Upgrading to Ryzen 3700x but sacrificing dual channel memory.

[Haz939]

I've purchased a 3700x off Ebay spares or repairs. From looking at the pictures it looked like it just had some bent pins. I thought it was worth bidding on, but I got carried away and paid a bit too much for it.

After receiving the cpu I nocited it had a missing pin and damaged on one end like pcb is to separate. This was very hard to see on the ebay pictures, it looks like it's been dropped.

The cpu does work but only one ram slot works on my motherboard (only have two)

My question is. Is it worth using this cpu as a upgrade from a 1800x but lose dual channel memory support?

I'm think of buying a single stick of 16GB DDR4 and selling my 1800x and two 8GB sticks to try and recoup some of my losses.

Many thanks for any advice. Harry.

 

[Haz939]

Its possible to repair the pins if you get a donor processor.

solder pad is missing unfortunately.

 

[Haz939]

its pretty far gone. makes me wonder how its working at all given that picture.

 

[Haz939]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Hs-Ze6YLc1pJWc6iJg9HXBI_7ovW7fSp

 

[Haz939]

I don't think I'm going to return it. I knew what I was getting involved with, it's a risk buying off ebay sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesn't. I've been selling and buying off eBay for 10+ years.

Most of the damage was caused by the previous user. its going to work very bad under a microscope. under the naked eye it doesn't look bad.

The pad the pin actually connects to its missing it cannot be reattached.

I don't think it his much resell value. Especially now I've had a crack at it. I wouldn't do that to somebody anyway.

I could use it in single channel. And maybe get a new ryzen 4000 series maybe in a year or so.

I would then give it to a friend, he's already interested in it.

I'm a electronics hobbyist. I've made my own pcbs, done so for a long time. I know it looks bad, it hurts my soul. Smd soldering is difficult especially when it's only meant to be done by a very expensive machine.