Question: This thing broke off my P4 Xeon.. Glue or RMA ?

[Vegito]

One of those capacitor thing fell of the P4 on the top.. its like that stuff you snip off the nvidia graphics card to make it look better.. it's a clean break but not sure if I should glue it back or rma it back.. it's never been install yet... i'll have a picture soon if needed..

 

[dajeepster]

definately RMA it. Glues not a very good conductor, and at the freqs that chips run these days, i wouldn't risk any transient freqs that this might not filter out. I work for a company that manufactures hand held radios, transient freqs are not good in our equipment. We try to engineer them out of our designs whenever they rear thier nasty little heads.

 

[Jwyatt]

if you glue it and then decide to send it back they wont honor it more than likely. With the price of those processors I wouldnt screw with it

 

[bozo1]

If it's never been installed, I'd definitely RMA it. Once it's installed, they probably will just assume you broke it and not cover it.