Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Intel CPUs easier or harder?

I think its easy enough to bend the pins on an AMD processor that its worth worrying about. The pins on an AMD processor are so fine that you cant experiment or make any mistake. If you do, you will most likely bend the pins. Furthermore, I don't think a blind person can tell which way to orient the CPU in the socket. There is a mark on the CPU that lines up with a mark on the mobo but I don't believe you can feel the mark. But I would agree that it doesn't take someone with knowledge of computer hardware to help you with that. You might even be able to do it with a cell phone camera and a OCR program. I do woodworking and when I use a table saw, I always practice what I'm going to do before I make a cut. I practice the motion I'm going to make with the saw turned off, turn it on, and then do exactly the same motion. It would probably be worth while doing something like that when installing a CPU. All you'd have to do to damage a CPU is to drop it by bumping your elbow as you reached out to install the CPU. Then there's attaching the fan & heat sync. I don't think that's always easy either. I can see how even sighted people could make a mistake doing this stuff. ----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Ben Mustill-Rose Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 5:07 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Intel CPUs easier or harder? Sorry for the double post, but before I was able to build myself, I used to get my mum to build systems for me and she never broke a CPU. If someone like her (VI and with very little hardware knolige) is able to do it, I really don't see why so many fully sighted people find it hard. On 11/1/12, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote:

Hi,

It's very subjective really. I know that's not helpfull at all but I feel it really does depend on how often you've done it; I've done both and I wouldn't really say that ones harder than the other. If as you say we assume that the people who are saying it's hard are sighted, I have to wonder just how good they are at building computers for it to be a problem for them. I'm pretty sure one corner of the cpu is color coded or different visually in such a way that it's obvious which way round it's meant to go, so I really find it hard to understand why lining up a cpu with a socket and gentely placing it in is so hard for them. When you secure the cpu in place with the leaver you do hear a bit of a crunch sound which can be a bit worrying, but theres a cover that flips down around the edges of the socket before you do this and if you've installed it incorrectly (Which you can't do), the cover just won't sit smooth with the rest of the board.

My gut feeling is that which ever cpu you buy there are going to be pins involved so theres always going to be a chance that something gets bent. I'd probably look at what you want to do on the system and then buy the CPU that suits your intended uses best.

Cheers, Ben.

On 11/1/12, John G. Heim wrote:

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The last time I built a PC, I got an AMD CPU partially because I had read lots of messages from people (presumably sighted people) talking about how they damaged their mobo trying to install an Intel CPU. Apparently, the pins are on the mobo. You close the lever and the pins are inserted into the CPU. But apparently, its easy to mess that up. That scared me considerably. Its pretty easy to bend the pins on an AMD CPU but that can be fairly easily fixed. Although you'd probably need someone who can see to do it.

Comments?

I am currently shopping for a mobo and CPU. I just built a PC about a year ago but I gave it to my wife when hers crashed. I came pretty close to buying a quad-core Intel CPU and Asus mobo. I kind of chickened out at the last minute. Also, with 16Gb of RaM it would have been $350. I don't know if I need to spend that much. I'm thinking I might end up going with components similar to what I bought a year ago, quad-core AMD CPU, Asus mobo, 8Gb RAM.

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