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Maheshvara
By Maheshvara
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Okay, my father just, for some crazy reason, brought me an old 2002 Celeron CPU clocked at 1.7 GHz...  And since:

 

- It's a very, very old CPU

- It has bent pins from him carrying it in his pocket

- I can't be assed to revive it (finding a mobo isn't a problem), i thought i would do this

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So, is it dangerous to do it O.o

I'm 99.9% sure that it isn't, since the CPU doesn't have any current running through it, but i just thought about checking with you guys.

Also, if i put this on my phone, which i might actually do, since i have a case and a mat screen protector, is there a way to fix those pins so they don't scratch them O.o Maybe use silicone?

If anyone has done this, can they help me with their advice O.o

Thanks in advance :)

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It's not dangerous, just make sure you get rid of the pins on the bottom if the CPU has any. 

 

Cut em off, sand em off, do what you have to. 

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It's not dangerous unless it is plugged in or hits anything electric. Also it's pretty swag as a keyring :)

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I usually see other people flatten their pins to get around that.

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It's not dangerous, just make sure you get rid of the pins on the bottom if the CPU has any. 

 

Cut em off, sand em off, do what you have to.

Like i said, i'd like to keep them, for the looks, so i thought about securing them somehow? Maybe covering them with a see through silicone O.o Since for me those pins are a very important part of a CPU :D

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It will all be fine, but get rid of the pins, they can also scratch things.

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It's not dangerous unless it is plugged in or hits anything electric. Also it's pretty swag as a keyring :)

I know, it'd look so cool, to the people who understand what it is (which oddly are very few among my friends....), but to the people who don't, it'd still look rather interesting :)

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It's not dangerous as long as you do something so that the pins won't poke somebody.

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It will all be fine, but get rid of the pins, they can also scratch things.

 

Like i said, i'd like to keep them, for the looks, so i thought about securing them somehow? Maybe covering them with a see through silicone O.o Since for me those pins are a very important part of a CPU :D

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Like i said, i'd like to keep them :) They are a very iconic part of a CPU :) Like how that home button is to an iPhone :)

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Wait.. You said Celeron CPU and it says AMD on the chip...?

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Wait.. You said Celeron CPU and it says AMD on the chip...?

That's only a random pic from Google... It's obvious i still haven't done it :) I plan on doing something similar, that's either going to my keychain or my phone :D

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it's okay to manually fix the bend pins i guess, here's an old video from linus as an inspiration..

 

 

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AFAIK there are some elements used in component manufacturing that are dangerous to humans, not sure if that is the case with modern CPU's, not sure if it ever was.

That is the only risk I can think of.

As far as i am concerned doing that isn't any more dangerous than having a regular metal bottle opener. 

 

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it's okay to manually fix the bend pins i guess, here's an old video from linus as an inspiration..

 

 

I'm familiar with fixing bent pins... I also saw Linus's video about fixing a pin on a I7 extreme edition or 12/24 core/thread Xeon :) But i want to keep them and make them NOT scratch my phone (or tear my trousers) :D

 

 

AFAIK there are some elements used in component manufacturing that are dangerous to humans, not sure if that is the case with modern CPU's, not sure if it ever was.

That is the only risk I can think of.

As far as i am concerned doing that isn't any more dangerous than having a regular metal bottle opener. 

Yeah, i know that some electrical components have some dangerous materials, but i THINK that CPU's shouldn't have any of those... :)

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It'll be fine, nothing that can leak, explode, etc. 

 

I'd keep the pins on - you could "plug" it into someone's forehead if they annoy you ;) (just kidding)

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It'll be fine, nothing that can leak, explode, etc. 

 

I'd keep the pins on - you could "plug" it into someone's forehead if they annoy you ;) (just kidding)

Yeah, i know that some stuff can go all Johnny Storm on you from all that friction, and it seems CPU's won't :) I'll do it as soon as i can :)

 

Yeah, i plan on keeping those pins, but then i'll definitely only get to hang them on my keychain, not on my phone :)

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You know you are a techie when...

I wouldn't call myself a 100% techie... :( I'm still not as familiar with software as i want to be.... :(

 

I just think it would look so cool (i'm still wondering why people are not wearing stuff like this) :)

 

I also planned on doing this to my old AMD socket 478 CPU, but it would look uglier than this... 

 

Also noticed that this CPU has 1.75V...

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