CPU transplant successful!

The Xeon W3690 transplant was a success!

Time to give the computer a brain transplant pic.twitter.com/rPINPIDEq9

— imabug (@imabug) December 22, 2018

First, the dust bunnies get evicted pic.twitter.com/3zTbsXTTHF

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Ick pic.twitter.com/r0tqeTQQRc

— imabug (@imabug) December 22, 2018

Time to begin. Off with the cooler. pic.twitter.com/6kpCGdIGbQ

— imabug (@imabug) December 22, 2018

Out comes the i7-930 and in goes the Xeon W3690 pic.twitter.com/hK6FrMrCRM

— imabug (@imabug) December 22, 2018

A dab of thermal paste spread over the CPU (a little bit goes a long way) and the cooler goes back on pic.twitter.com/Y0CmnwO5ui

— imabug (@imabug) December 22, 2018

Now to close up and plug everything back in to see if the surgery was successful pic.twitter.com/mPYu1LwHf5

— imabug (@imabug) December 22, 2018

Moment of truth… *drumroll* pic.twitter.com/HplaUoHqhk

— imabug (@imabug) December 22, 2018

Seems like a good sign pic.twitter.com/fgX6RZacNq

— imabug (@imabug) December 22, 2018

BIOS seems to have accepted the new CPU pic.twitter.com/STh2Iz2f4d

— imabug (@imabug) December 22, 2018

Woohoo! 6 cores and 12 threads! pic.twitter.com/xz3E1nPVsm

— imabug (@imabug) December 22, 2018

Cutting edge of 2011, here I come! pic.twitter.com/YXjeQIxGO5

— imabug (@imabug) December 22, 2018