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On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 10:02 AM, Taiidan@×××.com <Taiidan@×××.com> wrote: |
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> On 01/30/2018 09:43 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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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 |
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>> snap |
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>> it off, as like as not. |
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> Not the pins (which on socket g34 are on the motherboard) |
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> It is the little IC components on the bottom of the CPU. |
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You should return it, most of those components are decoupling |
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capacitors. Quickly switching power produces high frequency noise that |
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can migrate to other parts of the circuit and cause spurious logic |
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errors. |
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It probably plugs in and turns on but I would not accept such a part. |
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Cheers, |
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R0b0t1 |
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