RacoonRider wrote:shamino wrote:
Slot-1 gives you some flexibility with slocket adapters though, and if you ever break the heatsink retaining clip, which happens easily on 370, then you'll only have ruined a slocket and not an entire motherboard.
computergeek92 wrote:Yes and if the black Slot 1 cpu clips are broken, they are easily replaceable, unlike breaking the Socket 370 heatsink holding tabs - then you're out of a motherboard.
Come on, there is such thing as thermal glue, you do not have to throw away your board.
If you mean epoxying the broken tab, I have a hard time trusting that, but maybe it works.
You can epoxy a heatsink to the CPU, but I find that very undesirable and still consider it a ruined motherboard regardless. At that point all I can say is that it's not quite trash, but it's close.
The heatsink can never come back off.
Most 370 Coppermines only have a small die area with no heatspreader, but I suppose it's still big enough to attach to.
The weight of the heatsink is now pulling on the ZIF socket, unless it's a horizontal case.
It might be impractical to ever remove the CPU and reinstall it. I don't think I'd be able to line the pins up with the whole heatsink on top of it, but I've never tried.
I've resorted to this on a Compaq Deskpro. It now has a permanent 1.4GHz P3-S. I'd like to be able to swap it around for experiments but at this point I think I need to buy another one and just leave that CPU where it is.
mockingbird wrote:The whole white plastic socket is not soldered on to the motherboard, it's just epoxied onto the motherboard. It can be removed and replaced. On the Asus CUSL2, Asus used a very weak glue, and it is very easy to remove the socket.
I've never heard this before. I'm confused how this can be, but I'll have to try messing with one of my broken 370s sometime and see what you mean. Sounds encouraging.
I hate that socket. Maybe this will make me hate it a little less.