1st off: Why all these reviews spamming the hardware section?!
edit: OK, i see why now, Spondoolies-Tech doing Spondoolie things... making some smile, and some so bitter they never got one (people even calling it a scam, wow!)
2nd, nice review! now i want one.. time to sell my POS car
3rd:
Sexy!
The chipped corners reminds me of amd xp, durons... nice times!
It would be nice to have a miner with lga775(or newer) socket mounting holes! then i can be motivated to repair my cascade system for -80c cooling
Does broken corner affect performance? My broken chip runs at 500 Hz comparing with other chips running at 650Hz
Very unlikely.
the worst it would do is destroy a few calculation units, what it would most likely do is make the chip miscalculate a nonce, and give you ether hardware errors or just plain rejections. it wouldn’t slow it down in any way, just error out like mad.
thinking back to my AthlonsXP days too, i had one with a large chip that took out half of the L2 cache, it would run without an issue, but once i pushed it with data processing (moving files or calculation prime) it just die. i used it for net surfing, but i avoided large pages, it tend to kill it too.
i could go on about these cpus, like the old pencil trick, how i let out its magical blue smoke, etc, but that's for the offtopic sections.