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CRAP Scratched CPU!

"kind of" ?!?
you messed that cpu up pretty bad! it will probably still work. CPUs are much heartier than people think. no guarantees though.
 
I think it might work I can't even tell where that is exactly but I have chipped cores before so this "may" work
 
HA! AMD started using a protective coating to prevent the joining and cutting of bridges. It looks like that self same coating has saved your CPU. Doesn't look like you damaged the traces.
 
Originally posted by: JBT
I think it might work I can't even tell where that is exactly but I have chipped cores before so this "may" work
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yea my old athlon 1700's top edge is all chipped up. the whole top side of the core doesn't have a defined edge anymore,its all broken up

still works 😀
 
Originally posted by: AWhackWhiteBoy
Originally posted by: JBT
I think it might work I can't even tell where that is exactly but I have chipped cores before so this "may" work
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yea my old athlon 1700's top edge is all chipped up. the whole top side of the core doesn't have a defined edge anymore,its all broken up

still works 😀
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guess you didn't look at the pic,the core isn't scratched the substrate is.
 
yeah that isn't bad

i've killed an athlon before by cutting bridges too deep
and i found to do that i had to cut back and forth with a razor knife a few times pressing firmly

the problem is there are traces under there
and there is also a solid copper layer
if you cut and cause any traces to contact this layer then you get the problems

or if you cut any traces or connected a trace to another trace from the distortion of the surface from that screw driver

it should work
good luck

 
one more reason to buy an intel chip. 🙂

no messing with multipliers,but you dont need to, intel chipsets can handle the higher fsb. 😉
 
Originally posted by: Budman
one more reason to buy an intel chip. 🙂

no messing with multipliers,but you dont need to, intel chipsets can handle the higher fsb. 😉
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No messing with multipliers because you CAN'T not because you don't want to.
Also, 266 and 333 fsb athlons overclock very well and aren't as reliant on the FSB and expensive DC memory throughput to compensate for heavy branch mispredict penalties.
Not that any of what either of us are saying here has ANY relevance to this thread.
 
Originally posted by: AIWGuru
Originally posted by: Budman
one more reason to buy an intel chip. 🙂

no messing with multipliers,but you dont need to, intel chipsets can handle the higher fsb. 😉
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No messing with multipliers because you CAN'T not because you don't want to.
Also, 266 and 333 fsb athlons overclock very well and aren't as reliant on the FSB and expensive DC memory throughput to compensate for heavy branch mispredict penalties.
Not that any of what either of us are saying here has ANY relevance to this thread.
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very relevent, wouldnt happen with an intel chip,but then this thread would not exist if he bought an intel chip because intel solved that problem long ago.
 
Originally posted by: Budman
Originally posted by: AIWGuru
Originally posted by: Budman
one more reason to buy an intel chip. 🙂

no messing with multipliers,but you dont need to, intel chipsets can handle the higher fsb. 😉
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No messing with multipliers because you CAN'T not because you don't want to.
Also, 266 and 333 fsb athlons overclock very well and aren't as reliant on the FSB and expensive DC memory throughput to compensate for heavy branch mispredict penalties.
Not that any of what either of us are saying here has ANY relevance to this thread.
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very relevent, wouldnt happen with an intel chip,but then this thread would not exist if he bought an intel chip because intel solved that problem long ago.
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Not relevant since he wasn't trying to unlock the multiplyer. That damage is nowhere near any of the bridges. From his responses, he doesn't even know what they are. So suggesting that Intel's CPUs are better because you'd never be caught trying to cut bridges (which he wasn't doing) is only flamebait. If you really want to go that route, I guess I could point out that Intel's stock TIM rips the massive surface area'd procesor right out of the socket destroying pins and the processor frequently because of this ingenius design. Of course, then I'd be feeding a troll who trying to ruin a thread with zeolotry.
 
"Kind of." LOL. Replace the words "kind of" with "repeatedly" and I won't be laughing so hard.

I'm glad it still works, but please, use high quality tools and the right tool for the job.
 
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