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On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 13:51:31 GMT Taiidan@×××.com wrote: |
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> I purchased a used g34 opteron off of fleabay (sold as working with no |
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> mention of this) and I noticed that it is missing some of the bits on |
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> the bottom |
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Do you mean the pins that mate with the socket? |
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> ... and that most of them are crooked, |
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Send it back! Don't even touch it. Any attempt to straighten a pin will snap |
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it off, as like as not. |
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--->8 |
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> I noticed many CPU's sold on ebay have this issue (in those cases they |
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> mentioned it) but I can't understand how it happens, for instance I |
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> noticed a 6386 for sale where they mentioned that it was missing a few |
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> and because of that it doesn't work in a dual socket configuration. |
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Sometimes a CPU chip comes out faulty in the specific respect that it can't |
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operate in SMP, so those pins are removed and the chip is sold as a |
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monoprocessor. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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