motherboard or cpu issue?

[dethsight]

hello. i just got my gigabyte z170x-ultra gaming mobo and a core i7 6700k (along with other stuff for my upgrade). i put everything on outside the case and, to my dismay, i discovered that nothing happened when i turned on the power supply. i tested the PSU with the supplied test...thingy and it works. i've tried it with and without the ram and graphics card and notta. i did use the pre-applied thermal paste that was on the corsair H100i, but cleaned it off with rubbing alcohol and went with arctic silver 5. when i took out the CPU just to see if everything was on the up and up, i discovered that a pin somehow got bent. i used a tiny needle to try and move it back and it looked to be back to normal but its still not doing anything. did i just royally screw myself by attempting to fix the pin or could this just be a dead mobo? 

[dethsight]

i was afraid of that. i havent told them anything yet but i do have an RMA on it already. what a way to start my FIRST build.

[Moress]

4 minutes ago, dethsight said:

i was afraid of that. i havent told them anything yet but i do have an RMA on it already. what a way to start my FIRST build.

Did you press down on the cpu when you put it in the socket? Because youre not supposed to, and that would be the number 1 cause of pin bending

[dethsight]

Just now, Moress said:

Did you press down on the cpu when you put it in the socket? Because youre not supposed to, and that would be the number 1 cause of pin bending

i didn't. i did the "line it up then lower it down" method with the CPU wiggle method at the end.

[Moress]

5 minutes ago, dethsight said:

i didn't. i did the "line it up then lower it down" method with the CPU wiggle method at the end.

CPU wiggle? I never wiggled my cpu. Id say avoid that in the future.

[dethsight]

1 minute ago, Moress said:

CPU wiggle? I never wiggled my cpu. Id say avoid that in the future.

its in pretty much all of linus's pc builds.

[Sreno1]

4 minutes ago, Moress said:

CPU wiggle? I never wiggled my cpu. Id say avoid that in the future.

"wiggling" the CPU is safe. A little bit of pressure to wiggle it into place won't bend pins. The pin was probably already bent.

[dethsight]

10 minutes ago, Sreno1 said:

"wiggling" the CPU is safe. A little bit of pressure to wiggle it into place won't bend pins. The pin was probably already bent.

yea i went ahead and removed the cpu and checked the pins again. nothing was noticeably bent but i know they are incredibly sensitive. its all packaged back up now and will be back to newegg tomorrow. (the mobo at least)