It’s often advisable to reuse your old hardware in a new system, be it your CPU or another piece of kit, but sometimes this simply isn’t possible. Whether you’ve broken a mounting pin or there’s some other fault, some processors seem almost destined for the recycling bin. Not all chips need suffer this fate, however, as some might serve you well as a display piece instead.

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