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Is this athlon XP dead?

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I bought this athlon xp through the MM ages ago as an update to my shuttle. I was very busy when it came and just opened it, noticed that it was quite 'dirty' but didn't look too closely. Later I checked it and found that not only was it covered in gunk but the edges of the cpu itself are chipped. I know they were prone to this if people didn't take care with the heatsinks and it could kill the chip but I am not sure how bad this is. I don't want to go through the hassle of installing it to find it doesn't work or is unreliable.

My shuttle currently has a sempron 2200 in it so this wouldn't be a huge upgrade but the extra cache should make a bit of difference. I know it is pretty old now but I won't be upgrading the whole thing for a while and it runs reliably at the moment.

Are the chips on this bad enough to effect the operation of the cpu and if I installed it and it appeared to run, how could I check that it is ok, or is it just a case of it either runs or it doesn't?

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You'll have to try it to see.

But I've seen worse examples that worked fine.
 
as above, all you can do is try and see - it doesnt have any signs of crack thru, which is the worst possible damage.

i used to have a duron 1100 (ahhaa stepping, what a legend) that lost a big chunk. fromt hat day on, it worked perfectly. unless i wanted to use a D3D game. in which case it crashed horribly. OGL/stability tests all worked fine tho...
 
Thanks for the replies. What would be a good stress program to test it with? Will these programs test all of the chip's functionality - I don't want to think it is ok and then find it has problems with certain things like amonlym.
 
I sold an XP1700 that was much worse than that pic, even had a chunk out of the corner. I never got more than 2.3ghz out of it, but the chap who bought it got it running 24/7 Prime stable @ 2.42ghz :eek: So drop it in and see what it'll do :)
 
Dotn waste your time testing the CPU with any apps...

If it starts up, the CPU wil be fine... It either works or it does not work, there is no half way with a CPU.

( Go on, be that 0.00001% that proves me wrong then )
 
I've seen 'working' cpus fail certain applications or cause errors where a same cpu from about the same batch and same cooling did it flawlessly, rare but not unheard of.
 
FatRakoon said:
Dotn waste your time testing the CPU with any apps...

If it starts up, the CPU wil be fine... It either works or it does not work, there is no half way with a CPU.

( Go on, be that 0.00001% that proves me wrong then )
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Ok then

ive had cache burn out on one of my chips, how else would it go missing ;)
 
Ok ok ok... There are cases when this does happen, we all know that, but the number of CPUs out there compared with the number of issues leaves a very miniscule number of CPUs that actually have problems...

Then again... Intels Allendales are all messed up Caches and so have been halved because they failed tests...
 
just test it if it doesn't boot its a dead, then you can try and get your cash back maybe?
 
Seen much worser and had worser myself, fact my 1st athlon xp ocuk decided to sell Intel socket coolers that were incompatible with the AthlonXP series which led to crushed core outbreak ;)

Ive had a core which was literally crushed on all sides and it still worked fine dunno how lol
 
man your looks still kk mine cracked in the middle and and now does not even boot i'll take some pictures of it some day :)
 
First ever Socket A chip for me personally was a 1200 T-Bird, i had installed about 200+ socket A chips before without a hitch, now, with my own.. i took no care and heard 'crunch', "well that can't be good!" i thought! A chunk off the side of the substrate was stuck to the heatsink.. lordie. Surpsringly it worked and later on i got 1.35GHz @ 1.8v from it which was good in those early pre-axia stepping days :D
 
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