People including myself sometimes forget how delicate and precise this type of work is. The microscope makes us forget how tiny and delicate these compones are and the skill required.
Every time Alex says, "we did an amazing job," I sit back and say to myself in smug self satisfaction, "yes, _WE_ did do an amazing job, didn't we?" as if I helped lol
You are an inspiration to me, and I reckon for many of your subs, I've been working repairing consoles for years, I'm self-taught and studying to improve, but a lot of my current knowledge comes from reading forums and watching videos, especially yours. I am from Argentina, a real fan of your work, I hope one day to be as good and intuitive as you for this work, a hug, I would like to donate, but here the dollar is extremely expensive, greetings and congratulations for each of your works, successful or not, they are excellent, and a greeting to Big Boss, who helps a lot in your day to day work.
@@DanMlayah I see more damaged sockets than cpus. But that is at least partially cause Intel has much more marketshare than amd. I'd also think tho it's speculation that ppl tend to have more success fixing bent cpu pins than socket pins. I see a lot of sockets where the customer made things worse trying to fix it himself. Whereas that's not as common on cpus. Bent cpu pins are much easier to test. If you can get into Windows and run a stress test for an hour with no issues they are *generally* fixed. Damaged sockets lead to more intermittent crashing and just weird bugginess that makes it harder to automate testing after repair. They are a lot more likely to end up back in the shop after a few weeks or months. I'm not entirely sure why this is, I suspect the mechanical aspect of how the sockets work on PGA versus lga. But it could well be due to the specific pins that are most often damaged. The amd chips tend to have damage around the edges and on pins involved in memory and data transfer. Damage to the Intel sockets tends to concentrate around the centre of the socket where the majority of pins are supplying power.
Yeah, there's also one near the center of the CPU at 7:32. Gotta freeze frame to see it. It looks like it would probably still fit in the socket though.
@@Anthony_The_Chicken_Licker Scientist spotter spotted. Is spotting scientists also considered a science? P.S.: Not trying to offend. Just don’t take everything in the world too serious…
Just use the Intel socket p processors as donor and cut the length with good quality sidecutters. Pin diameter and the size of the base is more important IMO.
You could totally cut the excess length of the pin with no ill effects (other than it looking non stock) The socket contacts the pin from the side, not from the bottom, so it will still contact a nice, low resistance gold plating
When the CPU is locked with the retention lever, its pins are pushed agains the narrowing pins of the cpu socket: external-preview.redd.it/_AwW2TXbEVVwcnknD7lP9vHmLE_-rWF7neY4gXsHUuM.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=6b94af6e89a47801ddb820a6225729a7c01dca9b
I was worried for a second that you where tempted to cut the pin down. That wouldn't be the best idea, since these pins are gold plated, and cutting them may allow contaminates to enter and cause corrosion/oxidation. Great repair, good job! I think you may have broken a Turion collector's heart though ;)
I wonder if my old one haha, I managed to completely knacker a new 3700x when installing an aio....it slipped off my desk and dragged it out of the socket. I couldn't be arsed to fix and sold for around £100
How do you avoide to blow away the pins next to the one you want? I tried this once and did not work that well. Was even hard to even solder flowing with 450 degree celsius.
Hi Alex, great videos, you have taught me so much in the time I have been watching. I have a question regarding air temperature and flow rate for changing the pins on the cpu. I have been trying but I can't seem to find the sweet spot. Many thanks.
I hadn't considered that pins were simply soldered into place like that. Could have saved hundreds on CPUs I tossed out over the years due to missing one or two pins.
@@overnightdelivery I did observe that he's using a microscope here, so I understand it not being super easy to do like through-hole soldering. Still though, the fact that it's feasible at all shocked me!
Yeah, Moore's law can't be applied anymore. Nowadays you can daily drive 10-15 years old computers without any issues at all. I use an 2011 Thinkpad x220.
@@madkvideo Moore's law seems to be picking up traction lately though. Who ever knew that consumers chips would be coming with 16 cores and 32 threads and clock up to 5.5ghz without any overclock?
Have you ever fixed a GPU that is displaying a bit bad textures? Or any hint? My GPU is getting bad, I suspect is the Vram however there's no traditional texture corruption, what's going on is specially alpha transparency is getting a bit pixelated like very low resolution, but all the textures show normal without corruption, all tests the GPU passes, Vram detects no errors, it just all went kind a bit low resolution and it's not software related as I already tried even a new windows installation with many different driver versions and using DDU to fully clean them... It's a old AMD RX580 and actually even on day one it already had problems with alpha textures but I have seen many with the exact same problem across many gens and AMD doesn't add them to known problem list, but now mine really got worse a few days ago while it worked the same for years since I got it new back on release year...
wonder if you could take the two cpu's and put them together facing each other ( like a sandwich with pins in the middle ) to check for pin length before proceeding?
AAAGGGGGHHHH you didn't show how you removed the broken nub left on the cpu! This is the hardest part for me, they just don't seem to want to come off!!!!
Hot tweezers can work. But it can go bad in ways the hot air doesn't. Hot air is def the best method if you have the proper tools and the steady hand to do it quickly. It stresses the CPU and the other pins less.
He said he doesn't have the time right now. He's considering limiting the number of orders the store will accept at once to reduce his work load and give him time to do workshops and stuff again. But it won't be any time particularly soon I suspect.
Any plans of having a video editor take some load off of your shoulders, so you can just record the videos, send them over and have them edit and send you back
People including myself sometimes forget how delicate and precise this type of work is. The microscope makes us forget how tiny and delicate these compones are and the skill required.
Youre absolutly right. I try to remember myself most every Video how tiny the pieces are.
Every time Alex says, "we did an amazing job," I sit back and say to myself in smug self satisfaction, "yes, _WE_ did do an amazing job, didn't we?" as if I helped lol
That microscope has got some serious magnification. it makes CPU pins look fat
Does this magnification make me look fat?
No... it just magnifies your beauty baby. ☺
@@overnightdelivery damn Xdddd Jones Bobby
Posted around 3:30 AM Las Angeles time. Alex never sleeps. This man is a machine.
You are an inspiration to me, and I reckon for many of your subs, I've been working repairing consoles for years, I'm self-taught and studying to improve, but a lot of my current knowledge comes from reading forums and watching videos, especially yours. I am from Argentina, a real fan of your work, I hope one day to be as good and intuitive as you for this work, a hug, I would like to donate, but here the dollar is extremely expensive, greetings and congratulations for each of your works, successful or not, they are excellent, and a greeting to Big Boss, who helps a lot in your day to day work.
ONCE AGAIN GREAT JOB ALEX. LOVE FROM INDIA
U have no idea how many hours a week I spend straightening pins on cpus and sockets lol. Good work.
which is usually more common ? bent pins on CPUs or Sockets ?
I found credit card to be the best tool to straighten pins, if they are slightly bent.
@@DanMlayah I see more damaged sockets than cpus. But that is at least partially cause Intel has much more marketshare than amd. I'd also think tho it's speculation that ppl tend to have more success fixing bent cpu pins than socket pins. I see a lot of sockets where the customer made things worse trying to fix it himself. Whereas that's not as common on cpus.
Bent cpu pins are much easier to test. If you can get into Windows and run a stress test for an hour with no issues they are *generally* fixed. Damaged sockets lead to more intermittent crashing and just weird bugginess that makes it harder to automate testing after repair. They are a lot more likely to end up back in the shop after a few weeks or months. I'm not entirely sure why this is, I suspect the mechanical aspect of how the sockets work on PGA versus lga. But it could well be due to the specific pins that are most often damaged. The amd chips tend to have damage around the edges and on pins involved in memory and data transfer. Damage to the Intel sockets tends to concentrate around the centre of the socket where the majority of pins are supplying power.
Man, you have a very steady hand!
Well done, you are the best at what you do
I was speechless. You are a very talented man. You are my idol.
This takes big balls and lots of skill. Made to look so easy!
Never realized CPU pins could be removed like that
me neither
Same here, you learn something new everyday.
Thats a great work,what a steady hands you have
From here looks easy...amazing job, very nice!
Best soldering I have seen in TH-cam
The moment you join a new class in a foreign country. 👥😜
1:16 I can see at least 5 bend Pins in the left corner
Yeah, there's also one near the center of the CPU at 7:32. Gotta freeze frame to see it. It looks like it would probably still fit in the socket though.
Scientist spotted
Of course he already fix it off the camera
@@Anthony_The_Chicken_Licker Scientist spotter spotted. Is spotting scientists also considered a science? P.S.: Not trying to offend. Just don’t take everything in the world too serious…
@@marcianzero_yt LOL.
That was great, enjoyable and fun to watch.
Wouldn't the cost of the repair and shipping cost more than the CPU?? You make the repair look easy, true skills right here 👍
Didn't know you could do that....nice work
Just use the Intel socket p processors as donor and cut the length with good quality sidecutters. Pin diameter and the size of the base is more important IMO.
good job mate.
Brilliant job
You could totally cut the excess length of the pin with no ill effects (other than it looking non stock)
The socket contacts the pin from the side, not from the bottom, so it will still contact a nice, low resistance gold plating
When the CPU is locked with the retention lever, its pins are pushed agains the narrowing pins of the cpu socket: external-preview.redd.it/_AwW2TXbEVVwcnknD7lP9vHmLE_-rWF7neY4gXsHUuM.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=6b94af6e89a47801ddb820a6225729a7c01dca9b
I think it would be very difficult to achieve a precise cut on a pin so small
Good job! Amazing work..
Amazing intricate work
Absolutely amazing 👌👌
That was so satisfying
I was worried for a second that you where tempted to cut the pin down. That wouldn't be the best idea, since these pins are gold plated, and cutting them may allow contaminates to enter and cause corrosion/oxidation. Great repair, good job! I think you may have broken a Turion collector's heart though ;)
Seen a lot of videos of ppl trying to fix bend or missing pins and failing hard, and for Alex this was just friday
Great job that looked hard
I wonder if my old one haha, I managed to completely knacker a new 3700x when installing an aio....it slipped off my desk and dragged it out of the socket. I couldn't be arsed to fix and sold for around £100
Nice work.
I think this related to they are for different cpu socket.
No bowling ball for these pins. Nice work.
epic mechanic...
Great job. I hope for a good packaging but i think you do, before other pins get bent. Greetw
very good keep it up i am learning a lot from you at which temperature u kept the heat gun
Indeed rl amazing job ! Done in 120s :).
небольшой загиб я бы не трогал. Сокет сам его выровняет. Проверено на своем. Главное чтобы залезал.
Whats Is the soldering aport anda microscop thechnical references
Awesome ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
يعطيك العافيه
How do you avoide to blow away the pins next to the one you want? I tried this once and did not work that well. Was even hard to even solder flowing with 450 degree celsius.
Hi Alex, great videos, you have taught me so much in the time I have been watching. I have a question regarding air temperature and flow rate for changing the pins on the cpu. I have been trying but I can't seem to find the sweet spot. Many thanks.
Putting an Intel processor pin on a AMD processor is funny business :D nice one Alex!
intel cpu has no pin on the processor itself.everything was on the mainboard.
the best!!!
very nice Vedio ☮️👍
I hadn't considered that pins were simply soldered into place like that. Could have saved hundreds on CPUs I tossed out over the years due to missing one or two pins.
Unfortunately due to how dainty and tiny the pins are, repair is not easy at all unless your experienced.
@@overnightdelivery I did observe that he's using a microscope here, so I understand it not being super easy to do like through-hole soldering. Still though, the fact that it's feasible at all shocked me!
Amazing what’s actually fixable
Salam from Malaysia
I like how you call that donor CPU an antique because it's from 2009. I am watching this video on a desktop with a CPU from 2008 (Intel i7 920)
Yeah, Moore's law can't be applied anymore. Nowadays you can daily drive 10-15 years old computers without any issues at all. I use an 2011 Thinkpad x220.
@@madkvideo Moore's law seems to be picking up traction lately though. Who ever knew that consumers chips would be coming with 16 cores and 32 threads and clock up to 5.5ghz without any overclock?
It does not work if you cut it shorter?
There is a mouse cursor on this video. But otherwise, excellent job!!
Have you ever fixed a GPU that is displaying a bit bad textures? Or any hint?
My GPU is getting bad, I suspect is the Vram however there's no traditional texture corruption, what's going on is specially alpha transparency is getting a bit pixelated like very low resolution, but all the textures show normal without corruption, all tests the GPU passes, Vram detects no errors, it just all went kind a bit low resolution and it's not software related as I already tried even a new windows installation with many different driver versions and using DDU to fully clean them...
It's a old AMD RX580 and actually even on day one it already had problems with alpha textures but I have seen many with the exact same problem across many gens and AMD doesn't add them to known problem list, but now mine really got worse a few days ago while it worked the same for years since I got it new back on release year...
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wonder if you could take the two cpu's and put them together facing each other ( like a sandwich with pins in the middle ) to check for pin length before proceeding?
of course we enjoyed it , good like usuall
why amd is still stuck on pga??
More of stuff like this please. Too many Apple repairs.
Better than factory mah boy
Hello from malaysia
Didn't know this is even possible.
why do you not accept paypal in the store? want to buy a bunch of stuff but no credit card.
the donor cpu is Intel Core i3-2350M
damn is that intel cpu pin on amd?
Intel Core i3-2350m is the cpu you want to know its a mobile cpu thats why it haves pins instead of lga socket
Other question is is the cpu usable for an 5900x? I want to try to make it itself last time i do that it was an lga socket pin
Dropping video at 3AM; you areworking hard 👍. Thank You.
AAAGGGGGHHHH you didn't show how you removed the broken nub left on the cpu! This is the hardest part for me, they just don't seem to want to come off!!!!
I feel I'm getting better at this type of work since "we" are doing an amazing job... Lol.
most of these cpus will boot with missing pins ive had a 3600 boot with 3 missing pins and several cpus boot with 1 missing
Malaysia is in asia, it’s a country.
really good sh1t man. you could be a neurosurgeon
Just curious - since the pin was on a corner, would it have been possible to use the hot tweezers instead of hot air?
Hot tweezers can work. But it can go bad in ways the hot air doesn't. Hot air is def the best method if you have the proper tools and the steady hand to do it quickly. It stresses the CPU and the other pins less.
long live my LGA 1150 .LONG LIVE INTEL SOCKET.
I NEED HP ELITEBOOK 840 G3 BIOS CHIPS PLEASE HELP ME, IM FROM INDIA
Day 15 of letting Alex know i live in southern California and may be able to help with his work load
I am from Malaysia, as what city that cpu produced i believe it was from Penang State.
the second donor cpu is a i3 2350m, nothing special XD and surely old
Any news about learning workshop ?
He said he doesn't have the time right now. He's considering limiting the number of orders the store will accept at once to reduce his work load and give him time to do workshops and stuff again. But it won't be any time particularly soon I suspect.
great job alex ...
Any plans of having a video editor take some load off of your shoulders, so you can just record the videos, send them over and have them edit and send you back
Didn't clean flux off
Came in for broken pin
Good job bro♥️🌹
nice repairs
Hello 👋, a quite common issues if cpu installation not properly done.
hi I have a very good experience in Laptop Repair
Self care is important get some rest please
Nice 👍
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