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I bought a brand new Ryzen 5950X off newegg. It was sold and shipped by newegg, not a 3rd party. Upon inspection, the box looked flawless, no signs of tampering, looked clean as can be. The cover sticker seal was flat as it should be. I noticed when I looked at the CPU, there was a tiny little blemish on top. I couldn't tell what it was.... but just looking at it, it looked like a quarter inch by 16th inch blemish, like residue from some substance that may have been on it, but wasn't grey like thermal paste, more like a light brown. The blemish didn't add any contusions. It was flat and flush with the chip, you could rub your fingers over it and not distinguish it from the rest of the feel of the chip.
My initial thought was that it could have been that the top of it got something on it during manufacturing or packaging, or wasn't perfectly cleaned before manufacturing/packaging. That can happen, so anyway. I thought nothing of it, installed it in my PC. So far, everything has been perfect. Everything in task manager and CPU-Z checks out. Thermals under full load have never exceeded 62. I ran the passmark bench, it placed in the 94% percentile (it performed better or equal to 94% of other 5950X's.
The Passmark score was equal to the average on passmark. Also, the single-threaded performance was 5% above the average. Its a stepping 2 chip. I've been gaming on it, running it under high loads, with no issues. No BSODs, no crashes, no errors, no instability, no performance issues, thermals are rock solid. I watched another 5950X unboxing video, and their unboxing was exactly the same as mine. So I don't know.... is this just a one off error that something got on the top of the chip.
I can appreciate that manufacturing facilities are not perfect. I thought of RMA.... but... I mean.... the chip hasn't given me any trouble, performance thermals, benchmarks, stability, all of that stuff checked out exactly as I expect. Just want some opinions: Should I be worried? Or just leave it
My initial thought was that it could have been that the top of it got something on it during manufacturing or packaging, or wasn't perfectly cleaned before manufacturing/packaging. That can happen, so anyway. I thought nothing of it, installed it in my PC. So far, everything has been perfect. Everything in task manager and CPU-Z checks out. Thermals under full load have never exceeded 62. I ran the passmark bench, it placed in the 94% percentile (it performed better or equal to 94% of other 5950X's.
The Passmark score was equal to the average on passmark. Also, the single-threaded performance was 5% above the average. Its a stepping 2 chip. I've been gaming on it, running it under high loads, with no issues. No BSODs, no crashes, no errors, no instability, no performance issues, thermals are rock solid. I watched another 5950X unboxing video, and their unboxing was exactly the same as mine. So I don't know.... is this just a one off error that something got on the top of the chip.
I can appreciate that manufacturing facilities are not perfect. I thought of RMA.... but... I mean.... the chip hasn't given me any trouble, performance thermals, benchmarks, stability, all of that stuff checked out exactly as I expect. Just want some opinions: Should I be worried? Or just leave it
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