Can you fix bent pins?

[kriptcs]

Hey everyone! So I was trying to change the cooler on my Ryzen 5 5600. I took it out of the socket and I was trying to clean it but I accidentally dropped it and quite a few pins bent.
I know, stupid situation to be in. What I ended up doing is grabbing a magnifying glass and carefully straightening the pins with a nail file.

I got it to the point where my cpu again fit in the socket. I put some fresh paste, put the cooler back (stock r5 cooler) and I booted it back on and everything seemed fine. I gamed on it as usual for the past 2 days and there seemed to be no issue.

Today tho I got a random bluescreen from something and when I turned by pc back on I got a bios error that CPU Temp is too high. I checked it in the bios and it was 78C.

I plugged everything out of it, open the side panel and checked everything. The VRM metal cooling thing was quite hot so I let it cool down. I also did leave the shitty case cooler unplugged. I plugged it back in and I booted the pc again and it's a bit better.

When I first booted it spiked to 85 then it went down to 50-60. I started downloading some game on steam and went again to 80 and now it's at about 76.

Is this normal? Is it possible that I damaged something to the point where my cpu temp gets wacky?

Worth nothing that usually I get 80-85 while playing and now it seems to still be the case as well after this issue.

[da na]

Looks like your thermal interface material is the issue, not bent pins. I'd reapply paste and make sure your cooler is well secured.

[kriptcs]

14 minutes ago, Mel0n. said:

Looks like your thermal interface material is the issue, not bent pins. I'd reapply paste and make sure your cooler is well secured.

so it cannot really be a cpu problem you say? It's more the cooling

[FI Fheonix]

Just now, kriptcs said:

so it cannot really be a cpu problem you say? It's more the cooling

Could be either but If you re-apply the Thermal paste it will help eliminate possible causes.

[da na]

14 minutes ago, kriptcs said:

so it cannot really be a cpu problem you say? It's more the cooling

No, bent pins will not cause CPU overheating. Poor contact with the cooler is the reason