Crazy Cpu Gamble

[ScarOfAge]

Recently I was scrolling around on eBay for a CPU with bent pins that I could fix for some practice and maybe even flip. When I came across a listing that has a Ryzen 9 7900x listed for $125 with a seller that has over 10k items sold and according to the seller it doesn't boot at all. I followed up by asking him if he'd tested it on any other systems, and he responded with saying that he doesn't have the luxury to do so. Im wondering if this purchase is worth it, specifically as it is a complete gamble if it could work for me or not. I followed up by asking him if the CPU light turned on on his motherboard, and if he used any other chips in the system, he has yet to respond. Let me know what you guys think, any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Edit: guys I was just saying I was looking around for a CPU with bent pins not that the one I found was bent.

[Hinjima]

6 minutes ago, ScarOfAge said:

Recently I was scrolling around on eBay for a CPU with bent pins that I could fix for some practice and maybe even flip. When I came across a listing that has a Ryzen 9 7900x listed for $125 with a seller that has over 10k items sold and according to the seller it doesn't boot at all. I followed up by asking him if he'd tested it on any other systems, and he responded with saying that he doesn't have the luxury to do so. Im wondering if this purchase is worth it, specifically as it is a complete gamble if it could work for me or not. I followed up by asking him if the CPU light turned on on his motherboard, and if he used any other chips in the system, he has yet to respond. Let me know what you guys think, any help is greatly appreciated.

If you are fine with losing $125 then sure.

[Levent]

Bent pins generally result in loss features rather than no post. If they include the picture of bent pins, check the pin out. If not, keep your money.

[Skiiwee29]

Ryzen 7000 series doesn't have pins, they have contact pads, the pins are in the socket like Intel. If the chip won't post, its possible its a bad board. Boards go bad more than CPUs themselves.

[podkall]

19 minutes ago, ScarOfAge said:

Recently I was scrolling around on eBay for a CPU with bent pins that I could fix for some practice and maybe even flip. When I came across a listing that has a Ryzen 9 7900x listed for $125 with a seller that has over 10k items sold and according to the seller it doesn't boot at all.

Good luck finding bent pins on a CPU that doesn't have pins:

 

[podkall]

13 minutes ago, Hinjima said:

If you are fine with losing $125 then sure.

it's a lose considering AM5 has pins on motherboard side

[Hinjima]

1 minute ago, podkall said:

it's a lose considering AM5 has pins on motherboard side

So OP was only saying that he was looking around for CPU's with bent pins and came across this seller with a 7900x.

OP never said that the 7900x would have bent pins, only a pre story to how OP got there.

 

But you are not wrong.

[podkall]

Just now, Hinjima said:

So OP was only saying that he was looking around for CPU's with bent pins and came across this seller with a 7900x.

OP never said that the 7900x would have bent pins, only a pre story to how OP got there.

 

But you are not wrong.

I think they "hope" it would have bent pins, but for this CPU it wouldn't work

[Hinjima]

Just now, podkall said:

I think they "hope" it would have bent pins, but for this CPU it wouldn't work

It would have to be really mangled for it to have any pent pins, thats for sure

[ScarOfAge]

Just now, Skiiwee29 said:

Ryzen 7000 series doesn't have pins, they have contact pads, the pins are in the socket like Intel. If the chip won't post, its possible its a bad board. Boards go bad more than CPUs themselves.

I was saying that I was just browsing for some cpu's with bent pins when I came across this listing not that the listing it self had bent pins.

[ScarOfAge]

2 minutes ago, podkall said:

I think they "hope" it would have bent pins, but for this CPU it wouldn't work

i think NOT, and that what the other guy said is completely right and my wording was misleading.

[Tetras]

44 minutes ago, ScarOfAge said:

according to the seller it doesn't boot at all

Sometimes you get lucky and the seller tried a CPU that doesn't have BIOS support, but this CPU should be supported from the first BIOS release and with a CPU that is still actively for sale I'd have to ask: why didn't they just return it?

 

That said, there are A LOT of boot issues on AM5 boards that get misinterpreted, e.g. takes a very long time on first boot due to memory training, or cooler installation issue.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

"lets go gambling"

 

jokes aside 

1 hour ago, ScarOfAge said:

if he used any other chips in the system

if this is a yes then absolutely do not buy nor should you buy a chip with significant physical damage and if theres no info then still do not buy

 

the trick is to make it less up to chance and more like an informed decision instead of lets go gambling and proceeds to get an expensive paperweight, whenever i buy broken or half working boards i always ask details especially for ones with postcode or the ones that can sometimes turn on and other times not turn on and especially ask to test if possible cause whenever i miss any of these checks i tend to get an expensive paperweight most recent of which being a 16$ z87 pro4 (for reference got a working z97x soc at 30$ and theres a working mvii hero for 31$ available that im probably going to buy despite it being inferior to the soc cause resale value)

[xg32]

1 hour ago, ScarOfAge said:

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so they go as low as 300 new, it sounds like a motherboard problem but the seller might also not be telling the truth, i doubt u can flip it for much/worth the trouble, but for fun though? lol