Amd return policy

You broke it, why in the hell would they take it back. Thats like buying a car and crashing it on the way home, and asking for your money back. Suck it up and buy a new one.

1- Yeah, the CPU still works, but will be not stable after few hours or some strong game.
2- I think that AMD return policy or newegg return policy don't cover your problem, this is a problem of the user not from the processor.

what do you mean by not stable? is it possible it could cause damage to my motherboard?

I mean that you can be playing and your PC suddenly shutdown, and maybe the suddenly shutdown can damage your mobo and other components.

Depends on which 2 pins you broke off and where they broke off at - If there is enough of the pin left attached to the CPU to make contact in the socket it may work fine - if not then whatever those 2 pins were for will not work and thus depending on what portion of the chip they are for the CPU will error out anytime info is expected to be sent or received using those 2 pins.

In any case I wouldn't want to take a chance using it - best bet is to trash it and buy a new CPU and be more careful with it !!

It really depends on what two pins they are. A lot of pins are redundant.

you could always measure how much of the pins broke off, and then cut a similar length piece of metal and pop it into the matching pin-holes on the mobo. ive never done such with a cpu, but it works fine with ide HD's. might wanna make the pieces of metal ever so slightly longer to ensure better contact

Best answer selected by CrysisComa.

lmfao!!! yes i have easy overclock switches on my mobo. one flick of that switch will show that cpu whose boss lmao, but seriously thanx everyone for your help. i think im just going to try it out and see what happens, if it doesnt work i have a backup Athlon X2 i can use instead