My 1ghz AXIA t-bird has gaps between L1's..or at least i think so.

[Angry]

I was at school today and I taken my dead KT7a motherboard with me (wrapped in antistaticbag too) and I had my 1ghz chip in it. I took it with me to show a friend teh world of overclocking, or at least how it works and whats this and that of a motherboard.
In 7th period (Sience) I took my chip out of the kt7a and stuck it under a microscope. I was shocked at how much thermal paste was cramped in the nicks and crannies on the cpu, I was also checking the corners of my core, not bad slightly chiped here and there. Well I took a look at the L1 bridges and found that there is a small ditch between the ::::, I mean literaly I saw a ditchs bewteen them. They were of course filled with lead ( I wonder why ;)) I was wonder if its just that the XP has ditches that are much larger or what? I curious about this because I plan on getting at least 1 XP for one of the 3 pc's im building around christmas time.
I would take a pciture of it but I doubt my website designing teacher would let me use his digi camera to take a pic of a cpu...but I sure can try :D.

Laterz

[]-[itman]

What power is the microscope? If it was on a really powerful setting I'd say you're seing stuff that the rest of us can't. There probably are very small trenches in the chip but the XP trenches are big enough for us to see. Just my opinion.

[Angry]

I really dont know what power it is, it is a rather expensive one I know that, I will find out this morning though...
Im off to school...

[plague]

well arent the "locked" AMDs made by just cutting the bridges with a laser? So wouldnt you think there would be some kind of effect on the ceramic under the bridge from it being cut? Just a thought

[Angry]

:rolleyes:

What Im saying is that they are there..just like on the XP's only they are smaller and the XP's larger. and so if while penceling them in you fill them up while at the same time connecting the L1's...Maybe something similar can be done with an XP, I mean the cutz done by the laser are completely filled with pencile lead. I confirmed this today by rechecking out the L1's...Also I even loticed that the "laser" does not make straight cutz, a few of the cutz on the L1's and others are not straight, kinda curved.

[]-[itman]

If you think about it, it's kind of funny. All this time we just thought that the wires were cut and now not only are we discovering pits but we're seeing flaws in the laser cutting lol. Ok does someone else find this funny or is my lack of sleep finally affecting me? BTW I haven't studied the XP trenches very closely yet but wasn't there something about a wire at the bottom of the trenches that couldn't be touched with anything conductive and that's why you have to use non-conductive superglue to fill them? Or am I just really tired and not thinking right?