Can this be fixed?

[TrophyPete]

A local auction house is selling an Aorus Z690 with bent pins. There are currently no bids and it closes in less than a day. I have no experience bending pins or repairing MBs, but if anyone thinks it might be salvageable, I might take a flyer and bid $20 and see what happens. (Photo is from the auction website)

[RONOTHAN##]

It's hard to make that much out from the photo, so keep that in mind for the following statements. The top left bent pin looks bent, and that should be relatively easy to bend back. The pin directly above the capacitors though looks missing, so might require getting a new socket. It could still be there, again it's not high enough resolution to tell, but from first impressions that's what it looks like. Most pins in that area though are related to either ground or power, and there's enough of them that one missing pin isn't going to affect functionality. You can check a socket pinout to be sure, there are a lot that exist (I'd check myself, I just don't want to count and figure out which pin it lines up to). 

 

I'd pay $20 for that board though, it's not like you have much to lose with it. 

[Lurking]

Well, you can lose the $20 and your time, whatever that is worth.

 

I would be concerned that bent pin (or other undeclared damage!) could damage your CPU.  It goes without saying, this is not a sale with warranty or where they cover auxiliary damage this MB causes.

[TrophyPete]

Update:  thanks for your input.  I won the auction for $18 + some fees. Total bill is less than $25. If I can get it going I'll let you know.