It was surprising to see you having it socketed in the motherboard for some of the delidding. I would not have thought that to be safe, but back in the 90s, there wasn't as much pin density, so the pins were larger and much stronger than they are now.
I kept it in the socket to add some weight to the CPU and keep it in place. I think it's much easier to bend pins when you're working on the CPU only - hard to get a proper grip. Once it's fixed in a socket, you need medium pressure on the razor blade. I wasn't concerned about the pins during the process
for this silicone compound and ceramic substrate delidding can be made much easily - just drop whole cpu in some hydrocarbonic solvent (like kerosene or white-spirit) for a few hours. Then IHS can be removed by hand.
Heh, same. Not surprising though, they had their tech and simply evolved. K7 maybe is a completely different architecture but general chip construction apparently stayed the same. Out of curiosity I checked also how K8 looks delided - and... not really the same, they evolved 😉
I was very nervous filming this! I was constantly worried I chip the die or damage it during the quite power-on test. But, seems to have survived! Hope I can get part 2 out this week.
It was surprising to see you having it socketed in the motherboard for some of the delidding. I would not have thought that to be safe, but back in the 90s, there wasn't as much pin density, so the pins were larger and much stronger than they are now.
I kept it in the socket to add some weight to the CPU and keep it in place. I think it's much easier to bend pins when you're working on the CPU only - hard to get a proper grip. Once it's fixed in a socket, you need medium pressure on the razor blade. I wasn't concerned about the pins during the process
for this silicone compound and ceramic substrate delidding can be made much easily - just drop whole cpu in some hydrocarbonic solvent (like kerosene or white-spirit) for a few hours. Then IHS can be removed by hand.
I don't know what I was expecting under the heat spreader, but it wasn't a CPU that looked just like a K7.
I have never questioned the look of the K6-2. However, after removing the lid I feel betrayed ;)
Heh, same. Not surprising though, they had their tech and simply evolved. K7 maybe is a completely different architecture but general chip construction apparently stayed the same. Out of curiosity I checked also how K8 looks delided - and... not really the same, they evolved 😉
K6 111/450 was a beast..and kicked Intel into the middle of next week
I wish I would have more K6-III CPUs (I have one 450AFX only). They are not easy to come by at a reasonable price.
It was my cpu before 22 years ago
7:03 Cut toward your chum, not toward your thumb. 😂
Whats the speed boost from the extra 128k?
Working on a follow-up. Should go up within a couple of days
Interesting :)
I was very nervous filming this! I was constantly worried I chip the die or damage it during the quite power-on test. But, seems to have survived! Hope I can get part 2 out this week.
You're missing someting... K6-3+ supposedly has "enhanced 3dnow!" Missing in previous parts 👀
CPU world says lol
I will have to do a deep dive into MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, and Enhanced 3DNow!.