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Delidding-how to remove stickers???

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aslowdodge

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Sounds strange. I ordered 2 x5590's from china and on the back there are stickers right on the processor. I tried to remove one with an exacto knife tip but the sticker breaks into little pieces. The top one is the one I tried to pry up
So how do I remove them and why on earth did they put the stickers there. The heat sink lid would have been much better. I've delided one of them already but the the sticker has me baffled.

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that is ridiculous. I would return them as a first thought. Not sure if you can with one being modified by yourself by delidding already. But you could also try something like Isopropyl alcohol (90%+) or something else that is known to remove gunky sticker material and safe for CPUs
 
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skizzo said:
that is ridiculous. I would return them as a first thought. Not sure if you can with one being modified by yourself by delidding already. But you could also try something like Isopropyl alcohol (90%+) or something else that is known to remove gunky sticker material and safe for CPUs
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Thanks. I am going to try the alcohol. I wasn't sure it it was safe. Q tip okay?
 
I will say I have used q-tips, alcohol pads (the little wipes that come in individual packets) and lint free clothes as I have several of them being a guitar player. Someone else might say these are not 100% safe, but in my experience I have never had an issue with cleaning a CPU and having it not work afterwards.
 
You better check if the CPU is really the one that you ordered as well.

I know 2 confirmed cases in the last 30 days that they order X5690 from China, the lid is X5690, but the CPU is actually X5680.
 
^^^^Yep, I try to avoid buying stuff from China as much as possible. I have a set of 8 counterfeit spark plugs sitting in my garage nowthumbsdown.gif However, my last purchase from Alibaba turned out wellthumbsup.gif

Lou
 
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I know 2 confirmed cases in the last 30 days that they order X5690 from China, the lid is X5690, but the CPU is actually X5680.
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Seems like an incredible amount of effort to screw somebody out of a tiny bit of money for decade-old processors that, in the grand scheme of things, aren't worth that much these days anyway... Are they just TRYING to screw somebody over for the fun of it??
 
fhturner said:
Seems like an incredible amount of effort to screw somebody out of a tiny bit of money for decade-old processors that, in the grand scheme of things, aren't worth that much these days anyway... Are they just TRYING to screw somebody over for the fun of it??
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You won't believe how bad the "scam culture" is in China.

Even eggs (I mean a whole uncooked egg) can be fake, which only sell at $0.1. It's extremely hard to understand why they want to make so much effort to make fake eggs (which looks 99% like a real one) for sell. It is completely illegal, even the cost may be much lower than $0.1 per egg, but still has cost. And the profit is definite tiny even they can make thousands eggs. But they still do it.

Relatively, put the X5690's lid on a X5680 is easy, and can make 100x more than an egg already.

I am a Hong Kong Chinese. We have plenty of news about this kind of issues. I still can't believe how ridiculous it is.
 
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Well I am going to try the alcohol and q tip, then delid the other one. I'll report back to see if it works and if I got legit processors.
 
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Well I manage to clean with the alcohol and q tips as well as using an xacto knife tip.
Now that I have both delidded next I have to scrape the old solder off.
 
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Success and happily I didn't get scammed
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Thanks to everyone that helped me out here: Now I'm going to try to enable trim
 
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AliGT83 said:
Make sure the heat sinks are properly tightened.
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I just moved the #5 ram into slot 6 and I still have the same 3 slots showing filled. I'm going to try to tighten the heat sinks a bit more. I didn't want to overtighten, but I'll try a bit more. Is there a torque spec for them?
 
aslowdodge said:
I just moved the #5 ram into slot 6 and I still have the same 3 slots showing filled. I'm going to try to tighten the heat sinks a bit more. I didn't want to overtighten, but I'll try a bit more. Is there a torque spec for them?
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When I swapped my CPU’s I tightened the screws a quarter of a turn at a time until all ram came back
 
Australian Eucalyptus Oil. . it emulsifies adhesives. :)
Support the CPU upside down for about 20 minutes
so that only the tips of the pins tips are in contact with the Eucalyptus oil.
 
ok I now have 7 out of 8 ram slots back , but 6 shows empty. I also have a red light on the left heat sink. Is that processor one or two?

I went in and tightened down the heat sinks, tighter than I felt good about-Till they felt snug and stopped. Maybe too tight?
 
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if I am looking inside with the cover off and the top of your illustration is on my right, then i see a red light here.
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jbarley said:
I must say I've often wondered just what horrible things might befall one who exposes the serial number of an old computer?
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Hackintoshers use SSN to spoof real Macs and use iMessage/FaceTime/iCloud.

It’s a lot more complicated than just the SSN, but once your SSN starts to be cloned and Apple blocks it, is a real pain in the _ss to get it unblocked.

Some unscrupulous people use SSNs from real 2012 Mac Pros too to “upgrade” 2009/2010 Mac Pros.
 
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