Wow impressive!

I'm surprised that cpu still works. I received this from a seller:

Its was dead on arrival, I'm guessing from the massively chipped edge at the top of the die but I cant say for sure. ( I say massively but it looks minor compared to yours )

I notified the seller that it was dead and they didnt offer me a 100% refund but a 80% refund instead. I could have made a claim for a 100% refund but instead decided to take the small hit and accept. It was fairly cheap at around $15 USD and the seller paid shipping so instead of making them accept the the claim and have them pay the return shipping and 100% refund I took the $3 loss and kept it for a piece of desk art. Seemed mean to get all my $$ back and make them pay for 2x shipping, I cut them a break.

Judging by brownish compound, I would say it's just overheated.

It's interesting how the Socket A K7s can handle some chips off the sides. I guess they designed it with, shall we call it, ablative armor hehe.

A delidded K6 is very easy to kill.

From my experience K7 were also easy to kill with smallest of chips/cracks. Golden Orb type of coolers were the worst, or people reusing 370 cooler and as in OPs case clipping it wrong way around.

Coppermines on the other hand somehow had much harder die. Must have been somehow treated in the fab to make it tougher.

Ol' Betsy's my worst CPU. Second worst is a low-end Spitfire with pitting but that might be from the manufacturer. Betsy has real war wounds, they sparkle if I get her in the right light.

With all the crazy people there's probably some interesting stories around some of the chipped GPUs.

I had a Duron running for years with a chipped edge, and some Athlon XPS dying instantly as soon as an edge was broken. Let’s say that the exposed core design isn’t very well suited for end-users. No wonder we wnt back to IHS designs later.

Unfortunately dead, but found this poor Athlon 1133 when I was searching for a test Duron for my recent K7S5A, enough to update its BIOS.

I am fairly sure I should be given the maximum punishment for this 🤣

rasz_pl wrote on 2023-09-10, 02:30:

Coppermines on the other hand somehow had much harder die. Must have been somehow treated in the fab to make it tougher.

I've seen an awful lot of chipped Thunderbird/Spitfire chips but somewhat fewer damaged Palominos/Tbreds/Bartons. My hypothesis is that the stiff ceramic base of the earlier models may have to do something with the higher failure rate.

Though Coppermines seem to be even better. Hmmm...