I smell a hoax... That chip was nicely socketed, the force needed to
break all those hundreds of pins off would be insane, yet somehow the
socket survives with *no* pins or broken ceramic left? Riiight.
My guess is they cut the hole in the table and motherboard first. For
the shot they rigged the socket to not actually hold anything down, say
by putting off the pins, or grinding off the cam. For the shot they use
a special effects squib (or homegrown improvisation) to blow the chip
off the socket and release some nice smoke.
(looking some more)
Just noticed the socket handle pops up right when the chip comes off...
Potentially solves one critisism, and much harder to fake. The chip is
easilly consuming 300watts of course, let alone peak energies. What I
still find suspicious, is where's the propulsive energy coming from?
This isn't like a cap, where the elctrolite boils and builds up stored
energy over a few seconds, I'd expect it to melt and crack, but I want
one of you people to say that a destructive arc will vapourise enough
material quick enough to get a decent thrust out of it before I belive
this. :)
Wouldn't put it past them to cut a hole in the table first and do
everything else for real, just for th effect....
All I can say is that they use plenty of fireworks in their other movies...
And I am not too sure about the hole in the table / motherboard. It seems
too clean, but maybe I am just too suspicious!
>Just noticed the socket handle pops up right when the chip comes off...
>Potentially solves one critisism, and much harder to fake. The chip is
>easilly consuming 300watts of course, let alone peak energies. What I
>still find suspicious, is where's the propulsive energy coming from?
>This isn't like a cap, where the elctrolite boils and builds up stored
>energy over a few seconds, I'd expect it to melt and crack, but I want
>one of you people to say that a destructive arc will vapourise enough
>material quick enough to get a decent thrust out of it before I belive
>this. :)
There may have been some electrolytics in the hole in the center of the
socket. If there was, and they blew, that could provide the force to cause
the CPU to fly up, and MAYBE the motherboard to get a hole in it.
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Why is the motherboard screwed down to the table? It doesn't move when
the guy pulls off the fan cable, and it doesn't move during the
"explosion".
Why isn't the heatsink clipped to the socket?
Why wasn't the guys fingertips fried when he grabbed the heatsink.
The cable leaving the video card is black, draped over the edge of the
table. The only cable coming back up over the edge of the table to the
monitor is white.
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