Probably not, but I've had a few Coppermine PIIIs work with minor die damage in the past.

Try it. It could just work.

Based on my experience I'd say this one is dead. You might be lucky, but I'd say it's less than 20% chance that it works.

You're not the first one there, try it out to find if it works. I'd say it should be OK. The only AthlonXP I've seen without chipped edges is NOS I bought from China. All the others had this thing and most worked anyway.

Oh well, it's only a Duron. This is the time when shims became popular accessories, to keep those cores safe.

I think it could still work! I used to have a crumbled Duron 1000 that was in similiar shape
and it ran for 2 years at 1333MHz until it got replaced by a 1800+ Palomino 😁

I would give it a chance to "POST" before recycling it.
These cpus should become rare since they were low-end 14 years ago.

But that is just my guess out of experience.
When I started collecting, old hardware was cheap and in abundance, but today the prices are just crazy.

It's worth a try. I have a bunch of chipped CPUs. Some work, some don't. Yours looks like it has a chance.

I'd also say try it out and see if it works. Looks like it might still work.

Should we take bets? 🤣

I'll go for: It works!

Markot, please let us know 😀

In 2003, at the place I've worked, we put together hundreds of PCs with chipped Athlons. Most of them worked 😉

Problem is that shock will travel trough the chip and that can break it from inside.
But, I think that one will work 😀

I'm going with it'll work. Only casue its already in the system.
I would fit the heatsink better and try, nothing to loose

Did you have time to test it yet? 😁

Why are you even questioning it before you even try it? You got nothing to lose. I've dealt with a number of coppermines and Athlons where the die got chipped around the edges and they were fine.

Hi again,

I finally got some free time and did do a lot today starting from the morning. I had cleaned the CPU earlier this week and after cleaning the it, the CPU didn't look that bad as I initially thought. Earlier this week I had bought some thermal grease and applied it. This was the first time ever I had installed a heat sink myself and I'm happy that it went well.

The biggest problem after installing the heat sink was not the CPU. It did work and computer booted, but I just couldn't get any signal from the S3 Trio video card. So the screen was black all time. I did try with some other old video cards too, but they didn't either work. So I spent extra hours when having to remove the motherboard a couple of times. I suspected a short circuit, but after examining the bottom of the motherboard, couldn't find any evidence of it.

Finally got it anyhow working, but don't still know what was reason for the black screen on computer startup. (The motherboard is AK75-EC and had never heard of it before I got this PC.)

According to the BIOS, the CPU temperature was also okay, so the CPU was not damaged. After this I also installed Windows 98, replaced some IDE cables, new hard drive etc, DVD drive, so there was quite much to do. Finally installed my old Sound Blaster Live (CT4670) card that works well, but doesn't sound as good as I expected in DOS mode when tested some games.

markot wrote:

Finally got it anyhow working, but don't still know what was reason for the black screen on computer startup. (The motherboard is AK75-EC and had never heard of it before I got this PC.)

That's OK. They say, electronics is a science of contacts. If one of a hundred contacts is lost, nothing works. Therefore the easiest way to try to repair an electronic device is take it apart and put it back together. Sometimes things just work afterwards 😀

Oh, the damage was not so bad, it was just the 1st pic that made it look bad!

I guess that wasn't enough to kill it.
Sadly the damage on mine was. At least I got it for free with the motherboard.