x99 Motherboard Replacement

darket said:
Let me get this right, you bent loads of pins yet you still put the cpu back in ? All i can say is you'll be lucky if you haven't permanently damaged the cpu. Turn it off pull the cpu and stop using it.

Secondly as said above you can run dual channel , but why you would have a 5960x and not be running in quad channel i have no idea. What board is the cpu currently in ?
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The CPU pins have been bent for quite some time I believe, I tested the cpu in another board last night and it's fine but I understand why you would say that. The board it is currently in is a Gigabyte Gaming 7 x99. will move it over to the new board tomorrow when it comes. The memory I have was not advertised as quad channel when I bought it, I was an early adopter of the x99 platform. Whereas the board that is coming was solely advertised as needing "quad" which obviously is more a marketing thing than anything else according to what people are saying. Not long and I can get rid of this board. Also I never bent any pins, it was someone else. Only in the last few days have I had bigger issues, however thinking back I did have some small issues that I couldn't explain and that could be what caused them. Looking forward to the new board. Ran the 5960x for 8 hours last night in a friends spare x99 board and it never missed a beat, so seems it's just my board.

@ Griff ahh I never knew that, brilliant.
 
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I had a [email protected] until a few months ago, ran great on a Strix X99 Gaming - until it didn't. One day it just went "fizzt", never to come on again. Tested the chip in my old X99-A and it still works, but that board could never overclock worth buttons. So, even though I love X99 it was time to put it to rest.
 
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