Is My Processor Dead?

Thanks in Advance,

Ive created a web page to view my processor?
The carbon cover has been damaged at pin1 on my AMD processor?
Is it for the bin or will it be okay?

Click below to view images....

http://www.wizard2010.co.uk/chip

Mark Scott wrote:
 > Thanks in Advance,
 >
 > Ive created a web page to view my processor?
 > The carbon cover has been damaged at pin1 on my AMD processor?
 > Is it for the bin or will it be okay?
 >
 > Click below to view images....
 >
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.wizard2010.co.uk/chip</font" target="_blank">http://www.wizard2010.co.uk/chip</font</a>>

Looks like somebody is a bit of a vandal.

As long as there are no pins touching each other it'll either work or not, I
can't see you damaging anything with it.

Basically it's only the central raised core that is the "CPU" the rest is
packaging, allowing all the pins to be fitted on.

You say pin 1 has been lifted, well I can't really see that 'cos the images
are either out of focus or too dark or from the wrong angle, but as long as
they all go in the socket in the correct places you should be ok.

Ben
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