my t bird has a dent in it, what should i do??

[mrchan]

I just got a thunderbird 900 and an abit KT7. before putting it in, I notice there is a light dent on the right side of the cpu. not on the corners, but just the middle of the side. I stick it in anyway and it works fine at 1050, but when I run sandra, windows tells me it's created an error and will close, thing is, it runs anway. I've played about an hour of quake 3 and did the torture test with prime 95. Is my sisoft sandra error because of windows or because of the dent in the t-bird? should I exchange it? anyhelp is appreciated. thanks

 

[Imported]

The SiSoft error is SiSoft, not your CPU. I get it all the time..

 

[DaddyG]

Are you really sure that its a dent in the cpu ??. Silicon simply doesn't dent, it breaks. It could be a flaw in the polishing process, but I seriously doubt that the silicon has a dent.

 

[RoadRuner]

post a jpeg of this dent please.

 

[mrchan]

I can't post a picture b/c I don't have a scanner or digital camera. But I'm sure it's a dent. If you run your finger nail along the side,it will get stuck in the little dent. it's probably half the width of a dime and goes in about that far as well. it's really small, but it's definitely there. my t bird only passes the prime 95 torture test at 1000 now, which worries me. the first day, it did 1100, the post day it did 1050, now only 1000 . . . . time for an exchange?

 

[office boy]

Please find someone with a camera then?
PLEASE? I wanta see the dent.

 

[paulip88]

See if redoing the pencil gets your CPU speeds back up. Better use something that is more permamanent.

My Duron ran 50MHz slower after the pencil was used for a day. With some conductive goop, I got that 50MHz back for good.