So after getting 3 Windows restarts today whilst idle I decided to go and swap out my PSU to the new one... whilst at it I thought I will reapply the thermal compound after giving it a good clean (I didn't clean my heatsink when I initially first installed the 2700x... as I didn't remove the old paste last time I ended up with too much and CPU was glued to the heatsink! being almost close to midnight I didn't realise and just yanked it out of the socket CPU and all!
Ended up getting some paste on a few cpu pins... so cleaned those as best as I could. then as I was putting cpu back in realised I bent one of the corner pins.... started cursing myself at this point I mean only had the CPU a few weeks... gave the pin a bit of a push in the right direction and then managed to put it back in the socket... Was relieved when PC started back up after taking a while thinking about it and the mobo was cycling through loads of different codes. Don't know if that is normal as I never paid attention to it before.
PC up and running now, but has anyone had experience of this before? Slightly bent pin, will it impact on performance/life if cpu?
And to those new to this and thinking of replacing/resetting their CPU don't make the mistakes I made!
Ended up getting some paste on a few cpu pins... so cleaned those as best as I could. then as I was putting cpu back in realised I bent one of the corner pins.... started cursing myself at this point I mean only had the CPU a few weeks... gave the pin a bit of a push in the right direction and then managed to put it back in the socket... Was relieved when PC started back up after taking a while thinking about it and the mobo was cycling through loads of different codes. Don't know if that is normal as I never paid attention to it before.
PC up and running now, but has anyone had experience of this before? Slightly bent pin, will it impact on performance/life if cpu?
And to those new to this and thinking of replacing/resetting their CPU don't make the mistakes I made!