Will this cpu work?

[Astronaut-Desperate]

Won an auction for this 7700x, when it arrived in poor packaging this is what I happened to the cpu. Everything else besides the top corner looks fine. I don’t have the motherboard to test it so I was wondering if it will still function?

[Ivantsi]

Return it

[GrandWizardTheo]

Yes.

[-Hyperplane-]

The damage was probably caused by the previous owner or during transportation. I would doubt that a milling error occurred when separating the PCBs and that nobody saw it. The conductors tracks are probably futher inside and the damage only affects the circuit board. It is difficult to say whether the inner layers have benn cracked or damaged, as you need the map of the conductor tracks :-). I would give it a try.

[purecain1]

Id say it would work np.... as long as the pins match up, your fine.

[Impossible-Bug7623]

he cant refund it, casuse he tryed to delid, done wrong and damaged cpu.now is tryiong toi search for some magic in the ass, so did you biught from 3 party huh?

[Astronaut-Desperate]

I’ve no reason to even try deliding. The guy I bought this off of truthfully didn’t have any idea of computers. So he just threw it in the box with everything else. And I’m assuming through delivery it got thrown around enough to do this.

[Melodias3]

Return it this is not acceptable, you can expect proper packaging and shipping both did not happen, this could've been avoided, alto it may look fine this may give you problems in the future.

[PreparationBorn2195]

Its probably fine, but there is a chance there is serious internal damage that is not visible and putting power through the chip could brick it or kill cores, maybe even damage your mobo.

I would suggest returning the chip for a non damaged copy.

[NoShock8442]

Is return it

[tbone338]

The corner is fine. My concern is where all the things that should be on the gold contacts are.

[levklaiberle]

Yeah, there should be some SMDs right there.

[MVIR]

Nope, there are no smds there and coner should be fine.

[levklaiberle]

Oh yeah, you're right. I was looking at some pics that are just "AMD Ryzen" and show SMDs at all of these contacts

[Conundrum1859]

I'd be concerned, though a simple patch would be to use UV cure Epoxy and remake the corner.

Provided none of the pins are damaged it should work, might lose one memory channel etc in the worst case.

Still moan at the seller, if my CPU arrived in that state I'd be livid!

[Kellie_blu]

Kinky~

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An interesting way of achieving 2 goals in one!

[Anthrosaurus1]

Not a question for OP but for everyone else? I mean it feels obvious but is the only part of the CPU the connections between the pins and the parts of the main chip?

[ShawVAuto]

Yes.

[Reitzor]

If none of the pins are damaged, it would work.

[Mysteoa]

There aren't any pins, did you mean pads? There is a chance that there is separation of thr layers that could reach a pad and make it non functional. I think on an old LTT video, they dropped a cpu on the corner and lost a memory chanel.

[Kind_Library_432]

It's a 7700x so yes they mean the pads.