Chipped a corner of Athlon cpu - fixable, bitchable?

[ricosuave]

Hi all,

Installing a new heatsink and fan on my Athlon XP 1700+, and in doing so, it appears that I ever-so-slightly chipped the corner - damn thing anyway!

I'd like to know if these are fixable in any way, or if I have any leeway to send em back to AMD - I mean, what a crap design! I was very careful, lined it all up, etc...

Help!

rico

[eblend]

had that happen to me too...if its the corner of the shiney little peice on the middle, then ur sol, sorry dude, i had that happen once but it was almost not noticable, took it back tothe store and they exchanged it for me

[ricosuave]

dammit, thats what i was afraid of...

i cantually have 2 - after the last one happened, i was rel, real careful

dumb design if you ask me...

rico

[hampstor]

yep it's a shitty design! When AMD went back to a socket (vs their brief thing w/ slot mounted cpus) they didn't want to use a heat spreader due to mis-labelling. Back in the k6 days, people would lap the metal cap, then relabel the cpu as something else :D

Pickup a 10 dollar shim and then it won't happen again :p

[ShadowDragonx]

see if u get lucky and see if it works still

just run prime 95 and see if u get any issues

[ricosuave]

i was using a shim - thats the problem!

and as fas as your commend, shadow, they wont even boot up anymore...

rico

[ShadowDragonx]

Originally posted by ricosuave
i was using a shim - thats the problem!

and as fas as your commend, shadow, they wont even boot up anymore...

rico

time to get a new processor

[hampstor]

time to go to socket 754/939 cpus! No more cracking the core when mounting on heatsinks!