Question Dropped cpu on floor can it still work

[clementttttttt]

I dropped my cpu on the floor when I try to clean the dried thermal paste on it. It appears that a few corner of the cpu is bent. Can it still work?

 

[kanewolf]

Unknown. All you can do is try it. But there is a decent probability that it is broken.

 

[SamirD]

I've got one cpu with a bent corner that works (i5-2500) and one with a bent corner that it replaced (i3-2120). The i3 is in a little more worse shape than the 2500, but the 2500 works. It's random.