On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 13:51:31 GMT taii...@gmx.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. --->8 > I noticed many CPU's sold on ebay have this issue (in those cases they > mentioned it) but I can't understand how it happens, for instance I > noticed a 6386 for sale where they mentioned that it was missing a few > and because of that it doesn't work in a dual socket configuration. Sometimes a CPU chip comes out faulty in the specific respect that it can't operate in SMP, so those pins are removed and the chip is sold as a monoprocessor. -- Regards, Peter.
