Bro, this is stupid as hell. Look at CPU pinout scheme and try to cut some important pins like BaseCLOCK or cache clock, it will die INSTANTLY. Why the hell do you want it? Just for show? Ok, he could make a video with cutting a double-supplied pins like ground or VCC, it will work pretty good, but wtf bro. This is ain't a science experiment, the amount of "last time" greatly depends on a importance of a single pin.
it completely depends on what that pin does, many are power and ground pins, those you can lose a few of, if however you lose one of the more important pins, you can lose memory channels, PCIe channels, or even prevent the computer from booting.
Well luckily you can just install a pin in the missing slot on the motherboard from a donor CPU and it will works just fine. Been doing this for years - it’s how I get my current gen CPUs for really cheap. I’ll never buy a new one again.
@@olafec What, just solder a new pin on? Or heat it up and stick it on there? I remember a video where someone discovered a seller from China removing laptop CPUs and making them desktop-compatible which was pretty wild.
Grounding in the sense of the cpu is basically the negative terminal of a battery. The electricity has to have a complete circuit, and the ground is the end point
@@SamuelLobo01230 My i5 is a 4th gen i think its 4590. But its still way better then my fx6300 and that a fact. Corona got me messed up not being able to work anymore and things like that so i gotta go step by step sadly
I have a computer on socket 775. Some of the socket pins were bent, but I bent them out. And one pin broke off due to the fact that it was bent very much. But I checked in the datasheet what this pin is responsible for, and I was lucky that it was responsible for powering the processor. Since the power pins are duplicated several times, I put the processor in the socket and after assembling the computer, it started. Now it still works without this pin.
@@ronnie3626 Exactly. I'm gonna make such retro PC for playing Harry Potter and other old games. I also have a CPU with a missing pin though -- Ryzen 5 1600X. I really hope it will work because it's really powerful.
I was installing a zen2 CPU and I had a stock prism cooler with the 2 metal hooks. I couldn't get the cooler to clip correctly and actually pulled the CPU out of the socket with the thermal paste, and ended up pushing the pins into the plastic socket housing. Bent like 30 pins on the CPU and straightened them. After about 2 hours of painstakingly pushing and inspecting I got it to seat, and it works fine. Haven't pulled it back out since.
I saw this video a while ago from my recommended, thank you for it. Tonight I did a horrible job of installing a new heatsink (I didn't mount the cpu correctly), when I got around to bending the pins back into place I ended up knocking one of the outer ones out. If I didn't see this before I probably would've freaked out and immediately ordered a new one, but I went ahead with the installation anyway and everything works fine. Great work 👍
@@TheTinyTimmyTimTim A couple months ago I upgraded my PC, but that chip lasted me all the while (roughly 8 months); saw no issues whatsoever. If your question means you're facing a missing pin yourself, I could recommend giving it a shot. Best of luck if that's the case (or anyone facing this in the future - don't forget your grounding strap)!
This was my first ever CPU! It’s a “black” edition, or maybe they called it series, from way back in the day. It’s surprisingly a 6 core cpu too. I got it in a system from this really nice old gentleman, he knew what he was talking about too, I could tell he had been playing around with computers for decades, but he even gave me a full windows 10 install USB with the code, a monitor, keyboard, and a mouse for $280! The system had a 1050ti SSC, that guy helped start my love for computers. Anyways, I bent the pins on this exact cpu on accident since it was in my first PC, I straightened out all of the pins with a razor blade, and somehow it still worked 😂
story time: my dad was giving me his ryzen 5 (3rd gen) and i was giving my ryzen 7 (1st gen) to a server pc. after getting the ryzen 5, my pc would no longer post (my mobo has no header for a beeper speaker, so i relied on the monitor to show something). my dad, while taking his cooler off, had the 5 stick to the cooler, drop, and bend a pin. it was soon fixed by my dad and my pc is happily running win11, which was my hope.
many GND pins can be removed and you don't get any problems, some PCIe can be removed and it may make a GPU slower... or some RAM pins that will make impossible to dual channel to work...
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
It's no wonder this worked. There are three main regions of CPU pins. The power pins on the top and left, the memory pins on the right and PCIe and stuff on the bottom. Sometimes they overlap a bit. You cut a pin from the power region, so if it is a duplicate pin to that was put there for the CPU to draw more power, it will still work as expected. removed pins from the right or bottom side would be much worse.
Once, intel made a cpu line up (maybe just an i3 and I5) that you needed a gift voucher code to make the frequency higher, removing one pin would block off this limitation, and it will make your cpu as fast as if you got the coucher
@Jonathan Hoffman Long time ago IBM sold their computers fully populated with RAM and multiple CPUs. The idea was that if you needed more computing power, you could just call IBM with a phone and they would give instructions for enabling more RAM or CPUs and send a huge bill for their services. Of course, the machines were very expensive and every customer paid for full hardware even though they were not able to use it. Unsurprisingly, Intel and AMD were able to out-compete IBM everywhere else but rare mainframe users. Those users are willing to pay huge premium for mainframe features even today.
I don't think those VSS pins are redundent for each other, you might want to check the pin next to it , what it's function is.. maby you don't use that function..
There is a reason for multiple ground pins. Stable ground is needed across the chip, and a single pin alone cannot provide that. So if you lose one, it may seem to function normally but it is now less stable. It may only fail under very specific conditions.
You can cut off a lot of the grounding pins, and probably the RSVD pins as well (these are reserved pins). I think LTT tested a CPU once where certain pins were damaged, the CPU seemed to work fine at first but then they found that it was no longer able to recognize some of the memory banks.
I've seen just a couple of these videos but all of them contained "tricks", workarounds to the problem they were showing and complete lack of knowledge... I bet he wouldn't be able to even find one unless somebody slapped a pinout diagram in his face...
Years ago I broke 3 pins off of my Pentium 4 when changing the thermal paste. Still overclocked from 2.4 to 2.8ghz for a while. I think it eventually fried other components because one of my 256mb Mem sticks died, then the 9800xt Video card I got off of Ebay started doing weird stuff (was perfectly fine before the pin issue) .. Then I just eventually tossed it all in the dumpster because I was in the middle of moving. Many years of entertainment with that beast. xD
I once tested a CPU with a broken pin in a PC And the hard drive visibly sparked as soon as I started the PC and would not work any more. What could have caused this?
Could you tell more about "broken pin"? If it was bent and touching other pins, it might have been caused short circuit and if HDD had poor design, the short circuit caused it to get damaged.
Breaking the cpu pins was what caused the Xbox 360 infamous Red Ring of Death. the Xbox would get really hot around the pins. But when you turned off the system, it would get really cool. This would cause the pins to stretch and compress constantly. Which would result in the pins breaking
What happen when cutting the pins of a CPU ? Depends on exactly witch pin. May not have any effect if you cut one of the many ground pins that are normally internally interconnected, or could make it totally useless. Also, there are a few that are not connected to anything : The NC, N/C or N-C pins.
What if you woke up one day and realized all this computer stuff was just a long, long really long dream and you're actually a 19th century peasant with rotten teeth and a three legged dog named Wilbur?
I hate the idea of pushing bent pins back into place. I tried that with a VGA plug and the pin broke off. Which means even if you do manage to straighten the pin, it's likely there is a stress fracture that will wear over time, especially if there is vibration.
I've pushed hundreds of VGA pins back into place over decades, in commercial and educational settings. Sometimes, several pins were crushed in, bent at 90 degrees. If you're careful with needle nose pliers, you can get them straight, they're fairly forgiving. In fact, I've intentionally broken off pin14 recently to get a Compaq EISA VGA card to take a newer LCD - it took me a WHILE to fatigue the pin to the point of breaking (I had to twist it to finally break it). Unless you're using DSUB on a rocket ship, I wouldn't worry about vibration fatiguing a pin to the point of breaking lol. Your RAM and expansion cards would fall out/loosen first (I've seen this happen).
Yeah. Thats exactly what that means. Go do it now. You have absolutely nothing to lose. Its just a fun activity for when you are bored of your normal properly working cpu 😂😂😂😂
i remember when i was building my first PC my friend was super serial about not breaking one pin and i hold that with me forever. protect the processor with your life!
in 2008 I had an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Black Edition. I had it shipped (via army paid contractors) From The west coast to the east coast. I was into overclocking quite a bit back then. My cooler was large, heavy and wasn't supported properly for shipment, when I get it, the cpu had been pulled from the socket along with the cooler hanging due to 3k miles of travel sitting upright in a box and being poorly packed. A pin broke, I was super distraught, but decided to plug it in regardless and try. That CPU worked for another 4 years until I finally replaced it in 2012 with an intel 17 2600k, which I still have but don't use anymore. glad to see this is probably why it didn't die.
Many hundreds of these pins are for the current or power. They are connected in parallel to carry hundred Amperes of current. So nothing happens if you are too lucky to cut one of them. But if cut the signal or control pins, then you destroy it.
Not all ground pins are 'redundant' as a few comments are saying. They are in the sense that 'you can lose one or two and be fine', but there's more than just voltage at play. One comment mentioned marginally higher resistance (which is true) but other reasons for having as many ground pins as they do include reducing parasitic inductance and capacitance by shortening the electrical path between the crazy high frequencies (GHz = WiFi territory = RF = black magic), and ground which is needed for EMI/EMC certification; and also to some extent heat-sinking too. PCBs will have a ground plane which is just a giant sheet of copper, which will help wick away some of the heat as well as the actual dedicated heatsink. So yes, you can afford to lose a couple of ground pins, but there's a reason they were put there in the first place.
in terms of raw functionality, the CPU can now handle 100ma less current than before. so if one pin is broken for ground, it wont necessarily harm much. if you are worried, just solder on wire to the exposed padding and route it to the chassis.
I prefer PGA because while processors can be expensive, I prefer damaging that than damaging a motherboard. When I damaged the pins in an Intel motherboard, that was a PAIN to fix. But PGA are pretty easy to fix if it's only minor damage, and the pins dont snap off.
One time I accidentally knocked off a capacitor from the outer edge of a stick of RAM. It was a PNY DDR3 1600mhz 4GB stick. It still worked flawlessly after that accident.
