I thought I`d turn an old Slot A 1ghz Athlon that got fried ages ago by loose Arctic Silver (grrr ) into a cool keyring! Easy Right?....... Wrong! Here is the dead chip before.... And after 20 futile minutes of trying to drill thru it with a Dremel..... Oh look I`ve scratched the surface! woo-bloody-hoo! I know! - lets switch to a titanium bit drill and try drilling it from the other side..... f***ing thing! - what the hell do they make these CPU cores out of anyway ?!?! I`ll show it - tomorrow its going on the post drill! > moohahaha Has anyone else tried to drill thru a CPU core? If so - what did you use? Help me please! hehe
Yes! The hole was made with an ultrasonic drill worth more than your average small house I'm told it's possible to do it with tile cutting diamond drill bits on the cheap Cheers, r.
Oh I give up! How can a chip be blown by something as simple as arctic silver, yet resist having a hole drilled in it by a post drill and several expensive drill bits! I think I`ll just take a hammer to the bugger!
lol lucky I had a whole physics department of people to do mine for me... it went like this, -athlon arrived in post (£5 - cheap for a cool keyring), went into work, -pay a visit to the student workshop, talk to the head technician 'hmm... we'll give it a go' he says, -athlon nearly breaks a normal 3mm drill bit in a high speed pile drill - I'm sent up to the main workshop, 'they'll do it' he says. -the normal workshop was a little quiet so I just approached any old person, the guy frowns a lot. He frowns a lot more. 'Did you buy this from Halford's he ask' (it was packed in a halford heatshrink box - don't ask why), 'what's it made of?'. I umm'd a lot. And then some more, and then ventured that it feels a bit like slate. He frowns again. He sends me to find Pete and the ultrasonic drill. -pete and the ultrasonic drill live on the top floor so a lot of steps later and I finially meet the machine that can put a hole in my athlon. For the ultrasonic drill to work there needs to be a reservoir of water around the hole area and hollow drill bit - so pete had to cut some bits of plastic to fit around the corner of the chip etc... he told me to come back later. -a few hours pass - wooo a keyring at last. So my keyring cost the physics department about 4 man hours of head technician (pete's grade) work (about £100!), lol! Oops, I thought I would just be able to walk into the student workshop and do it myself, how wrong was I? r.
bloody feck, what *are* those things made of? i had no idea it would be that differcult to drill through a CPU. anyways, how does an ultrasonic drill work? does it just SHOUT VERY LOUDLY at it or something? cool idea tho i feel like doing that to my athlon 700 but i now have no idea how to make a hole in it
Umm an ultrasonic drill send ultrasonic waves through water (inside a hollow drill bit) which then chuffs up the surface inside the drill bit. Umm... in other words I don't really know But it works r.
cool, it would be far better tho if the drill just shouted abuse at it! "brake j00 muddy funsting muddy funster!@£$!!! BRAKE!!!!"
Err yeah... but then when one day your sparking new pooter crashes and you shout at it a hole would appear in the cpu and and I'm sure that wouldn't be good r.
why? if it's not working, it's broke and then you have in an instant a nice keyring! talking about recycling....
Err... my computer crashes (very occasionally thanks to XP) - I don't put a hole in my tbird eveytime it does though Silly. r.
