I have to share this with you, it just boggles my mind that my "trash build" is ACTUALLY working!
So, I was given a 6700K that was bent on two edges of the chip (about 20deg angle) and a motherboard that had (/have) bent pins (and a GTX980 + 16GB memory which are undamaged).
I used a needle to somewhat straighten the mobo pins (the socket still looks like crap) and just decided to try it. It works. How is it possible?
To add to that, I didn't have any thermal paste available (the stores are closed for today), so I used toothpaste (cause I didn't think it'll work anyway). Idle temps at 40C and goes as high as (while playing The Orville, if you're interested) 100C (I'm guessing it's throttling, but still). Hasn't crashed once. I also ran a memory test, and got no errors.
I'll be replacing the toothpaste tomorrow with real thermal paste, but I just can't believe it works! It seems the tech is much more robust than I thought!
Linus might want to make a video of how far damaged stuff is still salvageable!