Re: [gentoo-user] [off topic] Opteron CPU missing chips on the bottom

[Dale]

Taiidan@×××.com wrote:
> On 01/30/2018 09:43 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 13:51:31 GMT Taiidan@×××.com wrote:
>>> I purchased a used g34 opteron off of fleabay (sold as working with no
>>> mention of this) and I noticed that it is missing some of the bits on
>>> the bottom
>> Do you mean the pins that mate with the socket?
>>
>>> ... and that most of them are crooked,
>> Send it back! Don't even touch it. Any attempt to straighten a pin
>> will snap
>> it off, as like as not.
> Not the pins (which on socket g34 are on the motherboard)
>
> It is the little IC components on the bottom of the CPU.
>
>


Could you attach a photo or a link to one?  Maybe seeing it wouold help.

Dale

:-)  :-)