How can I find out if my CPU is damaged. There is some phyisical damage to one of the corners but i need to know if it is affecting my computer's perfomance.
How can I find out if my CPU is damaged. There is some phyisical
damage to one of the corners but i need to know if it is affecting my
computer's perfomance.
It would be a minor miracle if you managed to physically damage a CPU in
any way that made it run with reduced performance. 99.9% of damaged CPUs
don't run, period.
If by 'corner' you mean the corner of the ceramic substrate (the 1"
square brown bit) you are probably OK. If you damaged a corner of the
actual silicon chip or 'die' (which is exposed on most AMD CPUs) that is
normally 100% fatal.
How can I find out if my CPU is damaged. There is some phyisical
damage to one of the corners but i need to know if it is affecting my
computer's perfomance.
Download, install and run Prime95. (Options|Torture Test|Blend|) If it runs
8 hours without a hiccup, the CPU is very likely fine. Have the hardware set
to stock speeds and timings.
