Broken pins on a R7 3800X, is it safe to use

[grimreeper132]

My friend has a terrible track record with AMD CPUs, he has somehow bent pins on 3 seperate CPUs, but one of the most recent ones, was a spectacular one, in a way which broke off two pins off a R7 3800X, the pins were which J23 and K22 relate to VSS/GND and VDDCR_SOC respectfully, there is pins next to them which have the same function which means internally, in theory, they are connected so it should should be able to work still, so the question is how much current does these supplies require as it could still work..... I realise that its not probably not a great idea to use it but he is a bit short on cash, so it would be an upgrade for him, (hes going to be running a R7 1700..... which is another CPU which he bent the pins on and I have needed to fix.... I have no idea how he does it) but how bad of an idea would this be, as it seams to be an external short from when he bent the pin rather than an internal one???

EDIT: got the pins wrong, it wasn't AD18 and AC19
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[Master Disaster]

Its safe in that its not going to damage a board in testing. Whether it will work or not is another story entirely though.

[grimreeper132]

Just now, Master Disaster said:

Its safe in that its not going to damage a board in testing. Whether it will work or not is another story entirely though.

Yea, I will give you that, thats fair.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

How the fuck did you manage to scorch the pins?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

How the fuck did you manage to scorch the pins?

looks like one of the solder pads is completely removed too. There's no saving this one.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

5 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

looks like one of the solder pads is completely removed too. There's no saving this one.

you really need to hope the pin is redundant/ground/spare.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

you really need to hope the pin is redundant/ground/spare.

Only one way to find out....

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Just now, ShrimpBrime said:

Only one way to find out....

hack into AMD and check their pin out diagrams?

[Guest]

Just now, HelpfulTechWizard said:

hack into AMD and check their pin out diagrams?

No, slap it in the board and turn it on. If it doesn't boot, throw the cpu in the garbage.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

1 minute ago, ShrimpBrime said:

No, slap it in the board and turn it on. If it doesn't boot, throw the cpu in the garbage.

r/woooosh

[-rascal-]

7 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

No, slap it in the board and turn it on. If it doesn't boot, throw the cpu in the garbage.

 

Or give it to me...

I'll snip ALL the pins off, and make it into a keychain ... or display item (along with my Athlon XP 1700+ rev T-Bred CPU  )

[Guest]

31 minutes ago, -rascal- said:

 

Or give it to me...

I'll snip ALL the pins off, and make it into a keychain ... or display item (along with my Athlon XP 1700+ rev T-Bred CPU  )

If I don't use the plates, Ive made keychains from them. Even sold one on ebay some years back from an FX chip just to see if it would sell and it did! Shockingly!

[grimreeper132]

On 12/10/2020 at 7:52 PM, HelpfulTechWizard said:

How the fuck did you manage to scorch the pins?

I think he bent the 2 pins, and they touched, I dunno, I didn't do it, but it was the VSS/GND and VDDCR_SOC pins that were touching and I think he realised he fucked up when he turned it on and they shorted.... I could be wrong
 

On 12/10/2020 at 7:54 PM, ShrimpBrime said:

looks like one of the solder pads is completely removed too. There's no saving this one.

 

Theoretically, if there is no internal damge it will be fine....

 

On 12/10/2020 at 8:03 PM, HelpfulTechWizard said:

hack into AMD and check their pin out diagrams?

I mean if you look hard enough you can find a reddit post about it, as I mentioned in my post it was the VSS/GND and VDDCR_SOC pins, with alternatives next to them so theoretically it was fine

 

On 12/10/2020 at 8:04 PM, ShrimpBrime said:

No, slap it in the board and turn it on. If it doesn't boot, throw the cpu in the garbage.

I think thats the plan if he doesn't want it, as you know, I do have 32Gb of RAM, an old PSU and a dodgy GPU and/or a graphics adapter (saying that second GPU is a GPU is an insult to GPUs, it's about 12 year old now) lying around so yea, might try that..... not trying it on any of my good hardware though, I aint damaging my good desktop.... dorta hoping he doesn't want it so I can do this now as I get to keep it if he doesn't want it after this

 

On 12/10/2020 at 8:11 PM, -rascal- said:

 

Or give it to me...

I'll snip ALL the pins off, and make it into a keychain ... or display item (along with my Athlon XP 1700+ rev T-Bred CPU  )

That sounds like a plan.... apart from the giving to you part.... might make it for myself, to continue the outnumbering of keychain dogles compared to keys, its currently 6 to 2... we need to improve that