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    [SOLVED] Small circuit board that was soldered to the CPU

    Why do some CPU models have a small circuit board with them (like the Intel Xeon Prestonia and Intel Itanium 2)? What is their purpose? What if we desolder the chip out of the board(because these models of CPU are BGA chips)? Is the chip itself still functional?