First post, by Evert
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So, I recently acquired 4 old computers and one of them has the legendary AMD K5-PR166 CPU. I wanted to remove the CPU to clean it a bit and I noticed that several (4 by my count) of the pins are completely missing. The previous owner hasn't started any of the computers in over 10 years. What can be done to remedy this problem? I suppose I could take it to a Jeweler and let him/her solder gold wire onto it or I can buy some gold wire and drop it into the socket manually. What else can be done? I've attached some photos that I've taken with my iPhone: