Did i scratch the GPU Core?

[ziggo0]

Well...i was cleaning off the top of the gpu when i knocked my card off the desk, fell and nailed my work chest. There isa small 3 mm and a 1 mm line in the core its self that is showing up as a brass-y color. I know you can flaten out the top of the core but did this go to deep? It seems to have scratched down to a brass color :bang head

[devilscow22]

it may still work im not sure about how far you can scratch a GPU core. But with my 2800+ amd ive got 2 small chips and it still works fine. Just put it back together and try to boot up, if you get lots of artifacts it went too deep and there nothing you can do about it(to the best of my knowledge)

[ziggo0]

Im re-sitting the hsf now...hopefully it will survive

[Blackmage]

Results? any Artifacts

[winterhavok]

If you use thermal paste, it should get into the scratch that was made when it adheres the hsf to the gpu. Though I figure that if you lapped the GPU, it should not make much of a difference, I never heard of that small of a scratch affecting the chipset, now if it were cracked...

[ziggo0]

Cracked...yea....i just noticed the edge of the gpu has been cracked. I put it in, turned it on. A few pops, a few sparks and it died...thankfully it wasnt my 9800p, R.I.P TI 4200

[CandymanCan]

Sux well at least ur learned a lesson to keep fragile parts closer inside the middle of the desk and not the edge. My mom stepped on my ti4600 along time ago when they like first came out and it broke in half lol , compusa actually returned it and gave me another one also wierd but hey i didnt complain

[winterhavok]

Yes, cracking will for sure do it, because you have broken the bonds of the chip, whether it was in the middle or on an edge.