bent pins motherboard socket 1700 ? or missing? system boots up without issues

[Tiber1337]

Hi,

 

I have purchased a refubrished Asus Prime Z790-P at a small discount , upon opening the box, I noticed a pin is bent , they are too small for me to notice what is wrong, it might be the cooper head of the pin that is bent , pin seems to be there, but looks smaller than others.

 

I will attach pictures so you can give an opinion.

 

I have installed a 14600kf , and everything works fine with exception of a bit higher temperatures, but that might be the cooler.

 

My questions to you are:

 

1. Should I go through the hassle of returning it and disassemble my whole pc?

2. Can anything go wrong in the future?

3. What tests can I make for to see if everything is actually fine?

4. Any other suggestions?

[RONOTHAN##]

5 minutes ago, Tiber1337 said:

1. Should I go through the hassle of returning it and disassemble my whole pc?

 

Depends on how good a deal you got for it. For $20, yeah keep it, who cares if it dies at that price? For $200, definitely go through the effort of returning it since that's new, good board money at that point. 

 

6 minutes ago, Tiber1337 said:

2. Can anything go wrong in the future?

 

In theory, but generally with socket damage, if there's issues you'd notice them pretty early on. 

 

7 minutes ago, Tiber1337 said:

3. What tests can I make for to see if everything is actually fine?

 

I'd run through a barage of CPU and memory stress tests to make sure. That said, if the pinout I've found is correct, and I have myself oriented correctly, that's just a ground pin on this board. There's many different ground pins, and realistically one being broken off/missing isn't going to change much for how the CPU runs. 

[Tech Reprise]

1 hour ago, Tiber1337 said:

Hi,

 

I have purchased a refubrished Asus Prime Z790-P at a small discount , upon opening the box, I noticed a pin is bent , they are too small for me to notice what is wrong, it might be the cooper head of the pin that is bent , pin seems to be there, but looks smaller than others.

 

I will attach pictures so you can give an opinion.

 

I have installed a 14600kf , and everything works fine with exception of a bit higher temperatures, but that might be the cooler.

 

My questions to you are:

 

1. Should I go through the hassle of returning it and disassemble my whole pc?

2. Can anything go wrong in the future?

3. What tests can I make for to see if everything is actually fine?

4. Any other suggestions?

Looks like a manufacturing defect. I had a similar issue with a MSI x670 Motherboard. It had 3 missing pins, system was booting fine. The board was replaced by MSI under DOA policy.

 

 

[y0ur5h4d0w]

well for my knowledge if something is wrong with the socket the computer might even not POST at all, if the computer get to your OS, i'd try stress testing one by one all the components, first the CPU, then the RAM, then the SSD/NVME then the GPU just to be sure that the missing/bent pin is not related to something important.

 

but still if you get to your OS it might even probably simply work fine, if i remember correctly from one of ltt's videos where linus was fixing bent pins on motherboards he said there's pins on CPUs/Motherboards that are "unused", if you're lucky you might be missing one of those, if not, RMA is the only solution, unless you bought it on ebay for a tiny price, then i'd still run it and if it dies it's not that big of an issue

 

 

about the temps it's probably fine, intel CPUs are pretty toasty so i wouldn't care much, if you notice some throttling i would consider changing or upgrading the cooler with more fans

[Tiber1337]

I benchamarked it with CPU Mark, and prime 95 for 10 minutes, it did not crash

 

Temps are 38 idle and 87  celcius in cpuMark, in prime95 it can go to 100 Celcius.  Cooler is Liquid Freezer lll 360 AIO. Room temperature is 26 degrees Celcius. 

 

I got it for 140$, bot huge discount, just did not want to go through the hassle of returning it if not neccesary, I'll see if the shop is willing to give me a voucher, if not I'll returne it

 

Here's a video of it :