A question regarding possible damage to parhelia board

[UtwigMU]

When I pulled the board from antistatic bag, I noticed that the top of the thingie marked red bellow on generic Parhelia pic from Matrox was slightly chipped.

The card is functioning w/o problems (tried UT and 3Dmark), both ran w/o problems.

The 2D is wonderful (fast, sharp) and I didn't notice any banding whatsoever (I do have a quality PSU).

The thing chipped is marked red (It's generic parhelia photo from image library, i can take it out and scan it.)

What would that mean - only the edge of the top thin cylinder (button shapped thing) - black colour - that covers copper coil is lightly chipped.

I'll scan the card if you need more detail.

[Kruzin]

No biggie.
All the BBz got OEM Ps, and about half of us reported those parts chipped.
Long as it's working, I wouldn't sweat it. No magic smoke can escape from there

[UtwigMU]

Cool, that's all I wanted to hear.

I was affraid that it will blow up one day or something. (GT98's story scared me a bit.)

Kruzin thanks for quick reply.

[rylan]

Yeah thats just an inductor for the power regulator. There isn't any problem if a litle edge of the top of chipped... it'll only start to effect the properties of the component if a good sized chunk of the ferrite meterial is broken.