Should I be worried about chips on my Athlon XP Core?

[Scrooge2]

I found a small abrasion on the bottom left corner of my Athlon XP 2600+ barton. It is where the l2 chace is supposed to be. From what I can tell, it's a very small chip only 2-3 mm long. Chip still runs, and I can play games on it. Should I be worried? How does this not effect the CPU? Anyone got some experience with this?

 

[the cobbler]

if it works, don't worry about it

there are a couple guys on XtremeSystems who regularly LAP their CORES and don't have any problems

 

[Scrooge2]

What do you mean by LAP?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

http://www.overclockers.com/tips31/

BTW, I had a duron that had most the edges gone but still overclocked and ran fine.

 

[Zap]

In my experience either the CPU will work perfectly fine or it will be dead. "There is no try."

BTW, I still have a handful of dead socket A CPUs. What should I do with them?

 

[robertk2012]

Can I have them? I have a great Idea but I need a bunch of dead processors.

 

[coolpurplefan]

Originally posted by: Zap
In my experience either the CPU will work perfectly fine or it will be dead. "There is no try."

BTW, I still have a handful of dead socket A CPUs. What should I do with them?

Can you extract the gold from them?

Maybe make a gold tooth?

 

[CP5670]

I have an old Athlon 1.4ghz with numerous chips and cracks all along the edges, but it works just fine. You don't need to worry about it.