Bent a CPU pin would this affect the warranty if I can't bend it back?

[Matthew216]

Hello all,

I believe the pin was already slightly bent before installing. I suspect this because I correctly installed the CPU and took my time, it wasn't until I pushed in the leaver that I heard a crunch.

Thankfully it's just the 1 pin so I will try and bend it back in to place but if this fails am I still covered under warranty? Or if I'm not am I covered in its current state?

Regards, Matthew.

 

[Matthew216]

Yes it is a Ryzen CPU. Everything fitted in just fine there was little resistance (normal amount of resistance) even when the pin bent.

 

[Matthew216]

Thank you for the support guys, as they say s*** happens!

I have had to buy a new one unfortunately I'll just take what happened with a pinch of salt and move on best thing I can do.

Just so you guys know which CPU I got here's the specs:
AMD Ryzen 7 1800x, 8 core, 16mb cache, 3.6 GHz base - 4.00 GHz max.

 

[Matthew216]

A solution for bent pins is to use a very tiny screw driver, whilst very gingerly and slowly bending the pin back in to place.

Unfortunately my pin was bent all the way down and too much at an awkward angle to bend back in one movement, it broke.

If there's a more safer solution it would be good to know.

 

[Matthew216]

have you tried the cpu without the pin ? , some pins on modern cpu's are redundant , also you can just drop the pin into the socket and install the cpu as normal , i seem to remember a linus video where he did just this and the cpu worked fine.

Yes I tried that as a just in case unfortunately I lucked out there too.

I am very happy with my set up I got the new CPU and everything is installed with no problems, got my Corsair hydro h100i v2 liquid cpu cooler 240mm with Grizzly Hydronaut Thermal Paste applied. My new motherboard is an Asus Rog Crosshair vi with Team Group Night Hawk rgb 16gb 3200mhz and a 1080 GPU it's a beast!

Storage wise got 2 x Western Digital 4TB black in raid, 512 Samsung SSD, Corsair Obsidian case and a Corsair HX1000i 1K watt Platinum PSU.

Was really fun building this rig it was just a shame about the processor being damaged during the installation. Hope my next build goes a little smoother. So what rigs do you guys have and have any of you experienced similar installation problems?