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Do amd boards have plastic socket covers?

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Hey guys, 

 

i just wanted to know the answer to the question in the title because a friend of mine took an AMD board back to the shop cause it was faulty and they told him that u need to have the plastic socket cover that came with the board. I don't remember any AMD board i've seen so far having a plastic socket cover though. Does anyone know for sure?

 

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only Intel has it

 

AMD dont have pins on the socket

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If you mean the bit that sits where the CPU would go to protect the pins then yeah my amd board came with one.

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I think so, It was a while ago i changed motherboard so im not sure. I havent thought about it.

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Nope. The AMD boards do not have pins on them so they don't cover them up. Only Intel has pins on the motherboard so they include a plastic cover.

 

pretty sure my GB board came with one.

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pretty sure my GB board came with one.

I've owned a few am2+ and am3 boards. None of them came with a socket cover.

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nope, they usually dont.

 

people, stop spreading confusion  :P

 

 

he should tell the people at the shop that they are wrong or contact the manufacturer directly.

seems only me that is spreading confusing. sorry really thought there was one there. ^_^

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See if there are vids of people doing un boxings to confirm one way or another?

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Thanks a lot folks, probably the employee there got confused with intel boards or something. 

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AMD sockets don't have socket covers. They do have a plastic pad with holes in it to hold the processor pins, but they don't have a socket cover. Intel does to protect the thousand and something pins in their sockets.

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