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excellent hey everybody welcome back this week I've been working on lots of different stuff so for instance I have the Nash build that I've put together over here I finally got that sort of setup and the basics up and running so I have a video for that coming on Saturday I've also been working on getting the parts together for my wife's water-cooled system that I'm going to build in the fractal define nano s and I've also been going doing the sort of ongoing organization and and putting things where they should be project here in my work area and I've come across a lot of CPUs that I've had so I thought this might be something interesting for you guys to take a look at - which is a lot of the CPUs that I've kind of collected over the years in working in technology and that kind of thing so I'm going to go over what I have here in front of me this isn't every CPU that I own because a lot of them are in use in systems that I have up and running here and there and this is by no means an exhaustive look at like you know the history of CPUs or anything like that this is just what I still have on me I try to collect these when I can but I don't really do it like I don't have like a CPU from every socket and platform that's ever existed or anything like that that'd be nice to have maybe maybe in the future someday actually let's start out with probably a problem that a lot of you guys have encountered which is it I don't have all the CPUs I've ever used because I've resold them a lot of you did what I probably did back in the day which is I built a system use it for a couple years and then I would sell the system you know maybe scavenge a couple parts but sell the system in order to buy parts to build a new system so I do have a couple CPUs that I wish I still had around including the first actual desktop computer that's my dad bought back when I was just an early teenager and that was using an Intel 46 DX chip which is an old-school processor and I don't even know what happened in that system when he finally got rid of it but that was a family system from there I moved to an AMD k-6 to 450 that CPU ran at 450 megahertz it was absolutely fantastic for me and then again I sold that system when I was through with it and I moved on to the Pentium 4 now my and BK 6 to 450 system was pretty epic but it was based on a bare-bones system that I had bought at Fry's so I didn't really put the whole thing together a piece it myself my third system that I could say was the first system I really got all the parts for individually and put together I also don't have because I did resell it but I do have some pictures so that one at least I can share with you guys and give you a better a better idea of like an old-school system that I built back in a day so um here it is look I've got an NR max power supply that's a that's always a good decision you might notice here that I have for instance like a copper CPU cooler on there that's that's kind of cool I also might notice that the cable management management is pretty terrible you know it's using an 8-bit motherboard EBIT was my standby go-to motherboard company for quite some time this is a th7 raid motherboard from them these pictures actually took before I sold the system so you know this epic features like dual optical drives DVD as well as a I think it's like a 24 speed CD burner as well as a floppy disk you'll notice my genuine Windows XP key right there which you guys are all welcome to steal now and then there's the system itself I have no idea of what kind of case set is all I know is that front panel like when you when you tapped on it it would slide down kind of like it was on hydraulics or something like that and I thought that was pretty badass so here all my CPUs arrayed sort of in chronological order so AMD is on the bottom row Intel is on the top row these are actually from about 2002 to 2003 on the far left here going all the way up to about present day for both for both manufacturers now overhead in the far left you'll notice these CPUs don't have heat spreaders on them that was a big a big advancement that was made and you see Intel and AMD both doing that with heat spreaders and all their CPUs I'll show you why they do that the CPU right here but AMD for their part went from these Athlon XP chips to their Athlon 64 chips this was when they were doing really well really putting the screws to Intel this is when they started introducing some fancy new features like IMC integrated memory controller as well as actual dual-core processors as opposed to single core single thread processors that have been available prior to them from there they kept moving forward with the Phenom series followed up to Phenom to series and then currently we have the top and AMD CPUs the AMD FX series that's an 80 350 right here which is actually launched in 2012 but it's still the fastest AMD CPU you can get if you're saying Paul you're wrong they have that 9000 series as well well you know the 9000 series is just an 80 350 that's been so it can overclock more so if you buy an 80 350 and you can overclock the 5 gigahertz it's a 95 90 gray as for Intel we start up here on the top left with a Pentium 4 old-school super heat generating Pentium 4 after that Intel started to get their act together after AMD came out with their FX or the Athlon 64 FX series so Intel started really pushed this is when they introduced their tick-tock cycle after that so these are LGA 775 CPUs the QX 6600 and the Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955 or what I have here and this is where Intel decided you know those pins on the bottom of CPUs it can get bent and broken and damaged and stuff we're going to move those onto the motherboard so that's as the first LGA land grid array CPUs from Intel and these I mean a QX 6600 is still very very highly respected chip being a quad core and everything the extreme edition was very high had a very high clock speed one of my CPUs that I do wish I still had was my eye 7 9 20 I did have one ended up selling it this was the first time Intel gave the enthusiast platform its own socket and chipset so this was LGA 1366 socket compatible CPU and they'd used x58 chipset motherboards they also introduced triple channel memory at this time which is pretty sweet I am skipping a few generations in between this lineup of Intel CPUs over here because I don't have them all but this is a 2500 K that is a Sandy Bridge CPU this is actually the second generation Intel Core CPUs the 2500 K has a soft spot in all of our hearts because had amazing performance fantastic overclock ability and it was reasonably priced it was like 215 bucks or so I think when it launched beyond that of course you have these bigger CPUs on the top right and that's Intel's enthusiast lines so starting with the Extreme Edition I think Intel kind of got the idea hey we should make a separate series for the people who are really into this kind of stuff so they made the enthusiast platform but I do have here is this AI 739 60 X this launched in 2011 and it would suck at 2011 and x79 chipset motherboards Intel also stepped up to quad-channel memory support with this series and this was also the first time that Intel came out with a consumer six core processor next we have the newest Intel enthusiast series which is going to be using x99 chipset LGA 2011 - three motherboard sockets or socket motherboards and this is a 5820k out of a 59 30 K and a 59 60 X which are all super awesome this one I use for testing and stuff like that but then lastly we have a 6700 K which is the current fastest consumer-level processor the Intel makes although it is still a quad core where as you can get six or an eight core CPUs if you go with their enthusiast platform let's move back over here to the beginning though and take a closer look at some of these chips because I think they deserve a closer looking at so let's start with this one this is the Athlon XP again the specific one we're looking at here is the 3200 AMD also at this time used some pretty confusing nomenclature to name their CPUs so this has a 3200 plus is the actual name of the CPU Athlon XP 3200 plus although the 3200 plus was sort of AMD being tricky they're trying to say that you know what the frequency doesn't matter because of some other things they built in there and up till then well even still now frequency is often looked at as like what makes a CPU fast this 3200 plus though actually had a 2200 megahertz clock speed in in real life but AMD was basically saying that this lines up with processors from Intel that run at 3200 or 3.2 gigahertz this one is a foreigner megahertz bus fee that launched in May of 2003 and it sold for just about $500 yeah that's right $500 for an AMD processor anyway though it doesn't have a heat spreader which is probably the main thing that you'll notice here we're at vs. like these processors that have that metal piece on top but this actually lets you look directly at the CPU die which is just that's that square that rectangle that's right there in the center and this is what was exposed on CPUs for for lots of time it you might notice it also has these four little pads on each corner and that's so that when you were putting like a heat sink fan on top of it to keep the thing cool it wouldn't damage the dye nevertheless that was still fairly easy to do one other thing before I show you the other one is just to look at the pins on the bottom also very very I want to say the pins are large they might look small but these are so these are pretty thick pins on there especially if you compare it to say newer ones on the Athlon 64 so you'll notice you know they made the pins a lil bit finer that actually meant that these older CPUs as far as the pins on the bottom this is PGA by the way which is pin grid grid array we're actually a little bit harder to damage from the pin side as far as bending pins and that kind of thing I'll show you some vent pins here in just a second as well but why was this guy so delicate and why is there a legacy now of whenever you install heat sink fan that you should install and mount one corner and like the you know the cross pattern you're supposed to do when you're when you're tightening down heat sink fan you're supposed to like just get one corner kind of on there and then do a cross pattern one corner and only only a tighten it down a little bit at a time that is because before people realized that this was a problem they would do stuff like this this is another Athlon XP processor it's not too much different than the one I just showed you this is a slightly lower model 2800 Plus though Athlon XP this one did launch a year earlier in 2002 and it sold for about four hundred dollars when it launched but to look at that I left the heat I left the thermal paste on here let me get you guys a nice close look though so if you guys can see that corner right there just where I'm kind of trying to point at with this razor it's chipped just the corner has a little nick on it right there that means this processor is dead that's right the actual die that you're looking at right there on top has about the resiliency of glass which meant that if you did try to put a heat spreader down on this and you did just go ahead and tighten down one corner of it all the way down before you bothered with any of the other corners it was going to go down and put pressure at an angle and you were going to end up breaking the corner of your CPU die and then your CPU is dead then you'd return it so wherever you bought it from and if I was the person at the place where you bought it from who took the CPU out and looked at it I would then send you an email that says I'm sorry sir or ban your CPU is physically damaged and cannot be replaced and it was very sad the flipside to that though would be flipside that's kind of a joke let me show you though anyway this this Pentium 4 right here which is in shadow but look look it's a Pentium 4 had lots of use this isn't my Pentium 4 unfortunately this is this is a different Pentium 4 I didn't use this one personally alright so as you can maybe see on the corner here we have a massive amount of bent pins on this which meant whoever had this processor before mishandled it or perhaps they tried to install it with pressure when they were using a ZIF or zero insertion force socket but anyway they managed to bend these pins down pretty horribly I might add there's there's several more scattered throughout this particular CPU bent pins I did notice though that none of these are actually broken off when I would get returns of this nature and I saw bent pins I would actually often spend a bit of time and I got pretty good at repairing them I'm not going to show you guys exactly how I did it now but basically take a razor blade I can't even see what I'm doing but you know whatever you take a razor blade any I would kind of put it along one line and kind of you know bend one line to be straight and then I go with the razor blade into the other direction and do along the line there and kind of bend them up to be straight and it took a lot of kind of precision and patience and and carefulness and that kind of thing but as long as the pins weren't like bent flat down to the PCB you can generally get them to sit up straight again and once you've gotten those all straightened up in the lines and drop it back into a socket generally the CPU would still work so whereas with chipped dies on on CPUs without a heat spreader I was pretty much forced to give people bad news often when damaged CPUs of this nature would come through I was able to fix them and if I got it working again then we were able to honor the RMA and give the person a well usually they wanted to refund with something like this but yeah I always felt like that was nice to be able to dude be ok you broke your but I fixed it so here's your refund moving up the line on our AMD processors though you'll notice this one here that has some some actual writing on it so I wrote down at LAN 64 3000 plus on this because that's that's what it is however if you see the actual text printed on the heat spreader there ad a 4600 da a 5 B V that is a that's not the same that's not the same model as an Athlon 64 3000 plus the difference in price between a 3000 plus and the the 4600 at the time when this processor first hit my hot hands was pretty significant I think the 3000 plus you can get for 200 to 250 dollars whereas the 460 was over 800 or M for the 4600 so this was a unique chip that came through and basically what the entrepreneur in person who had this chip originally did was they popped off the heat spreader saudi-led deleting a cpu is what that's often called but they were able to use whatever methods were at their disposal to pop off the heat spreader from a much more expensive cpu of 4600 then they took a cheaper CPU this 3000 plus and remounted the heat spreader to it and then returned it and try to get a refund we caught them I'm happy to say we tested it and we're like that's not the right CPU dude very very sneaky though and I don't know I don't know if this is something that still happens or not I'm kind of out of that that that realm anymore but um for what it's worth this is still a working 3000 plus AMD processor it's just it just has the wrong heat spreader on it look all the pins are nice - I also wanted at least give you guys a quick look at this one because it's just it's one of these God like it's a god like I'll call it that God like this is an Athlon 64 FX this is the FX 62 F X 60 and of FX 62 where I think we're kind of at the peak of AMD's like dominance when in the mid 2000s and the CPU industry these were more than $1000 they were dual-core at a time when dual-core was a very very new thing and they were also overclockable which is pretty badass let's move up to the a to the Intel slide though so I can show you guys this QX 6600 Core 2 quad LGA 775 you might notice I wrote I have these labeled I wrote engineering sample on this because is an engineering sample before I go into what an engineering sample is let's look at the bottom you'll notice this is an LG a CPU so since I showed you this horrible Pentium 4 with all of the bent pins until eventually got sick of that and I like you know we could do we can move all those pins over to the motherboard side and then no one will ever be able to to bend pins on a CPU ever again and they haven't been able to do that so LJ is land grid array and that's again as opposed to your AMD processors your AMD processors which are PGA or pin grid array ok back to the engineering sample thing you might notice here if you can read that text which I think you're able to at the top there it says Intel confidential in telecom potential so an engineering sample is basically CPU the Intel has produced that is not meant for retail sale so instead of stamping it with what you would see on a retail CPU which do I even have any do I have any of those are all of my yeah it would appear it would appear that pretty much that's not entirely true I do it I do have none I do have not engineering sample Intel processors but none of the ones that are out here those are all engineer examples anyway I'm not engineering sample like this one will actually say what processor is on the on there and will tell you like you know the SKU and that kind of thing whereas engineering sample processors well not they have a very mysterious a bit of text on there which says Intel confidential it will I think tell you yeah it'll tell you where the fab is so this one's from Malay and it might give you a little bit of extra information but often with engineering samples it becomes difficult especially if you have multiple ones of them to tell which one is which that's why you'll notice on my engineering sample CPUs over here I usually put a some some nonstick tape up there so with writing as for what they are or you can just use you know a permanent marker and write directly on them or you can do what I did with my 39 60 X and do a little bit of text that's actually right up there on the PCB on edge and that also works as well so there you have it guys hopefully this has been a a nostalgic walk down memory lane for a few of you and perhaps an eye-opening look at the way CPUs have developed physically at least over the past 10 or 15 years for others probably most specifically those who are newer to the PC enthusiasts DIY build your own computer space group that's that's that's official but PC master-race we'll just call it that anyway thanks so much for watching this video don't forget the thumbs up button on your way out if you enjoyed it of course and down in the description you can find important links to important things such as my store where you can buy shirts mugs and glasses which is a great way to support me and get yourself a little bit of 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