Quick Question about scratch on chip

snedman

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I am looking at a P4 2.66 Intel it has a razor blade scratch on the top of the chip. Will this impair the chip in anyway??

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Acanthus

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as long as its all on the metal it shouldnt hurt a thing, thats the heat spreader and its just a piece of al over the core to help dissapate heat more efficiently away from the core.

It should be fine as long as the green area around the edge of the chip wasnt damaged.
 

myocardia

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Originally posted by: Acanthus
as long as its all on the metal it shouldnt hurt a thing, thats the heat spreader and its just a piece of al over the core to help dissapate heat more efficiently away from the core.

It should be fine as long as the green area around the edge of the chip wasnt damaged.

Snedman, only the 2.60's have the heat spreader, if I remember right. If it actually has a scratch on the core, like you said in your post, then it may very well affect the chip... BTW, it obviously isn't a good OCing chip, or it wouldn't be for sell!
 

Shimmishim

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Originally posted by: myocardia
Originally posted by: Acanthus
as long as its all on the metal it shouldnt hurt a thing, thats the heat spreader and its just a piece of al over the core to help dissapate heat more efficiently away from the core.

It should be fine as long as the green area around the edge of the chip wasnt damaged.

Snedman, only the 2.60's have the heat spreader, if I remember right. If it actually has a scratch on the core, like you said in your post, then it may very well affect the chip... BTW, it obviously isn't a good OCing chip, or it wouldn't be for sell!

you can't assume someone is just selling cuz it didn't o/c well!

i've sold two p4's that have done 3.45 and 3.5 stable from 2.4
 

RalfHutter

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Originally posted by: myocardia
Originally posted by: Acanthus
as long as its all on the metal it shouldnt hurt a thing, thats the heat spreader and its just a piece of al over the core to help dissapate heat more efficiently away from the core.

It should be fine as long as the green area around the edge of the chip wasnt damaged.

Snedman, only the2.60's have the heat spreader, if I remember right. If it actually has a scratch on the core, like you said in your post, then it may very well affect the chip... BTW, it obviously isn't a good OCing chip, or it wouldn't be for sell!

Huh? You're not remembering right.

Every desktop P4 CPU has an IHS, including the 2.66. The only P4's that don't have an IHS are the mobile versions.

 

myocardia

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Snedman, only the2.60's have the heat spreader, if I remember right. If it actually has a scratch on the core, like you said in your post, then it may very well affect the chip... BTW, it obviously isn't a good OCing chip, or it wouldn't be for sell!


Huh? You're not remembering right.

Every desktop P4 CPU has an IHS, including the 2.66. The only P4's that don't have an IHS are the mobile versions.[/quote]



This link shows P4's with and without the IHS. Although, you are right about the 2.66 having one. So, that means that Snedman got confused, or it means that the guy who has it for sell highly modified the chip. Anyway, Snedman, like I said the first time, a scratch on the IHS means abosolutely nothing, but a scratch on the core is a definite no-no. I wouldn't buy it, unless it still has the IHS attached.
 

RalfHutter

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Originally posted by: myocardia
Snedman, only the2.60's have the heat spreader, if I remember right. If it actually has a scratch on the core, like you said in your post, then it may very well affect the chip... BTW, it obviously isn't a good OCing chip, or it wouldn't be for sell!

Huh? You're not remembering right.

Every desktop P4 CPU has an IHS, including the 2.66. The only P4's that don't have an IHS are the mobile versions.



This link shows P4's with and without the IHS. [/quote]

No, the only pictures of P4's in that link show it with the IHS and one shows the underside of the chip.

 

myocardia

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Originally posted by: RalfHutter
Originally posted by: myocardia
Snedman, only the2.60's have the heat spreader, if I remember right. If it actually has a scratch on the core, like you said in your post, then it may very well affect the chip... BTW, it obviously isn't a good OCing chip, or it wouldn't be for sell!

Huh? You're not remembering right.

Every desktop P4 CPU has an IHS, including the 2.66. The only P4's that don't have an IHS are the mobile versions.



This link shows P4's with and without the IHS.

No, the only pictures of P4's in that link show it with the IHS and one shows the underside of the chip.[/quote]
Okay, brainiac, tell me why I see a P4 core (not an IHS) halfway down the page? Are you telling me that my eyesight is so good, that I can see a core through an IHS??

edited for rashness!
 

Jeff7181

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Originally posted by: myocardia
Originally posted by: RalfHutter
Originally posted by: myocardia
Snedman, only the2.60's have the heat spreader, if I remember right. If it actually has a scratch on the core, like you said in your post, then it may very well affect the chip... BTW, it obviously isn't a good OCing chip, or it wouldn't be for sell!

Huh? You're not remembering right.

Every desktop P4 CPU has an IHS, including the 2.66. The only P4's that don't have an IHS are the mobile versions.



This link shows P4's with and without the IHS.

No, the only pictures of P4's in that link show it with the IHS and one shows the underside of the chip.
Okay, brainiac, tell me why I see a P4 core (not an IHS) halfway down the page? Are you telling me that my eyesight is so good, that I can see a core through an IHS?? Get a life, nimwit.

Call me crazy, but I don't see ANY CPU's on there that don't have a heat spreader.
 

Jeff7181

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Originally posted by: myocardia
Jeff, look further-- down. It was about 2/3 of the way down the page. ;)

Sorry... there's no P4's with exposed cores on that webpage.
 

myocardia

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Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Originally posted by: myocardia
Jeff, look further-- down. It was about 2/3 of the way down the page. ;)

Sorry... there's no P4's with exposed cores on that webpage.
Ralf, you have my apologies! When I went searching Intel's website for heat spreaders, by the time that I finally found what (I thought) I was looking for, I had about 5 or 6 pages open. I found two pictures, one processor with an IHS, onw without. I'm still not sure that both were P4's, because it didn't say "Here's a P4 with an IHS, and here's one without". It just said here's one with the heat spreader, and the proc. beside it might have been anything. I assumed that both were P4's, but while switching back and forth between the pages, I obviously copied the wrong page's web address, and put it in as a link. Then, instead of "revisiting" the page, through the link, I just presumed that you weren't looking very hard, because you didn't want to find it. Since I've been away from Intel for years, I should have just kept my hand away from the reply button! I'll try to keep that in mind from now on.

Telling myself, "Robert, you know about Athlon's, not P4's. Robert, you only know about Athlon's, not P4's..."