BROKEN PIN ON PHENOM II X4 940

Well thats odd. i though when a pin broke, a cpu doesn't run. im going to have to look into it further.

the majority of the pins are required for it to work, but a few are there just to ensure that you insert it the correct way and so that you can't insert it into an incompatible socket so you may have been lucky, but also if you are only using single channel memory you may also be able to get away with breaking some other pins, the same goes for if you have the HT set to 8bit rather than 16bit.

Breaking a pin is not likely to cause stability issues, it'll either work of not work. But if you are currently using single channel RAM and later upgrade to dual channel you may find that it doesn't work, but can't say for sure without testing it.

I think it would depend on which pin you broke, clearly you were very lucky! Not all the pins on a processor are signal pins, a large number are various power supply pins many of these are duplicated in order to spread the load, or for convenience in layout of the package. Like pins are joined electrically internally. This means you can probably get away with disconnecting some with no effect whatsoever. Furthermore, not all pins are connected anyway.

As an example, processors have many tens of ground pins, which are all electrically connected internally.

thank you to all..iam not a overclocker, i use it for rendering 3d animation project..so far its stable. i check by benchmark using 3d benchmark and i have 12K result.
@devastator : i am using dual channel mem, when i see at cpuz it still working, i dont know how to test with other software.
@dunklegend : i broke at the right end pin from little triangle if you rotate cpu 180o from its socket.what is mean??
thanks..
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If its a full retail boxed CPU then you have a three year warranty direct with AMD.
Not 100% sure if broken pins are covered but it might be worth contacting them to find out.

IMO I know that some of the pins are just for mounting and ground, but it would always worry me, what if that pin was for soemthing importnant that Im not using right now.....