Soldato
That's relatively normal for the Apex boards. It's another lottery whether or not it will come bent. Most have no issues, just be careful if using a contact frame.
Was it sealed?Dont matter as ive had a look in the cpu socket and there are a lot of bent pins in there,i dont even have a cpu yet this is disgusting for a new board to be sent out like this.
How bad was it?Seal was cut, the main reason I looked at it was your thread talking about some of these boards where bent so I took a look, it's bent on the other side as well, and checked the board all over then looked at the cpu socket and almost had a heart attack at the state of it, just waiting to see what they say but I bet they will blame me, like I've said there was no need for me to look at the board when it arrived as I'm ordering the cpu next week, I payed with PayPal so if I get no luck with the shop not ocuk BTW I'll start a dispute.
Are you getting a refund or are they replacing it? That looks pretty bad. I thought at first it might have just been isolated to a batch in the US.
This is the other side of the motherboard
CPU socket.
Ready packed up for rma now, just wish I had looked at it when it came, I just stored it as I don't have a cpu yet, even if the socket was OK I would still send it back as the bends are very bad in all my years I've never had a board arrive like this.
Wow. I can't believe this would pass QC.Yes it is mate.