Bent pins ?

colinmcr · 9 Oct 2013 at 09:54

Guys,

I just bought Asus x79-Deluxe motherboard and on unlatching the cpu cover notice that the pins appear to be slightly canted over. Can someone tell are the pins on an x79 supposed to be all completely vertical? Or have what appears to me, to be a slight cant.
I haven't tried to install the cpu btw, I was just checking over the board. I'll try upload some images.

stulid · 9 Oct 2013 at 09:57

The pins are meant to be at a slight angle.

A bit like this (1155 socket but similar)

Stelly · 9 Oct 2013 at 10:01

Can you post up a pic of it?

Stelly

colinmcr · 9 Oct 2013 at 10:08

uploaded pics to OP

Ah Stulid mine look just like yours which seems to indicate they are ok? What do you think based on my pics?

stulid · 9 Oct 2013 at 10:16

Yours look fine.

Stelly · 9 Oct 2013 at 10:40

Yup looks good to me.

Stelly

colinmcr · 9 Oct 2013 at 10:49

thanks lads, just wanted to be sure.

d_brennen · 9 Oct 2013 at 10:51

Would be pretty unusual for every pin to be bent out of shape, at the same angle

They are like this so there is some spring to them, the CPU pushes them down a bit when clamped in, to ensure contact.

colinmcr · 9 Oct 2013 at 10:58

d_brennen said:
Would be pretty unusual for every pin to be bent out of shape, at the same angle They are like this so there is some spring to them, the CPU pushes them down a bit when clamped in, to ensure contact.

Yep agree with you, it would be unusual. Its just I haven't seen the socket before and it looked odd to my eyes the lighting in the room I think made it seem worse, but thanks for the explanation.

trickynickyuk · 11 Oct 2013 at 03:39

it looks fine