Well finally got round to testing the first Sempron 145 I bought around 2 years ago and it was a half decent chip. 7th Global for wPrime 32M and 1024M (will upload results later) and ran Cinebench at a decent clock too but I was on the wrong OS for that run so the result is shockingly bad

 

Anyway long story short after the board got a little too frost to continue I stripped everything apart and packed it away for another time. When putting the CPU back in it's box I noticed something wasn't quite right

 

 

 

As you can hopefully see from the pic the CPU has 2 horribly bent pins and yet it still managed to run Cinebench @ 6GHz +

 

So how many pins can the CPU live without and still run? Off the top of my head I think one of the pins was a VSS pin and the other some Memory Clock pin (which I thought would be important)

 

VSS I'm sure it can live without since there are many more but just how many can it run without?

 

Cheers guys

 

Lewis.

Had one with 5 cut off.

939/AM2/AM3 chips sometimes work well after severe physical damage (missing pins, chipped PCB corners). Had a few such chips myself. So as long as it works, why should you worry?

I have some with missing pins as well. Not working better or worse

Yeah I was just a bit shocked it worked at all

 

I mean I have a 775 board with 2 bent pins and that will absolutely not boot with anything in.

It depends which pins are damaged. If GND ones there is no problem

just try to remove pins one by one and see when it dosn't work any more

I would rather not do it to this CPU