Failed delidding attempt on a 4460

[TeeTwo]

I decided to try and delid the 4460 that i had laying around today (didnt use it very often), and, well, failed.

I got the IHS off fairly easily, but went a bit too rough with my razor as i were getting it off.

 

And ill just say it here now while im writing this that you shouldnt try to delid ANYTHING you can/will/are actively using without practice.

Just dont.

 

And, heres my results.

10x magnification of south-west corner. Scraped all the way to the east corner. The north, west and east sides are unharmed (apart from the southern tipps)

4x magnification on what i belive are...chokes? Whatever they are, 2 of them are gone now.

I dont know what is more dumb: the fact that i tried delidding without practice on old hardware, or that i tried to "repair" the cpu by soldering two small wires to the contact points.

Ill have a poll for this.

 

Tl;dr This is why you practice on old hardware first, kids.

[Sakkura]

Those are surface mount capacitors.

[glitchmaster0001]

i just made a NOOB mistake and dropped my cpu into a lga 1366 socket and bent some pins. luckly i was able to bend them back to that the board would post now. im unsure if it is fully stable though. i guess only time will tell now...

[TeeTwo]

Just now, DEcobra11 said:

So you decided to delid [a locked] haswell refresh...? why?

Because im stupid and the "Why? Its: Why not?" logic in my thinking.

 

1 minute ago, Sakkura said:

Those are surface mount capacitors.

Ah, ok. Thanks.

[DevilishBooster]

Don't know why you would bother trying to de-lid that particular CPU, but it looks to me like you just rushed the work.

[TheHiddenCreeper]

hey its better than me 

 

i had a fan and tried to touch the wires to the fan connector of a 1366 board and i shorted it out and 

my board started to catch fire but i put it out

 

now i have a i7 975x  with a toast mb

[TeeTwo]

Just now, DevilishBooster said:

Don't know why you would bother trying to de-lid that particular CPU, but it looks to me like you just rushed the work.

And that i did, cant argue with that without lying.

[Sakkura]

I voted 2 because soldering them definitely ensured something would break. Capacitors block DC and allow AC to pass, so replacing capacitors with solder means you're making DC short circuits.

 

Option 1 is a perfectly viable choice too though.

[TeeTwo]

1 minute ago, TheHiddenCreeper said:

hey its better than me 

 

i had a fan and tried to touch the wires to the fan connector of a 1366 board and i shorted it out and 

my board started to catch fire but i put it out

 

now i have a i7 975x  with a toast mb

I think the mobo is the cheap part.

Luckily, a new 4460 wont put me back alot.

Just now, Sakkura said:

I voted 2 because soldering them definitely ensured something would break. Capacitors block DC and allow AC to pass, so replacing capacitors with solder means you're making DC short circuits.

 

Option 1 is a perfectly viable choice too though.

Hence why i made a poll of it, i were highly unsure.

[TheHiddenCreeper]

Just now, TeeTwo said:

I think the mobo is the cheap part.

Luckily, a new 4460 wont put me back alot.

Hence why i made a poll of it, i were highly unsure.

im not sure if you were talking about x58 boards as they range from 150 to 300 dollars at the most 

[jameshumphries47]

2 minutes ago, TeeTwo said:

I think the mobo is the cheap part.

Luckily, a new 4460 wont put me back alot.

Hence why i made a poll of it, i were highly unsure.

you live and learn mate, on an unrelated topic, i see you have a kart in your profile picture. Do you race, if so what kart, because i do too. I race a prokart with either gx160 or 200's depends where i am racing?

[NumLock21]

I find that most people on this forum seems to follow what others are doing without thinking it through.

Dual Xeon gaming build

Delidding CPU

Socket 775 gaming rig on the cheap

771 to 775 mod

If one says best place to setup a gaming rig is on the ledge of a suspension bridge, 99.9999% of forum members here will most likely do it. And we'll have a ton of "best bridge to setup gaming rig" topics.

 

[TeeTwo]

4 minutes ago, TheHiddenCreeper said:

im not sure if you were talking about x58 boards as they range from 150 to 300 dollars at the most 

Ok that could be expensive as hell today.

 

3 minutes ago, jameshumphries47 said:

you live and learn mate, on an unrelated topic, i see you have a kart in your profile picture. Do you race, if so what kart, because i do too. I race a prokart with either gx160 or 200's depends where i am racing?

That is an old picture (5 years) of me, i were driving the so called "Mini/R95" class in Sweden.

I dont race anymore since the following year i were too tall to fit into even the longest of chassis.

[jameshumphries47]

1 minute ago, TeeTwo said:

Ok that could be expensive as hell today.

 

That is an old picture (5 years) of me, i were driving the so called "Mini/R95" class in Sweden.

oh nice, do you still race?

[TeeTwo]

Just now, jameshumphries47 said:

oh nice, do you still race?

Nope, im too tall and heavy to be competitive and it got too expensive.

Hunting, gaming and PC's is my go-to hobby now.