Cut into PCB trace while deliding!

[CHEEZE-IT]

I accidentally cut into two places on the pcb on my i5 3570k while de-liding. The CPU is working just fine for now and i played some Dayz for at least an hour and stress tested with prime for another on stock clocks.  One place i cut into i saw a really small hint of copper color and the other side i saw two large veins of copper but its running fine. Should i be worried? Should i do anything about it? Will overclocking possibly damage it? Should i stress test more or move on to over clocking. I don't have any pictures of it because i was really nervous and just wanted to see if it would work. For the hour I ran prime95 my max temp on the hottest core is 48C at stock clocks and voltages. Also for anyone else looking to do this use the thinnest razor you can find! If not and you have only a sharp box cutting utility kinda razor use your hand to push down on the middle where you will cut in with and push the outside edges upwards. It will hurt a bit but you wont scratch it as much as i did? Anyways should I be worried?

[Altecice]

If it works it works lucky boy though!

[Glenwing]

If the traces aren't severed, you're fine.

[TheNinjaNextDor]

If it works you're fine. That would scare me soo bad though.

[foxhound590]

aslong as the trace isnt severed you shoud be fine tho keep an eye on it 

[CHEEZE-IT]

I was scared to death. I was sweating alot by the time i put my nh-d14 back on to start testing. Then Black screen with white text comes up and i basically almost start crying.  Then i read it and remember that i need to turn off secure boot because i have clover boot loader for using hackintosh and mac osx. Lol Yea I'm pretty lucky. I'm so glad i don't have to go back to i3

[MajorChipHazard]

If it works then it is fine.

[Hoppa]

You're a lucky man.

BTW, welcome to the forum! (5 posts too late but whatever)

[CHEEZE-IT]

Heh yea I'm pretty lucky i guess. And thanks! I've been mostly lurking but I've found reasons to post here and there. Im gonna switch to my old 4.8 overclock and stress test overnight!

[d33g33]

Might be worth putting a bit of clear nail polish or something similar over the exposed parts for insulations sake.

 

Hammer and vice method ftw.

[CHEEZE-IT]

I Did not have access to a vice but i would of done that if i did. Seems safer now that i think about it. I believe i saw some amount of glossiness over it meaning there was a thin amount of PCB plastic left. Will put some nail polish next mount! I ran Prime95 with 1.4v and at 4.8 and one of the workers failed because of a rounding error. Probably needs a tad more voltage.

[sof006]

I Did not have access to a vice but i would of done that if i did. Seems safer now that i think about it. I believe i saw some amount of glossiness over it meaning there was a thin amount of PCB plastic left. Will put some nail polish next mount! I ran Prime95 with 1.4v and at 4.8 and one of the workers failed because of a rounding error. Probably needs a tad more voltage.

Don't push too much voltage or you will shorten its lifespan by a lot... and I mean a lot.

[CHEEZE-IT]

Yea i don't plan to run it at 4.8 that much. And once I'm old enough to get a job I plan on saving for a new haswell system. I want to make a video on how clock speeds effect Dayz SA FPS because i do see a big difference from stock to 4.8. After that im just gonna stick to whatever gives me best results without going overboard. I wont go over 1.45v or 100C once it does ill just call it a day.