Chipped Athlon CPU: is it risky?

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  • incapacitance
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    • Jan 2006
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    Chipped Athlon CPU: is it risky?

    I just got an Athlon Tbird from ebay, and I was disappointed to see that the lower right corner of the die is chipped. I've read reports from people who have used chipped CPUs that usually worked but occasionally exhibited problems. I'd like a CPU that works 100% of the time, not 99% of the time. I haven't tried to install it yet (waiting to get back my board). Would you guys be comfortable running it in your system? I'm thinking about asking the seller for a refund. Here's a picture of it:
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    • Rainbow
      Badcaps Legend
      • Aug 2005
      • 1371
      #2
      Re: Chipped Athlon CPU: is it risky?

      It will be probably OK. I have a Duron 700 for testing that's much more damaged (I've bought it like that too...) than your Athlon and it works without any problems.

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        • MD Willington
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          • Sep 2004
          • 702
          #3
          Re: Chipped Athlon CPU: is it risky?

          My Duron 950 looked the same, worked fine... even overclocked a little too.

          You can do the same test the RMA procedure outlines if you are really scared of it...

          Test cpu for RMA

          MD
          Ya'll think us folk from the country's real funny-like, dontcha?

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            • Newbie2
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              • Sep 2005
              • 885
              • Canada
              #4
              Re: Chipped Athlon CPU: is it risky?

              That doesn't look bad. I'm pretty sure that thing will still run fine. The PDF that MD has, incapacitance's chip doesn't look anything like what AMD has in their PDF.
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                • kc8adu
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                  • Nov 2003
                  • 8832
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                  #5
                  Re: Chipped Athlon CPU: is it risky?

                  that chipped corner wont likely hurt it.
                  as long as the die was not cracked its ok.
                  seen lots of those chipped corners worse than that still working.

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