What are the possible consiquence of a chipped Athlon?

[bootykika]

Recently I did somthing stupid and chipped a corner off the core of my 1.2 ghz Athlon. But to my suprise it still booted up and ran. My question is: What are the possible consiquence of using this gimmped Athlon? Data corruption? Higher idle temps? Slower proceessing?

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AMD Athlon 1.2 ghz
2 x 128 Mushkin DDR Ram
Epox EP-8k7a
Maxtor Diamondmax 40GB
Maxtor somthing 8.2GB
Sony 8x12x32 CDRW
Pioneer 10x DVDrom
TNT2 16mb
Win2k SP2

 

[Mingon]

It will either work or not simple as that.

 

[dkozloski]

The core silicon that you see is the building block or foundation of the processor. It can have a corner knocked off or an edge damaged but as long as the processor elements(traces, junctions, leads, so forth) are not damaged it "don't hurt the runnin' of it none"(Tobacco Road).

 

[Bakwetu]

Just chipped my 1.2 ghz too, even though I was doing everything by the book 🙁 Fortunately, it still works.

 

[McCarthy]

I've chipped some chunks off my Tbird 650. Somehow it still works - when brand new it wouldn't overclock past 800 (post up to 900 something, but locks even at 830 regardless of temp/voltage so I leave it at 800) All these chips later, still 800, still stable.

Lapped it, somewhat by accident..had a piece of Globalwin STUCK in the enclosed area of the A on Athlon (from the original ROUGH surface, should have lapped it to start with), instead of picking at it too hard I decided to just lap it a stroke or two to make sure it wasn't higher....that much and I saw the outline of something copper appear through the top! Whatever that outline was, it went to the edges, but had nice rounded corners, don't know what layer it was, but I just about got into it...anyway, it doesn't go TO the corner, so that's good. Makes me think I can chip more! 🙂

 

[WarCon]

I chipped my 600 Duron and my AVHA 1ghz T-bird. The AVHA wasn't affected at all even though I chipped it in more spots (put my waterblock on it and I think my clamping pressure was too high). The Duron lost 50mhz of overclocking ability, but it might of been from getting hot because a tiny piece of core got between the core and heatsink and I had to pull both and clean thoroughly (thought it was dead) and it booted back up but wasn't stable at 950 anymore.