CPU bent pins
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Soldato
I use a very fine pair of needle nose pliers. You need to be seriously careful, though, they snap very, very easily.
Soldato
Lol what? Pliers?
Get a mechanical pencil without any lead in it, and insert the bent pin into the end and straighten it with almost zero chance of breaking it.
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If you took it to CES instead of posting here you'd know the answer by now
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Soldato
I can’t go there first as if I go there without bending the pins back they might say no. Then I can hardly go back again can I, once they already decline it on the first occasion
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This is all the op needs. Unless you’ve a hand like a foot, you’ll not go wrong using the above method.
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Sell it on the bay as faulty and take what you can if your first option doesn't work.
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You could get served by somebody who doesn't care about his job or you could get served by someone very strict like an army Sargent. Or you could get served by someone with bad eyesight or 20/20 vision.
None of us can predict the outcome. There's no right or wrong answer to your question.
All you can do is straighten the pins as best you can and take it to CEX. If that fails then try the MM.
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Commissario
Good eyesight, a decent light, a couple of razer blades and sometimes a propelling pencil can do the job.
I had an Intel Core2 or Duel Core cpu that arrived with half a dozen bent pins years ago, it took some time and patience but I was able to get the pins straight. The razor slips between rows of pins (allowing you to get the bent one lined up as you straighten it) and the propelling pencil without lead in it can in some cases fit over the pin to help, but it is fiddly and the pins can/do break at times so you have a limited number of attempts to get it done right.
I think there used to be a guide on doing it in either GH or the CPU section, but there will almost certainly be a video on youtube as it was an annoyingly common issue for intel CPU's especially. In some ways the packaging for OEM chips was better than that for retail, as OEM chips are IIRC shipped in trays or 20 or so with the chips pushed into stiff anti static foam, then the likes of OCUK used to pop them in little plastic boxes with the same foam so the pins could not bend (unlike the retail intel packaging where the chip was dropped to rattle a bit in a plastic clamshell and the weight of the cpu was enough in some instances to bend some pins during transit).
As Curioustomcat says no one can predict if it'll work or not, or even if say cex will bother checking it closely. I will note that a very slightly bent pin doesn't necessarily become an issue, a lot of zero insertion force sockets can/do straighten slightly offset/bent pins out as they clamp, as long as the pins are straight enough to fit into the socket to begin with.
I had an Intel Core2 or Duel Core cpu that arrived with half a dozen bent pins years ago, it took some time and patience but I was able to get the pins straight. The razor slips between rows of pins (allowing you to get the bent one lined up as you straighten it) and the propelling pencil without lead in it can in some cases fit over the pin to help, but it is fiddly and the pins can/do break at times so you have a limited number of attempts to get it done right.
I think there used to be a guide on doing it in either GH or the CPU section, but there will almost certainly be a video on youtube as it was an annoyingly common issue for intel CPU's especially. In some ways the packaging for OEM chips was better than that for retail, as OEM chips are IIRC shipped in trays or 20 or so with the chips pushed into stiff anti static foam, then the likes of OCUK used to pop them in little plastic boxes with the same foam so the pins could not bend (unlike the retail intel packaging where the chip was dropped to rattle a bit in a plastic clamshell and the weight of the cpu was enough in some instances to bend some pins during transit).
As Curioustomcat says no one can predict if it'll work or not, or even if say cex will bother checking it closely. I will note that a very slightly bent pin doesn't necessarily become an issue, a lot of zero insertion force sockets can/do straighten slightly offset/bent pins out as they clamp, as long as the pins are straight enough to fit into the socket to begin with.
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Straighten them out. Bent pins mostly can be repaired no matter how many, just takes longer.