Crushed my core...damn thing still works!

[The Sauce]

I have an old AXIA T-Bird 1.0 GHz that has been getting bumped around from system to system as a "test" CPU. Yesterday I noticed that an entire corner of the core had been crushed/broken off... And the bloody thing still runs fine! Wierd huh? Think that this thing might run into any problems down the road?

 

[Jayczar]

I have been running a duron 900 with 2 crushed corners
with no problems for about 6 months. I guess your chances
are as good as mine.

 

[Awakened2002]

How do you guys crush em so easily? I'm afraid to even sneeze when i'm dealing with cpu's.

 

[Jayczar]

aaahhhhchooooooo!!!!!!! oops!
Didn't say I crushed it, it was that way
when I got it.

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

often times it still works fine
however sometimes the smallest crack and spell doom

its all about luck, you two seem to be lucky

 

[MatthewF01]

i remember reading a post by someone who said their core was so cracked it was basically rounded off...


crazy.



i have a dead tbird 1.2 lying around that I cracked the core on. Cept thats not what killed it. When I was building my pc and was dumb and ignorant about overclocking [not to mention a little younger; 16.5 now ], i took it out to unlock the multiplier, which i later found out my board didnt support anyway AND that the processor was already unlocked, i think I zapped it with some static or something, cuz it wouldnt work when I put it back in

had to order another one for like $104. Sucks.