Damaged Processor Questions

[AJXCR]

Alright, so I bought a set of E5-4655v3's from a local seller this evening, but failed to notice the damage to one processor denoted by the red arrow in the attached pictures:

Interestingly, both processors post and boot into windows (individually) and score the same on Cinebench.. How can this be? What exactly am I looking at?

Thanks,
Craig

 

[Terry Kennedy]

Interestingly, both processors post and boot into windows (individually) and score the same on Cinebench.. How can this be? What exactly am I looking at?

It is a bypass capacitor, used to reduce noise, usually on power lines.

 

[AJXCR]

It is a bypass capacitor, used to reduce noise, usually on power lines.

Is this "operable, but long term use not recommended" or "get it out of your system immediately" damage? I've contacted the seller to see what he'll do for me..

 

[Terry Kennedy]

Is this "operable, but long term use not recommended" or "get it out of your system immediately" damage? I've contacted the seller to see what he'll do for me..

My guess is that it will increase the chance of some types of random errors, but won't damage either your motherboard or the processor. Bypass caps are generally one of the areas that get Muntzed, so it may not have any effect at all in your application.

 

[Rand__]

Make sure to test it thoroughly for your use case and intended hardware ...
I had a retial CPU once which apparently had some damaged internals (not visible), it only accepted singe rank dimms in a specific slot and disabled some pci-e expansion slots, the other stuff was working fine...