Are these pins fixable (riser cable)?

[mrdoubtfull]

Wondering if I should just toss this riser cable or not.. I haven't tested to see if it works the way it is.. Do you think bending the pins back will be fine? 

 

It looks like the person that gave it to me ripped it out with their GPU and tried to just shove it back on lol. 

 

 

[Guest]

I'd just get a new one honestly. No sense in chancing bricking a perfectly good video card.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

8 minutes ago, mrdoubtfull said:

Wondering if I should just toss this riser cable or not.. I haven't tested to see if it works the way it is.. Do you think bending the pins back will be fine? 

 

It looks like the person that gave it to me ripped it out with their GPU and tried to just shove it back on lol. 

Unless you're some sort of wizard at soldering stuff at the component level and absolutely needs to save the 15 bucks or so a replacement riser would cost.... don't bother. Plus you can't guarantee the repair will last. 

[mrdoubtfull]

3 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Unless you're some sort of wizard at soldering stuff at the component level and absolutely needs to save the 15 bucks or so a replacement riser would cost.... don't bother. Plus you can't guarantee the repair will last. 

Oh shit, you're right.. I didn't see they were soldered lol.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

1 hour ago, mrdoubtfull said:

Oh shit, you're right.. I didn't see they were soldered lol.

Not something a regular soldering iron would be able to do either I don't think. Those traces are pretty crowded. Very likely to bridge one of those together. Mind you, that riser might still work perfectly for PCIe 1x up to maybe 8x cards.