Recent content by jehdin

I'm pretty sure the board's dead; and it was time to update it anyhow, however I don't want to drop the cash on a new motherboard, just to bend the pins again. So, at this point it's definitely not the lapping that caused the problem - it was probably me reseating the HSF and possibly even...

Well, what I mean is, could the modification of lapping the CPU have been a contributing cause of bending the pins? I can't really see that happening, unless there was a real slope on one side of the CPU, and I did what I could to make it as even as possible. I am definitely thinking that a...

Hello folks, I have a quick question about the way I wrecked my motherboard, and I'm looking for a bit of advice on how to avoid it in the future. Recently I lapped my Q6600 BA0, and planned to replace the stock HSF with an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro. When I installed the CPU back in my...