I'm a f***ing idiot. Please help me

[Lil_Uzi_Per-Vert2]

I bought a ryzen 3 3100 and tried to install it into my asus prime a520k-m and the fan got stuck to it and I was dumb and a ton of pins got bent pretty bad. I bent them all back put the cpu in and it doesnt post. Did I f*** it up? Yes im guessing

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, Lil_Uzi_Per-Vert2 said:

a ton of pins got bent pretty bad. I bent them all back put the cpu in and it doesnt post.

most likely broken unfortnately.

[Lil_Uzi_Per-Vert2]

Just now, Fasauceome said:

most likely broken unfortnately.

Well thanks for assuring me. That's sad but its my fault for being mentally slow. I've tried building a pc for 9 months whenever I feel like im getting closer it never works out

[Lil_Uzi_Per-Vert2]

9 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

most likely broken unfortnately.

What do i do with the broken cpu

[Mister Woof]

Try clearing cmos?

[dizmo]

This is why I prefer building in an Intel system. AMD really needs to switch over. I mean, they'll copy their naming schemes, but not the more useful stuff?
 

5 minutes ago, Lil_Uzi_Per-Vert2 said:

What do i do with the broken cpu

Some people will buy them as necklaces. If you take a picture of how badly the pins are bent someone might be able to make a guess at it's chance of being revived.

[Mister Woof]

2 minutes ago, dizmo said:

This is why I prefer building in an Intel system. AMD really needs to switch over. I mean, they'll copy their naming schemes, but not the more useful stuff?
 

Some people will buy them as necklaces. If you take a picture of how badly the pins are bent someone might be able to make a guess at it's chance of being revived.

They aren't too bad but intel motherboards are just as if not more prone to damage/harder to fix

 

They also make a nasty crunch sound when you clamp it down.

[Bombastinator]

15 minutes ago, Lil_Uzi_Per-Vert2 said:

What do i do with the broken cpu

The upside of the type of system AMD uses is it is not totally impossible to fix bent pins. It’s just expensive and specialized work.  There are people that do it.   They buy CPUs with bent and broken pins on eBay at a massive discount, fix them, and resell them as refurbished.  Therefore the thing may retain some value.  It can still be sold on eBay for a bit of money.  It might even be possible to sell the cpu and buy it back again.  Expensive lesson

[dizmo]

7 minutes ago, Mister Woof said:

They aren't too bad but intel motherboards are just as if not more prone to damage/harder to fix

 

They also make a nasty crunch sound when you clamp it down.

Haha, I've never heard a crunching sound when I've installed an Intel CPU, and I've built quite a few PCs.

While it's true pins are delicate in both setups, the chance of you coming into contact with the pins if you're careful on Intel is drastically lower than with AMD, due to them not being exposed. It also doesn't affect things when you're uninstalling the CPU cooler, unlike AMD where it can quite often stick to it, and you have to perform a janky twisting motion to free it.

[Mister Woof]

1 minute ago, dizmo said:

Haha, I've never heard a crunching sound when I've installed an Intel CPU, and I've built quite a few PCs.

While it's true pins are delicate in both setups, the chance of you coming into contact with the pins if you're careful on Intel is drastically lower than with AMD, due to them not being exposed. It also doesn't affect things when you're uninstalling the CPU cooler, unlike AMD where it can quite often stick to it, and you have to perform a janky twisting motion to free it.

Built 4 in the last two years; it definitely does make that sound when you clamp it down.

 

Of course I could just be very sensitive and making it sound worse than it does.

 

But you don't hear anything from the AMD boards.

[dizmo]

5 minutes ago, Mister Woof said:

Built 4 in the last two years; it definitely does make that sound when you clamp it down.

 

Of course I could just be very sensitive and making it sound worse than it does.

 

But you don't hear anything from the AMD boards.

I'd take a simple sound over the other annoyances any day of the week.

[Bombastinator]

I suspect AMD will eventually switch to LGA because it has an advantage in that it can hold more pins. Iirc the new connector is LGA1200 which is 1200 pins. Fitting 1200 pins on the bottom of a cpu would be difficult without LGA

[Mister Woof]

13 minutes ago, dizmo said:

I'd take a simple sound over the other annoyances any day of the week.

There's a lot of other reasons to criticize AMD - I think being PGA is on the bottom of that list though 

[Guest]

Pictures?

[Mark Kaine]

1 hour ago, Mister Woof said:

They aren't too bad but intel motherboards are just as if not more prone to damage/harder to fix

 

They also make a nasty crunch sound when you clamp it down.

I only built a PC because AMD CPUs exist..  I looked at Intel coolers and just noped out every time lol...

 

The AMD coolers and chips are really easy to install, pretty smooth actually, the only thing that's slightly irritating is the 4 screws for the cooler, it's hard to say if they're tightened enough or not... kinda weird. But still ,it mostly just works, whereas intel... looks needlessly finniky and fragile.

 

On topic: we need pictures

[Guest]

Jah bent some pins on my 1200 while delidding it. 

After bending the pins straight it took a few cpu reseats into the socket for a good post.

Have to push the cpu while closing the gate so it fully slides in. After discovering this helped, it posts every time I install it, of course I went and tried to straighten the pins a little straighter.

 

[dizmo]

1 hour ago, Mister Woof said:

There's a lot of other reasons to criticize AMD - I think being PGA is on the bottom of that list though 

It's right near the top of mine. Though, that's me assuming their memory compatibility has gotten better

[HumdrumPenguin]

Definitely broken.

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, dizmo said:

It's right near the top of mine. Though, that's me assuming their memory compatibility has gotten better

lol. Yeah right.  (memory compatibility)

I don't like pins at all. They should be soldering these chips to the boards so nobody can ever damage their hardware. BGA I believe they call that. 

[Lil_Uzi_Per-Vert2]

2 hours ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Pictures?

 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Lil_Uzi_Per-Vert2 said:

 

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Pins look pretty straight.

Maybe Clean the cpu pins and pcb and top side with a soft tooth brush and isotropy alcohol. 

 

 

[Mister Woof]

Yeah looks like there's a ton of tim on the sides.

 

Is your socket dirty

[Lil_Uzi_Per-Vert2]

12 minutes ago, Mister Woof said:

Yeah looks like there's a ton of tim on the sides.

 

Is your socket dirty

No

[Lil_Uzi_Per-Vert2]

28 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Pins look pretty straight.

Maybe Clean the cpu pins and pcb and top side with a soft tooth brush and isotropy alcohol. 

 

 

Thats because I bent them all back, I don't wanna have tk take everhthing out again put it together then be disappointed and have to put it all away ill do that some other time

[Fatih19]

I'd bet it's broken.