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.
When I was an intern in a computer store, I accidentally bent like 8 pins on a than Brand New AMD processor because I accidentally bumped it in to something while I was trying to place it on the motherboard. I spent about an hour trying to put the pins back in to place with a small knife and a small needle. But it worked flawlessly.
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
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.
Most pins are redundant power and ground pins. Not all of them could be electrically connected internally though, but it’s unlikely a single pin will be used. If you cut off an IO pin you would get a failure after just one.
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)!
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.
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 😂
@@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
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.
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.
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...
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.
Sometimes you have to cut pins off CPU! I've performed an upgrade on my ThinkPad T500 where I replaced the 2-core cpu with a 4-core CPU The upgrade requires soldering a jumper cable through the CPU socket, and removing 5 specific pins off the CPU, as well as a custom open-source BIOS called Libreboot (based on Coreboot) AFAIK, some of the pins are just used for testing the CPU, or burning the microcode on it, and im certain many pins are just extra and not used at all There is a tutorial in German on how to do this upgrade (I dont speak german, but did enough research on the project that I did it myself) and to my amazement it worked! Still using that laptop for heavier tasks
"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."
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.
I have a 8350 that I accidentally broke one of the pins off. I got lucky for it to be one of the grounding pins. Interestingly, I tested it against a 8320 I have and the 8320 performs better in games, probably because it isn't missing any pins lol.
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 bought an AMD processor back around that time, maybe like 2011 or 2012 and had to swap MOBOs, the CPU was stuck to the heat sink, I popped it off an it went flying across my room and bent a few pins. Lucky for me they were on the outside edge and I was able to bend them back, but I about had a heart attack. Thought I was out $600.00. Pretty much been Intel ever since lol.
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'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...
Remove all the bins, and you effectively turn it into an LGA chip. Although then you have to put the pins on the socket instead (and those are shaped different).
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.
There's some redundancy in pins: most are used for power delivery, either Vcc or ground. Consider that a LOT of power has to be delivered in a very small area: we're talking about 60-120w and the amperage is quite high. The surface contact of a single pin is very, very small - and you know what happens when you reduce the size of a conductor: yep - resistance increases. So they split that current on many pins. There are also some pins that aren't used, they are usually labelled as "NC" or "reserved", maybe for futrher development for future models of cpus.
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
This helped me reduce my panic managing cpus before installing, there's always this dread in thinking you will accidentally drop it, bend one pin and kill the cpu right away
This is so fascinating. I thought one of two things : It wouldn't boot up at all, Or it'd be extremely unstable. I'm SO surprised it wasn't either one of those two things! Just it booting up I was so surprised like wow!! PCs are the most picky about these things, The parts always have to be in pristine condition!
Well cutting off random pins is a lot like stabbing at random parts of a human, sometimes you cut off a pinky, and if you're unlucky then there goes the heart
Although it is very rare I ever mess with the CPU, I am usually very careful not to damage it the few times I ever do. One thing to remember about the ones with pins on them is they should go into the socket effortlessly. If you have to press it in, something is not right.
"CPU's with pins are supposed to go in effortlessly" is one of the first things I've learned when I started building PC's at 14. Whenever I see people claim they bent CPU pins I'm honestly baffled.
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.
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Cut off all the pins and put it in a Intel motherboard
bro why
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😂😂😂
@@luminumlx2604 For science!
@@yandhi8884 *Aperture science approved this message*
I think he should keep removing more and more pins and see how long it lasts.
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thats what i thought this video was gonna be, fuck this guy
yeah
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.
@@nikostalk5730chill it's just a dumb idea
This video would have been a lot more exciting of he used the big knife
And he would accidentally chop the CPU in to pieces
@@icyba the motherboard after
it would be more exiting. i agree.
This comment makes me very anxoius...
@@98SE Im also scared of people who use of instead of if.
"Please do not try this home"
**Trying on my main computer in the street**
Lol
try this at school
@@R4Y_TWO It's a great way to learn. That's what school is for after all.
@Horshu thanks, but what does a cpu pin have to do with jesus.
@@sr.chi7741 bot/spammer. This user wrote this EXACT same comment to a lot of reply section
Pls do my idea: Heat water with a CPU to make a coffee/tea
Take it a step further: make a soup on a 12900K
Linus did something like that, he just didn't make it into a drink
Genius
th-cam.com/video/g_OUD90ZU1Q/w-d-xo.html already done
British Empire be like:
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.
Some pins may also just be dummy pins, mostly reserved for future generations of the same socket.
@@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.
@@colbyboucher6391 Yeah, you can solder pins back on. It's incredibly difficult though. LTT did a video where they demonstrated it.
oooof
When I was an intern in a computer store, I accidentally bent like 8 pins on a than Brand New AMD processor because I accidentally bumped it in to something while I was trying to place it on the motherboard.
I spent about an hour trying to put the pins back in to place with a small knife and a small needle.
But it worked flawlessly.
You magician
Please don't tell me you sold that processor anyways, I wouldn't want bent pins even if they were bent back into place
@@cubixman9676 he actually did.
@@cubixman9676 someone did buy it.
@@cubixman9676 right now i am usin a Ryzen 5 5600G witch had bent pins and i putthem back,and everything is running fine
Grounding pin is exactly what I guessed. Cutting that off only slightly increased resistance of VSS in that area.
@Horshu Cry
@Horshu don’t care + didn’t ask + cry about it + cringe
@@kernel378 jeez bruh y'all toxic as fuck
@@kernel378 smh dude
Why all of you guys hate Jesus lol
I tried this at home, but after cutting off the ground pin, I get shocked every time I build a PC. That's my CPU's revenge...
Bruv
well i mean, that’s what grounding is supposed to prevent
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
@Horshu and I don't love him xD
@@gasmaskedcitizen i love you as well
My daily driver is an FX 6300 and It is still suprisingly good even for gaming.
i5
@@gacthedoge2498 i5?
@@filenotfound__3871 i6?
I4?
i10?
2:39 when your haircut is the difference between life or death
that’s why it’s called a close shave
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.
Most pins are redundant power and ground pins.
Not all of them could be electrically connected internally though, but it’s unlikely a single pin will be used.
If you cut off an IO pin you would get a failure after just one.
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 👍
genuinely curious, does it still work fine?
@@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)!
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.
what dinosaur are you running in that
@@foldr999 🤣🤣
Core 2 Duo / Quad processors were great! Still fine for multimedia, a Windows 7 machine or a powerful Windows XP „retro“ machine. :)
@@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.
@@WiseWorker908 any luck with that one? :O
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 😂
he ripped you off bro, i just got two fx6300 PCs with 2gb card for like 80 euro each.
He said a long time ago@@acidnmusik
This guy is like Sid from Toy Story but with PC components 😂
Fun fact: I'm still using a fx6300 in my current setup and it's holding up good I'd say but I have a i5 and am currently waiting for my motherboard
same, Im waiting for my 5600x to arrive tho
Which gen
@@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
fun fact: mine is an AMD Athlon II. Still working, idek how...
@@ryukom4701 aah rich ppls
i literally cant miss any of your videos . tnx for content .keep it up 👌🙏
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.
@@meme-hj5rs what
The moral of the story - OP couldn't bend a pin back, the previous generation had to get it done.
I have to admit… Your Short teasing this video might’ve been the best self marketing I’ve seen in a while. Great video too!
I find that most issues occur when pins are touching each other, either on the CPU or the mainboard
It sure is fun bending them back into place
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
Right, I forgot about that thing
Cool
@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.
oh i almost forgot about intel's stupid overclocking DLC idea
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...
dude its a real video, not a short...
LETS GOO
Making Breakfast With A CPU
Please do more full videos. Even if you have to make a separate channel to keep everyone happy. Love your PC destruction tests
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.
ngl when you said "one of the older AMD chips, released around 2012" a part of me literally died of old age
(also they've been around since the 70s)
Finally a full video from this guy
Great video i love the longer forms of videos from you
Sometimes you have to cut pins off CPU!
I've performed an upgrade on my ThinkPad T500 where I replaced the 2-core cpu with a 4-core CPU
The upgrade requires soldering a jumper cable through the CPU socket, and removing 5 specific pins off the CPU, as well as a custom open-source BIOS called Libreboot (based on Coreboot)
AFAIK, some of the pins are just used for testing the CPU, or burning the microcode on it, and im certain many pins are just extra and not used at all
There is a tutorial in German on how to do this upgrade (I dont speak german, but did enough research on the project that I did it myself) and to my amazement it worked! Still using that laptop for heavier tasks
Please make more long videos! You are a nice tech youtuber.
6 mins is long? Takes longer to have a smoke or fill up your car.
@@the_kombinatorhe didint say this video is long, hes just asking him to make more long videos
@@MythicqI Touché.
Man, I like these full videos way more than the shorts...
Your channel is amazing. Great content! Thank you, keep it up!
"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."
absolutely loving the new long form content. I binged all your shorts waay too quickly, so this is awesome too see!
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.
Me (gently removes a pin from my friends Ryzen 9 5900x) : Trust me bro it will work.
underrated TH-camr. Love that short but informativ cut of your videos ! :)
You knew it was a VSS. Didn't you?
keep up the good work on doing these thing to make us learn to not about pc part and making us worry less about pc parts
I have a 8350 that I accidentally broke one of the pins off. I got lucky for it to be one of the grounding pins. Interestingly, I tested it against a 8320 I have and the 8320 performs better in games, probably because it isn't missing any pins lol.
I love to eat cereal with some CPU's and a graphics card for finale
What would interest me is how it would hold up when you systematically cut off power pins
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.
@@ApocDevTeam That was because the bent pin was likely an address pin.
Video idea: cool a cpu with cookie cream
I bought an AMD processor back around that time, maybe like 2011 or 2012 and had to swap MOBOs, the CPU was stuck to the heat sink, I popped it off an it went flying across my room and bent a few pins. Lucky for me they were on the outside edge and I was able to bend them back, but I about had a heart attack. Thought I was out $600.00. Pretty much been Intel ever since lol.
I used a cleaver and cut off all the pins in one smooth swing. I'm a Master Chef.
This man knows more about computers then any other company lol
lol he knows a lot of info he must be in deep love with computers lol😂
@@MINDSETISEVERYTHING2024 your channel is rubbish 😂
its literally basic computer information lmao
The first thing that came to my mind was that you were going to cut off a ground pin xD
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
you.. broke pins off of a cpu without pins?
@@yourlocalidiot5090 The Pentium 4 had pins...
@@shadowxxe i have a pentium 4 lying around
it in fact does not have pins
@@yourlocalidiot5090 look up socket 478. Just because your pentium 4 didn't have pins does NOT mean another generation of the same cpu can't have it.
"dont loose all hope" and "if youre extremly lucky" dont go well together for me
Your channel is honestly one of my favourites! Your content is always interesting. Keep it up!
2:46 the creator of music has hiccups
Poor cpu :( feels bad
in our work, there is an athlon processor that is missing a pin and there is an MB that has a pin sinking, and both work perfectly 😂
Spoiler: he work
This is the only thing which is left for watching in my whole life 😂😂😂😂😂😂
How many ground pins can you cut off before it breaks? would be a good vid
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...
@@shapelessed He used a pin diagram in the video? I don't know what you're on about in that last part
@@MiniMoomaw You would if you were watching carefully.
@@shapelessed Who hurt you
@@MiniMoomaw Interesting question, though people asking it are usually the ones feeling hurt... Sad...
I’d love to see a follow up where you cut off each pin one by one and see how long before the computer starts being goofy or fails to boot
Remove all the bins, and you effectively turn it into an LGA chip. Although then you have to put the pins on the socket instead (and those are shaped different).
The next experiment cut 1 pins for a time until the cpu stops working,i want to see how much pins you can cut before the cpu stops working
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.
There's some redundancy in pins: most are used for power delivery, either Vcc or ground. Consider that a LOT of power has to be delivered in a very small area: we're talking about 60-120w and the amperage is quite high. The surface contact of a single pin is very, very small - and you know what happens when you reduce the size of a conductor: yep - resistance increases. So they split that current on many pins. There are also some pins that aren't used, they are usually labelled as "NC" or "reserved", maybe for futrher development for future models of cpus.
can you cut off one of Ryzen 9 5900X pins?
You gave your CPU a lobotomy.
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?
Sounds like it was the don't dump mains power into the hard drive pin.
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.
@@MikkoRantalainen sorry but no. It happened decades ago
Love your stuff man, love the sacrifice you do too xD.
what is gonna happen if we cut the pins from amd cpu and use with intel mother board??
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if you cut off the pins, it can't walk anymore, just limp.
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
This channel is rated R for future AIs watching TH-cam.
My fx-6350 had a bent pin when I got it used. I just straightened the sucker out and been running for years without issue.
Mryeester: "It still actually boots!"
That one pin:
You didn't have to cut me off
This helped me reduce my panic managing cpus before installing, there's always this dread in thinking you will accidentally drop it, bend one pin and kill the cpu right away
I remember seeing a story of someone who lost a few pins, it ran fine but the iGPU was no longer functional therefore a discrete GPU was required.
I just realized your profile picture is a CPU with thermal paster shaped into a smiley face
Imagine the motherboard said it was a I9-12900k
Lol
This is so fascinating.
I thought one of two things : It wouldn't boot up at all, Or it'd be extremely unstable.
I'm SO surprised it wasn't either one of those two things!
Just it booting up I was so surprised like wow!!
PCs are the most picky about these things, The parts always have to be in pristine condition!
Well cutting off random pins is a lot like stabbing at random parts of a human, sometimes you cut off a pinky, and if you're unlucky then there goes the heart
"think of it as a haircut for the cpu" bro imma give mine a dope fade
this is like cutting out parts of someones brain and seeing if they can still walk
mryeester
Cuts first pin:My heart: Oh
Cuts second pin: My heart: OHH
Cuts third pin:My heart: -----------
more videos!!! i like this style of your videos and theyre really interessing
Do more video like this, where you explain things like in this video
Actually more pins from my old cpu was broken and what it happens, it won't turn your computer at all. It has to be replaced if more pins are ripped.
great video! would love to see more longer videos like this
Been watching this channel for more than a half year but forgot to subscribe so did it today...
Although it is very rare I ever mess with the CPU, I am usually very careful not to damage it the few times I ever do. One thing to remember about the ones with pins on them is they should go into the socket effortlessly. If you have to press it in, something is not right.
"CPU's with pins are supposed to go in effortlessly" is one of the first things I've learned when I started building PC's at 14. Whenever I see people claim they bent CPU pins I'm honestly baffled.
@@QWERTYCommander People usually bend pins by dropping the cpu
ahhh pins.. takes me back to my days of my youth playing around with 386 and 486 systems!
... actually flinched at the first pin being severed
prime95 uses a very small subset of the cpu pathways,it will work but the missing pin will obviously crater any more complex program.
STOP PLEASE I BEG YOU I’VE HAD 52 HEART ATTACKS YOU DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH THIS HURT’S
This aged well (I broke my cpu)
Thanks for answering a question that i always wondered about.
I would have loved a longer video doing more. You make such great videos
the ceo of saying the same exact thing 50 times over with a different explanation
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.
@4:40 im gonna guess it was just a ground pin...
Cannibalism, he's
attacking another
fellow cpu
I love that CPU, was my very first, amazing overclocking capability