• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

Ryzen 1600 bent pins

McGraw

McGraw

McGraw

Soldato
Joined
16 Jan 2006
Posts
3,046
Had a bit of stress today...chose my stepson a new rig and tried building it for him.

CPU wouldn't go in and I realised that the three diagonal pins at the front were bent.

Not sure whether I did it opening the plastic (I really struggled to get it to open).

20 mins of trying to scalpel them straight with shaking hands, strained eyes and a burning face from the sun blasting through the window (needed the light) and I finally got them perfect.

It went in fine and works fine.

Just a cautionary tale.
 
Yup. It'll probably be fine. I dropped a Pentium 4 on the floor about 14 years ago and bent the **** out of most of the pins. It was an entire afternoon of straightening, but I got it fixed. Last I knew it was still chugging away in 2010 (I gave it to my friend).
 
All well that ends well.

giphy.gif
 
I did this with my 8350, after punching the wall several times, chucking whatever was near me away and then taking a breath to calm down i straightened them and been fine ever since!

I think this happens much more frequently that people let on!
 
McGraw said:
I know I shouldn't be jealous of six slower cores and faster ram...but I am!
Click to expand...

You probably should; give it a really multithreaded task and you know those 6 slower cores will come out on top :) Maybe not by 50%, but by enough that it will irk you :D

...is it too late to put your old motherboard/CPU/memory into the new case and will he know the difference if you do?
 
Done this a few times myself, once was building a PC for a friend and I was full of flu, not a good combination.

Is he pleased with the Ryzen?
 
Done it on the first motherboard I bought for a custom PC back in 2012, Asus mobo.

Plopped in CPU (went in fine), turned it on. CPU red light came on... Took it apart and noticed 2 bent pins. A very sweaty 10 minutes later and I had straightened them out with a really thin piece of card, motherboard and CPU ran for years :)


Happens all the time I bet!
 
Well, at least CPU's bent pins can be corrected.
Would be likely entirely different thing with bent pins of LGA socket.


illuz said:
Done it on the first motherboard I bought for a custom PC back in 2012, Asus mobo.

Plopped in CPU (went in fine), turned it on. CPU red light came on... Took it apart and noticed 2 bent pins. A very sweaty 10 minutes later and I had straightened them out with a really thin piece of card, motherboard and CPU ran for years :)
Click to expand...
I remember from school when one teacher who was heavy duty PC hobbyer (also at the time among top in overclocking) had motherboard with wired ZIF socket for flashing BIOS chips.
Of course one time chip went in wrong way and started warming up "slightly" before noticing it...
 
eddiew said:
You probably should; give it a really multithreaded task and you know those 6 slower cores will come out on top :) Maybe not by 50%, but by enough that it will irk you :D

...is it too late to put your old motherboard/CPU/memory into the new case and will he know the difference if you do?
Click to expand...

Everything I play prefers raw clockspeed so I'm ok for now!
 
nkata said:
Done this a few times myself, once was building a PC for a friend and I was full of flu, not a good combination.

Is he pleased with the Ryzen?
Click to expand...

He's not a pc person per se and will just be playing DOTA until the 1070 he wants comes in stock but in as far as it doesn't blue screen all the time ...yes he's very pleased.

His Pentium and 7850 have served him well for 5 years of constant hammering.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom