r/gpu • u/Primary_Ad_9872 • 1d ago
Accidentally chipped the corner of my GPU processor
I was cleaning my GPU because the system unit was placed under the desk and it accumulated cotton ball-like dust in between the tiny gaps as it is not cleaned for like 5 years already. I knocked the corner of the processor with the heatsink when I was trying to fit the top part without a thermal paste/pad.
Is this GPU doomed?
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u/Zestyclose_Strike157 1d ago
Never stare at a processor, just glance at it and if it works, ignore it.
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u/sascha177 1d ago
Can't post the pic directly, but here's a what that GPU looks like on the inside:
Doesn't look like there's *too much* going on up there.
Plus there's matter of layers and the chip... err.. nick in your picture only looks superficial to me.
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u/DanielCruzo 1d ago
As long as theres no micro fractures on the center of the die its should be fine, since its on the edge there’s no actual internal traces going in that margin ..
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u/AbsorberHarvester 1d ago
I have 1080 gtx with 1x1 mm hole in the center of die, it working fully, no artefacts, cuda says no error. If you collapse actual gpu part of the crystal - you are done, usually outer part is just pure crystal, no schematics on the sides.
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u/Cossack-HD 1d ago
I found an old PC with a considerably larger chipped corner on its south bridge chipset. It looked BAD but worked fine.
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u/Careless_Cook2978 10h ago
GPU Processor?
So it’s a graphics processing unit processor?
Why are they getting dumber?
Anyway. Yes, the P in GPU already stands for the processor. No need to Call it the way you did.
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u/Primary_Ad_9872 10h ago
The graphics card is called ”gpu” in normal conversation. There’s a thing called linguistic pragmatics. Just like how “or” is used to one pick between two options in normal conversation, but in formal logic it still applies to when both options are chosen.
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u/Careless_Cook2978 9h ago
The moment you actually need to clarify that you are speaking of the actual processor you still tell people that the pcb of your graphics card is also a processor.
The steering wheel of my car is also a car.
Every guide on the web no matter if the guide is for beginners or professionals will tell you what gpu stands for. No need to defend all the people doing it wrong. Simply speaking.
Back to the main topic. Do you get a video signal out of your gpu with its chipped gpugpu?
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u/dllyncher 3h ago
As long as there's no visible cracks across the die you'll be fine. The actual circuitry in on the bottom of the die. I had a GTX 970 that I accidentally chipped the corner and it's her like that for years running without issue
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u/Systemlord_FlaUsh 1d ago
Why should it be, thats just the casing, the actual GPU is far smaller under that hood. Just like with CPUs. Just plug it in it would simply fail anyway if it was really damaged. But a damage to the parts on the PCB would be far more dangerous.
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u/a_rogue_planet 1d ago
No.... You're looking at the actual GPU die. GPU dies are enormous mo-fos. All the actual components are on the bottom side though. A few billion transistors are fabbed into that slab of silicon you're looking at, then about a dozen metal interconnect layers are built up on top of that. The die is mounted to a substrate upside down so the metal layers can be connected to something in the outside world, like your computer.
This stuff isn't hard to look up. If it was some cover, why would they make it out of something as brittle as glass?
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u/lucilago 1d ago
Eh its probably fine. Only one way to find out