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- Jul 4, 2013
- Location
- new york
so i had this old AMD sempron cpu lying around that i had bent the pins on a while ago and decided to try to straighten them just to see if i can get it to work. man that was a painful, slow process, but i finally got it to drop in the socket properly.
i had an overclocked athlon 2 in the rig previously. what i realized when i was at the windows splash screen was that those OC settings for the Athlon might not work for the sempron and might damage it actually. Luckily it didn't and the OC settings were actually pretty stable.
what i was wondering is if it is proper procedure, when changing out a CPU, to boot directly into the BIOS and set it to the default settings first? something i'll have to remember in the future if so.
i had an overclocked athlon 2 in the rig previously. what i realized when i was at the windows splash screen was that those OC settings for the Athlon might not work for the sempron and might damage it actually. Luckily it didn't and the OC settings were actually pretty stable.
what i was wondering is if it is proper procedure, when changing out a CPU, to boot directly into the BIOS and set it to the default settings first? something i'll have to remember in the future if so.