Damn! Fried my 2600+ T-bred

[thesim]

Well.. I bought 2600+ 266mhz T-bred to my old Epox 8k3a+ (rev 1.0) motherboard. As far as I know they should be compatible.

I put the T-bred into socket and little bit Artic Silver 3 to the core.
Then shimm and SLK-800 cooler on top of the t-bred.

At that point the "funny" part began.
When I switched the power on little crackin sounds came from the processor and those sweet smell. Yeah.. one burned T-bred.
There were no beep sounds from the motherboard.
All the fans including the processor fan were spinning however.
And even I used shimm the contact of the core and bottom of the cooler looked tight according the thermal paste marks.


Afterwards I've been thinkin what went wrong. Because the warranty wont cover such a things I dont know if it's worth to give another try on a new T-bred.

Well.. I'd be pleased if someone can give any guesses what I did wrong.
Oh.. the good old AXP 2000+ palomino works still fine so the mobo is not damaged.

Thanks for help and forgive my "bad" english.

[muno]

Probably the core broke down, either because of manufacturing defect or because you cracked it.

That's my guess.
-M

I think that the shim might have caused a little gap between the core and the base of the HS, so the core was not under full pressure from the HS which caused it to fry ...

Anyway, sorry for the loss dude ..

Welcome to TechIMO
Regards

[thesim]

The core is fine, at least it looks like ok.
I've been wondering if the shimm was however too much and the contact wasnt good enough in spite of that it looked so?

Oh well.. I decided to try with another T-bred. Hope that story will be happier.

[Wizzard~Of~Ozz]

My guess is the shim was the problem, I really don't recommend them. They are required to be absoloutely perfect, and there aren't too many things now a days that are accurated to 1/1000th of an inch.

[cbuddha42]

does you set-up really require a shim? probably be better off without it

[woodbutcher]

Sorry to hear the loss of the CPU.
I agree with with Wizzard, the machining tolerances are to precise to trust in IMO.
I believe AMD does NOT recommend the use of shims either.

WB

[thesim]

I use the shim only for keeping the core undamaged.
Never have had any problems using them but this was clearly too much.
Too bad that the victim was 2600+