DOH!
Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 3:17 pm
Guess what I did! I'm currently building a new computer and the CPU I bought was a different socket type that my motherboard takes. In short I destroyed a 200 dollar chip and now I can't finish my new computer until I get my next paycheck
I SHOULD have double checked to see if the CPU i was buying was the right socket so its mostly my fault I made an expensive blunder. For some reason AMD made their latest of their line of Phenom II processors use an older socket type. I was originally going to buy their slower CPUs but decided to get the faster one cause I could afford it. There I assumed they were both socket AM3. When building my computer, I knew somthing was wrong when the CPU wasn't fitting in the motherboard properly. I should have stopped there but I used a bit of force got it to seat semi-properly and the heatsink crushed it in. Socket AM2+ CPUs have more pins in the back of the chip than AM3 so basically I tried to force something that had more legs into pants that didn't have as many pants holes.
I SHOULD have double checked to see if the CPU i was buying was the right socket so its mostly my fault I made an expensive blunder. For some reason AMD made their latest of their line of Phenom II processors use an older socket type. I was originally going to buy their slower CPUs but decided to get the faster one cause I could afford it. There I assumed they were both socket AM3. When building my computer, I knew somthing was wrong when the CPU wasn't fitting in the motherboard properly. I should have stopped there but I used a bit of force got it to seat semi-properly and the heatsink crushed it in. Socket AM2+ CPUs have more pins in the back of the chip than AM3 so basically I tried to force something that had more legs into pants that didn't have as many pants holes.