processor question.

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tonzofgunz25

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I have some old 98's from the office kicking around that i like to mess with. helps me prepare for when i need to change something in a machine w.o making it blow up. i just tried to remove a processor and put it in a diffrent one. and it doesnt look like they're meant to come out... it had a hollow metal case over it which suprised me i thought that was the processor. when i looked closely it appeared to be a flat pad thats basicly glued in there... are processors meant to come off the MB? i see them for sale on ebay all the time. let me know.
thanks
-Tonz
 
The earlier boards prior to AMD Slot one and Pentium boards saw the cpu surface mounted directly to the board itself. A heat sink and cooling fan was then adhered to it with a thermal compound. Removing those requires a surface mount kit in order to desolder them. Some general system information like make and model would be help in digging up more specific information on them.
 
its not the pc i have that interests me anymore. i've come to the conclusion some powerful adhesive was used and not meant to be removed. im more interested in what kind of motherboard and processor i could get that is removable and can i can do computer to computer transplants easily and effectivly with. but i dont see these listed as any specs for anything. can anyone enlighten me?
 
At this point you would be have to start looking into the newer line of ATX or BTX cases and decide on the two leading manufacturers for central processing units otherwise known as "cpus". AMD and Intel each have their own different socket types for the varying lines of cpus they make. You would have to select the type according to application, operating system, and price range. All these things will have a direct bearing. 98 is no longer supported on most newer type boards available. Also the types and styles of cases, power requirements and configurations, and power supply standards have changed since?
 
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Yes PC eye is right but before you start buying stuff i think you should do more research into more moden CPU's there socket type(think of mains sockets(the power sockets) different country has different sockets you can't use round socket into a flat socket(thou u have converter for that but u dont have converters for the CPU world). Also if your gona get something half decent for some money i recremend a Intel core 2 duo(also research this)these are the latests cpu's by intel and are up there wen it comes to performance. Latest socket types are LGA775 by intel and AM2 by amd. usually the newer the socket type the better cpu's it'll support.

but with different cpu's in different sockets there are also newer bus's now like PCI-E and SATA(only one's i can think of at the time)PCI-E is the new standard bus type for graphic cards and SATA will soon be the standard bus type for Harddrives/Optical drives(dvd rom/cd rom etc).

So remember to do alota research before you start build,cause you dont want to buy a cpu that doesn't fit into the new motherboard you bought or the new PCI-E graphic's card that won't fit into an old AGP. but dont give it up because you think it's hard cause once you know how to build a comptuer it's really fun and it'll save you heaps of money.

If you have any problem just ask around on forum's. Thats how i got started.
 
Thanks guys im looking into it as we speak. the 98's i have are garbage and i only keep them for experimental purposes.
I have these forums bookmarked now, they seem like a great source of information
Thanks again.
-Tonz
 
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