Just scratched my processor core? Should I even install it?

[Busie23]

I was trying to put somrthing together real quick cause my other computer went down and in the rush of getting it together I scratched/chipped and edge of the core. Should I even bother cleaning off the rest of the thermal compound and installing it in my pc?

 

[ScrapSilicon]

ymmv

 

[Spikey217]

Ouch. What CPU was it? Hope it wasn't anything too high-end/expensive.

 

[jemcam]

What've you got to lose? Might as well try it. I've got a 800 mhz Duron in one of my machines that's chipped to hell and back, but it works fine. OTOH, I chipped the corner of a Tbird once and it's toast. My 5 year old son now has it as one of his spy gadgets.

 

[rpc64]

It might work it might not. Only one way to find out....

 

[Brutuskend]

It should be OK.

But it you want, you could lap it in....

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Busie23
I was trying to put somrthing together real quick cause my other computer went down and in the rush of getting it together I scratched/chipped and edge of the core. Should I even bother cleaning off the rest of the thermal compound and installing it in my pc?

Sure. It totally depends on how bad and where the chip is, it very well may still be alive.

 

[Jmman]

It very well might work.....no way to tell until you install it....

 

[Zim Hosein]

Personally, I'd try it, good luck Busie23

 

[Busie23]

Its an athlon thunderbird 1.2ghz. It happened on the middle of one of the edges. Theres nothing to loose except time. I just started to get all of the thermal compound crap off, but nothing is taking it off.

 

[SnapIT]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Personally, I'd try it, good luck Busie23

Definently, good luck!

 

[Spikey217]

Originally posted by: Busie23
Its an athlon thunderbird 1.2ghz. It happened on the middle of one of the edges. Theres nothing to loose except time. I just started to get all of the thermal compound crap off, but nothing is taking it off.

Rubbing alcohol works for me. AS3 comes right off.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Busie23
Its an athlon thunderbird 1.2ghz. It happened on the middle of one of the edges. Theres nothing to loose except time. I just started to get all of the thermal compound crap off, but nothing is taking it off.

Use rubbing alcohol.

 

[Busie23]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: Busie23
Its an athlon thunderbird 1.2ghz. It happened on the middle of one of the edges. Theres nothing to loose except time. I just started to get all of the thermal compound crap off, but nothing is taking it off.

Use rubbing alcohol.

It was some OEM stuff that was hard as a rock. It was pink and nothing softened it up until I hit it with some carb cleaner. Meanwhile I managed to scrath it up even more!

 

[lenjack]

Go for it. Nothing to lose. Probably will work fine.

 

[NokiaDude]

I have a tiny chip off the corner of my 1.33Ghz T-Bird and it's still going strong.

 

[jemcam]

Naptha is available at any hardware store (~$5 for a quart can) and will cut through anything. Just make sure to clean the naptha with rubbing alcohol when you get it clean to remove any naptha residue.

 

[Busie23]

pic: you can see it all along that bottom edge.

Core

 

[pillage2001]

Originally posted by: Busie23
pic: you can see it all along that bottom edge.

Core

You should be alright. I've seen worse than that.

 

[WA261]

Damn....I thought you said a "scratch". I bet that thing is toast... not being a jerk, but that look spretty bad.

I do wish you the best of luck, though.

 

[dinde]

dude. it wasnt u who did it. remember, it was like that outta the box, remember?!

 

[Busie23]

Well, I fired it up and it booted to a 98 boot disk ok. I'll know in about an hour when I hook my hard drive back up (left it at girlfriends) if it's alive.

 

[WA261]

Sweet! Glad to hear it

 

[pillage2001]

Originally posted by: Busie23
Well, I fired it up and it booted to a 98 boot disk ok. I'll know in about an hour when I hook my hard drive back up (left it at girlfriends) if it's alive.

Told ja.

 

[Wind]

To add a piece of mind to u. I had an XP 2200+ rev A chipped on 3 corners + 1 in the middle-edge. If ran fine @ stock...now running 2 GHz (12 X 166)...stable.

From the pic...u will be fine. Mine is worst + its on 3 of the 4 corners.