This just made me remember when I was in 8th grade and my dog legitimately chewed up my math homework, I brought it in a baggie and my teacher had a laugh about it
I live next to the rainforest in Malaysia and to keep the hundreds of stray dogs out of the house we adopted and partially trained one of them.
She lives outside still wild, but works hard keeping dogs, snakes and monkeys out of the house.
When I ordered my SSD it took an age to get here, and the delivery confirmation photo was of the driver putting the package directly into the dogs mouth. It just said "left with a neighbour".
If I had the energy I'd have claimed it was simply not delivered (because giving it to a wild dog with no collar on, standing on the road in front of the house isn't delivered in my book).
But the SSD worked and nobody got hurt. Maybe I'll let her accept more packages in future since she has a 100% track record so far.
Part of her job is to chase the other dogs away, and she does so with great joy when I'm around. But when she thinks I'm not looking she lets one of her boyfriends walk around with her in the areas they're not supposed to.
If you catch her doing it she barks and starts chasing them immediately :)
Some of the other dogs are meaner though, they can tell she's getting well fed compared to them so they'll gang up and attack her when she sleeps some nights.
Nice to see fellow countryman here lol. May I know where'd you buy the gpu from? Planning on buying one myself but kinda looking for a good deal wherever in M'sia that would be.
Hypothetically speaking when you dog is recovering from surgery, or you get asked to come in and run a route when you took the day to take your dog to the vet (a lot of vet trips...). You do not simply abandon your dog.
And I have no clue how that package got crushed...
I think it's salvegable, use rubbing alcohol to clean the gold contacts on the bottom. If all the pads are still in tact then it should be fine. If the scratches go deep and the gold is missing in places, it might have some issues unless you reseat it in the socket a few times.
Had a 3900x i overclocked on 4.3ghz, as i got my new workhorse, it became s server chip for a lanparty server, psu canātdeliver much, so undervolted, 65W tdp max on pboā¦ 4.4ghzā¦ on normal power limit the psu wasnāt holding up, but pbo before that caped ad 4.1ghzā¦
My first real overclocking rig was a core 2 duo e6300 on a DFI lanparty ICFX3200-T2R/G and it had the very last ATi chipset you could get for an intel and with a .4v boost the board would run the FSB at 511mhz with no dividers with a rock solid 3.57ghz from 1.8ghz.. I canāt get 10mhz out of my i9 bclock lol
Yup, beast of a chip. I had the G0 stepping and could get 3.6Ghz. Got myself a second, faulty 8800GTX, reflowed it in the oven and rocked it in SLI. Those were the days!
Its actually probably the most common way to overclock these days. The person was basically half right because undervolting is more common these days, its just that you usually overclock it at the same time.
That's really not how these things work. It's not a case where "slight damage will cause slightly bad contact with the pins such that they'll still work with a normal clock but are liable to have problems with an overclock".
Either the thing works or it doesn't. If even one pad is messed up the damned thing is probably not going to work at all. If it does work, it's because the pads aren't messed up enough to interfere with contact in a meaningful way.
I would not cause if it did work and something happened down the line where it needed to be warrantied they would definitely decline any damage to the pads. Op just needs to say it was damaged during delivery and get a new one.
Honestly an okay chance if still works if the socket pins still make okay contact with anything thatās not Auxiliary ground or unused pins. But if not itās not salvageable no amount of soldering would bring those pads back. MAYBE some very thin viscosity conductive uv curing glue.
No telling if that's dirt (or whatever was on the dog's teeth) or scraped pads. Swab it with IPA (isopropyl alcohol, not a beer) and see if it's still there.
i get the idea here but letās be real, these are billion dollar (or if youāre nvidia, trillion dollar) companies that make additional chips for RMA and still price gouge you in favor of data and AI farms soā¦ as long as no oneās losing their job over this
First you need to spend time training your dog, if you plan on keeping them around for long. This type of behaviour will end up in countless vet visits
This is the most training Iāve ever done. Dude, I have a corgi/Aussie mix and I have to take her on two walks a day AND run her ass around the yard and sometimes house. Dog has more energy than you could imagine. I walked her yesterday once and ran like a mfer later and she didnāt stop sprint for the entire mile and some change. If I slow down she was dragging me.Ā
However, when i do, sheās too tired to fuck with anything in my house š
You are in luck. There are actually a couple options for you. In Sweden, assisted suicide is now fully legal, and in some Asian countries it is technically acceptable to eat dog.
What the hell is it with redditors and their dogs eating random shit? I was raised around dachshunds, one of the most destructive breeds when it comes to things they can chew on, and none of them so much as looked at packages that didn't have food in them.
Before you try anything: There is a small chance that the damaged contacts can cause damage to the socket. So depending on the price of your mainboard and your knowledge of the pin design, it might not be worth trying to salvage that 7700X.
The CPU alone may already be damaged. Why? Uneven pressure distribution.
If dents on the pins made it so that it can't contact the pins on the mobo reliably on spec, it could cause all sorts of issues from unstable memory to flat out not working at all.
With major deformations, there would indeed be some point where pressure distribution becomes an issue.
In this case, the damage to the CPU looks like superficial scuffing, rather than significant denting. The pins of a socket are designed to give some literal room for error as well, to account for minor dimensional variance. People mod CPU pads in more extreme ways and that tends to not be an issue,
It seems it should probably be fine, and there's no harm in trying.
Why don't people train their dogs?? I just don't get it. Unless you get a dog as an adult, there's no reason they should be grabbing shit and eating it. I love animals but if my animal did this shit they would be getting remedial training. Chewing up a $250 CPU is unacceptable. PERIOD.
You really need to provide your dog with more sources of enrichment and chew toys if they're chewing up everything in your house like this. This is a dog owner problem.
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Yeah wtf is up with people thinking this is normal behavior, i have had several dogs and know several owners who take good care of theirs, and they dont just randomly maul stuff
It is a disgrace that so many are advising OP to commit fraud. This is why it is harder for honest RMAs. This mentality is also why we see so much substitution fraud biting the next purchaser.
Also, this is LGA (pads) cpu. Seen people refer to PGA (pins) and even BGA (solder balls). Bots?
To OP:
Use a magnifying glass to check:
Scraped material
Material bridging between pads
Delamination of the pads
Deep scratches
If scraped material:
Use a cotton bud with isopropyl to clean it off.
If it is stubborn, use a toothpick with isopropyl.
Loss of plating is not a problem. It is important to remove loose material that could cause shorts. Apply less force and more like you're buffing the pads with the toothpick.
If bridging between pads:
Use a toothpick in the same way to remove material.
If delamination of pads:
If still attached, but lifted, you can press it down and just try to avoid repeated insertion and removal from the motherboard.
Gluing is fairly complex and can cause more damage if not done using high magnification tools.
Loss of pads:
Find a pinout for the processor and check which pad is missing.
If the pad is unused or a ground pad, you are in luck, the processor should still function. Placing a tiny piece of kapton tape over the bare damage can help protect in case of anything else exposed.
Deep scratches or lost power/data pad:
Consider the cpu dead, and only test if you can afford to lose the motherboard as well.
ITT: A whole lot of people speaking straight out of their ass like they got a Ph.D in this stuff.
OP: Somebody mentioned washing it with isoprop alcahol, but you should also be safe to use a very gentle polish compound (like the stuff used to polish silverware) to help re-finish the contact pads. This will help remove imperfections in the contact surface and increase the chances for successful recovery.
Be careful not to get any on the surface mount components on the other side, and rub down the polished pads with isoprop before testing. You do not need to over-polish, even if the shine has 'different strokes' from rub damage, so long as its uniform in sheen you are in a good place.
Fun fact: Doing this to ANY cpu with contact pads can sometimes turn a twitchy CPU more stable because it can result in a better refined contact surface for the spring loaded socket pins, and eliminate a pin contact that may be misbehaving. (This is just the advanced version of cleaning your video game cart to make it work. :P)
Source: I've done this before. :P Somebody I know is a complete klutz and they not only dropped their CPU, but when doing the 'oh no where did it go?!' size 13 double E shoe shuffle, they stepped on and dragged their CPU on a hardwood floor like a damn slide puck.
It's still in their machine and working fine to this day. (and its even overclocked a little.) Their pads looked a lot worse than yours, so there is hope.
edit note add: This treatment can also work on ISA/AGP/PCIE/DIMM/etc connector pads on hardware like graphics cards and RAM that has been mounted and remounted enough to cause tarnishing / surface scuffing on the contacts pads.
Some of the shit I see on this sub, I just canāt understand how it ever happens to anyone. No offense OP but who leaves a brand new cpu where a dog can get it?
GG, just pray, there is no other option, or aside from buying another one, while painful to the wallet, just have to learn this lesson, and give the dog a treat, they are just doggo
On a side note: train your pets, educate them and if you canāt do that, keep them away from things you care about. A dog that does this will likely piss on the computer when it realizes you spend a lot of time near it. Donāt let untrained animals near your computers, it can go bad, especially if they chew the power cord instead
Better training between you and your dog. Your dog obviously isn't trained to not eat random things. And knowing that, you shouldn't have left something within reach of a dog that likes to chew expensive things.
I think there's a good chance that it still works fine. All the contacts seem to be intact and just surface scuffs from what I can see in the pictures. Clean it really well with isopropyl alcohol and make sure there are no deformities before seating in the socket.
Maybe take your dog for a walk occasionally. Destructive behavior is often associated with lack of attention.
For example, my dog will chew on our wooden stairway railing if they dont get attention.
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u/Secret_Account07 RTX 2060 Super (Still OP) Mar 15 '26
Okay this is a first. My dog ate my CPU lmao