Asus Z790 Formula

[Bennehmaru]

Hey All,

I recently splashed out and bought a new machine, I'm now at the point where I am going to start building and got most of the way there, I was about to put the CPU in noticed that the socket didn't look quite right, and there's one random pin out of alignment.

I've attached a pic below of what I'm seeing apologies for quality I only had my phone, I'm assuming this is bad enough that I should send the board back as faulty?

Any advice greatly appreciated.

 

[mercyless]

Can you highlight where that is exactly,

if you mean the middle of the socket where the chips are, its looks ok. have you tried the cpu and booted up?

 

[clone]

Looks fine to me, your lucky I bought a asus z790 apex the motherboard was bent and the cpu socket was wrecked with a long line of pins that where bent, lucky I stood my ground and got it replaced.

 

[Bennehmaru]

Hey All, from the above 2 posts hopefully I'm being too cautious, but this is the bit I'm concerned about. When you zoom in on the pic you can see it a little clearer.

It does boot up and has seemed to install windows fine.

 

[clone]

Looks bent to me.

 

[Tetras]

It does boot up and has seemed to install windows fine.

Have you got both memory channels?

Did you use the IGP or the DGPU? If you used a DGPU, what is the PCI-E speed in CPU-Z?

 

[clone]

Two options
Leave it as is.
Try fix the bent pins.

 

[Bennehmaru]

Have you got both memory channels?

Did you use the IGP or the DGPU? If you used a DGPU, what is the PCI-E speed in CPU-Z?

Yup both memory channels are up and running, although I was getting errors in memtest, 1 or 2 in 4 passes but consistent. Assumed I also lucked out and bought defective memory so that's been sent back to, to swap over.

Using a DGPU (4090) and is running at 16x so looks all good there?

Try fix the bent pins.

Well I seem to have gotten it in a better position and the machine is still booting so fingers crossed.

 

[Bito]

If it’s booted and both ram channels are up and running, then happy days.

 

[clone]

Good outcome in the end, that's what we like to hear