Talk about a great week...

[greatscott68]

I just got married this past Saturday, and we're leaving for Cozumel this Saturday. Rewind the clock about 2 weeks or so, and in the middle of getting everything ready for the wedding, my buddy gave me a sweet early wedding gift - a ccbbe 0610dpmw opty 170! I think most of us are familiar with this stepping Anyway, we fired it up in my backup machine - and played CS all night at a nice [email protected]. That was with a pair of Redlines that I haven't figured out yet, and single rad WCing. Could not wait to get it home, and put it in my main machine. My trusty Corsair 3500LL + quadcore WCing - and I was ready to break some personal benchmark records. Then disaster struck. I fired her up - and no boot. I pulled the chip...and I had somehow bent a pin. It basically looked like and "S"... Tried to fix it...and it promptly snapped off. Screwed. Tried a referral in our forum - no return on two emails. Searched the net - and came across an obscure little forum with no posting activity in the past 2 months. Let's see what Google found in this place. Sure enough, the forum admin is an ASE Certified Machinist, who's made these repairs before. $35 and a weeks turnaround from a helluva nice guy - and the 170 just finished a 32m superpi at [email protected]. I'll have an OCDB entry up in a couple weeks, after we get back from sunny Mexico.

 

Life is good. Very good

[boywander]

Wow. Good call - and good luck to you.

[greatscott68]

Wow. Good call - and good luck to you.

 

Thanx I count myself pretty lucky, as the pin initially bent into a couple of others...coulda caused a short. I'm running Orthos at 10x312, so we'll have to see if we have a "pass" in the morning....