Duothus

Thanks everyone,
 
All they offered was either a full refund and return or a 50% refund. There was no exchange involved and honestly even if I asked for an exchange who's to say they wouldn't make the same packing mistake again. I decided to keep it and take the partial refund. At least I got my shipping costs back which means at 46CAD, this guy was a steal to begin with. I'm going to pop it in and see how it goes. I will try and smoothen out the edge. It is shallow and on the surface. This processor will be in a old side desktop which is more a gaming system than my main work horse. The idea was to convert it into a render engine since I have it lying around and the motherboard accepts xeons. The renders I do will be more for personal projects, my little mad scientist's lab if you will. All my student and commercial work happens through my studio laptop. If the desktop runs well, I'll make the switch .
 
Again, thank you to all who responded, you guys got me through this without a scratch (pun intended). I'll update this thread to let you know how it goes.
 
Stay frosty.
🙂

Thanks everyone,
 
All they offered was either a full refund and return or a 50% refund. There was no exchange involved and honestly even if I asked for an exchange who's to say they wouldn't make the same packing mistake again. I decided to keep it and take the partial refund. At least I got my shipping costs back which means at 46CAD, this guy was a steal to begin with. I'm going to pop it in and see how it goes. I will try and smoothen out the edge. It is shallow and on the surface. This processor will be in a old side desktop which is more a gaming system than my main work horse. The idea was to convert it into a render engine since I have it lying around and the motherboard accepts xeons. The renders I do will be more for personal projects, my little mad scientist's lab if you will. All my student and commercial work happens through my studio laptop. If the desktop runs well, I'll make the switch .
 
Again, thank you to all who responded, you guys got me through this without a scratch (pun intended). I'll update this thread to let you know how it goes.
 
Stay frosty.
🙂

ahh. right. saw the builds. the one for 2000 looks good considering i already have a cabinet. i just need processor, MB and graphics card.