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This is how the die looked close up. Needless to say, the CPU does not work.
I want to say that I have installed HUNDREDS of socket A heatsinks INCLUDING the Golden Orb and it's cousin the Chrome Orb and have NEVER chipped a die, cracked ceramic or caused any other damage of the sort. We actually TRIED to break a CPU ON PURPOSE by mounting the heatsink wrong and it took one of us putting ALL OF OUR WEIGHT on the CPU to finally crack the ceramic.
Unfortunately, people are cracking, chipping and breaking these things and are not even realizing that they are doing this damage out of pure CARELESSNESS.
Below is a photo submitted by an individual in a forum. I, for one, would think that if I'm having to bend capacitors out of the way of the heatsink that maybe something is wrong, but not our friend. He actually informed us all that this photo was taken AFTER bending the caps back into their original position as possible. You would think that common sense would dictate that if there was interference in the first place, never mind "touching" the capacitors, why even try?
Now, the above "need" to bend caps out of the way has prompted people to install the Orbs 180 degrees backwards, much in the way the fan was installed in the "can't be right" series, in order to accommodate boards not appropriate for the Orb. Unfortunately, doing this places the center of the Orb off the center of the CPU. You can see in the below photo, the mark left on the GOrb created by the edge of the die.
Note how this is similar to the mark left on the "can't be right" heatsink? Guess what the CPU die looked like.
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