B-Grade mobo with a few *slightly misaligned cpu pins

St0n3y · 21 May 2021 at 19:13

Picked up a B-Grade LGA 1200 mobo this afternoon, everything looks as new apart from a few pins on the CPU socket that don't look as aligned as the ones around them. I don't have a CPU to test on the board until tomorrow do you think it will be an issue?

nlel1975 · 21 May 2021 at 19:15

Yes if any of the pins are bent the board won’t boot.

Dg834man · 21 May 2021 at 23:31

nlel1975 said:
Yes if any of the pins are bent the board won’t boot.

This isn't true, quite a few pins are not critical and it depends on the degree of misalignment might still make contact with the pad

St0n3y · 22 May 2021 at 12:22

CPU was delivered this morning installed and so far everything is working as expected.

nlel1975 · 22 May 2021 at 12:31

St0n3y said:
CPU was delivered this morning installed and so far everything is working as expected.

Phew what a relief!

MrRockliffe · 22 May 2021 at 12:36

I got a board where some of the pins were bent, and while everything seemed to work, I noticed that RAM slots A wouldn’t work with my RAM at 4000 Mhz, only B slots. Otherwise works fine :-)