Ever drop a CPU and still use it?
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 11:00 pm
When I was building my latest computer, I dropped the CPU (i7-870) into the case, and it bounced a couple of times on the motherboard. I cursed, but still finished the build. The contacts on the bottom of the CPU appeared unharmed.
It worked fine, pretty much, tho' I am returning the motherboard for some tweaky behavior (random network shutoffs, mostly, but a few other things). It passed an overnight run of memtest86+ just fine, however, and I installed Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 on it, no problems.
I would *think* that if something was going to have gone wrong from my dropping the processor, it would go wrong CATASTROPHICALLY, and not just have something pop up unexpectedly suddenly or from time to time.
Anyone ever drop a CPU, and it failed *later* (as opposed to right away)?
- Tim
It worked fine, pretty much, tho' I am returning the motherboard for some tweaky behavior (random network shutoffs, mostly, but a few other things). It passed an overnight run of memtest86+ just fine, however, and I installed Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 on it, no problems.
I would *think* that if something was going to have gone wrong from my dropping the processor, it would go wrong CATASTROPHICALLY, and not just have something pop up unexpectedly suddenly or from time to time.
Anyone ever drop a CPU, and it failed *later* (as opposed to right away)?
- Tim