is proven that tooth paste is a decent thermal paste so that isn't to impressive, still is XD. The real cool part is how you fixed the pins on the motherboard, that is really cool.

[Rybo]

42 minutes ago, Campusto said:

So, I was given a 6700K that was bent on two edges of the chip

 

It probably still works because there's nothing really important in the corners of most chips.  That's just extra surface area to dissipate heat.  Obviously they're not impervious to corner damage, but if a chip is going to take a few knocks, the corner is the best place to take 'em.  

Probably don't do that to threadrippers, though.  Their cores are actually arranged pretty close to the corners, so you're much more likely to damage the chip that way.  

[AndrewZScorpion]

5 minutes ago, Rybo said:

Probably don't do that to threadrippers, though.  Their cores are actually arranged pretty close to the corners, so you're much more likely to damage the chip that way. 

The only two people that would ever drop a threadripper are Linus and JayzTwoCents

[Campusto]

If anybody is interested, this is the finished trashbuild, took out the 980 and put in a 1050ti. Total cost to me: 6,90 EUR (the thermalpaste).