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chipped SoA

Mr-White

Mr-White

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Bought an xp3200 off ebay which turned up this morning and inspecting the core its chipped along one edge. I know these are pretty fragile as the cores are exposed and proned to chipping but I've had worse and still worked fine. I'm currently installing windows with it and will prime95 it later but as it wasn't described as chipped, is this a good enough reason to get a refund ? If it matters I paid with paypal.

MW
 
I've had SoA chips with worse damage and still worked fine but it was the fact that it wasn't mentioned in the auction that kinda got to me.

Have been running it since yest and had 2 lock ups so don't think it's 100% stable as i need it to be :(

MW
 
None of my SoA CPUs have ever been chipped even when i was water and phase cooling them and i didn't realise people sold on chipped CPUs :confused:

The auction specified used but did not specify there were chips, as i mentioned to the guy he should have described everything that was different from when it was new. If i had known there were chips i probably wouldn't have bid on it.

I did not have a knee jerk reaction, if i was to buy something by mistake i'm not the person who would ask for a refund. i would sell it on my self but then who's to say the person i sold it onto wouldn't have the same reaction as me.

He offered me £10 off but the price was never the issue and he agreed to give me a refund if i paid for the postage back.

MW
 
Justintime said:
If the core is fine, then the chips are only cosmetic, and once under a heatsink will not be seen. Since it actually POSTed, then its usually 100% fine as once the core itself is chipped it'd be 99.9% toasted. Well i guess you know now if you get a chipped cpu in the future and it works.
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It works now but for how long and how much damage before it's permanent as when they do chip they tend to crumble ? i'd rather not take the risk.

MW
 
I got a refund in the end, the seller was quite good about it and everything went smoothly so i left him good feedback.

MW
 
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