I just broke my CPU socket.

[Guest]

I just accidentally bent the pins on my new LGA1150 board. I will have an i5-4440 soon (I gave it to my friend and she never used it, so I am getting it back). The way I bent them was with the cover that is supposed to prevent pin damage. I wa trying to put it back on and it slipped. How can I know I fixed the pins properly? Will I just have to try the CPU when I can? They look alright now.

[Skiiwee29]

Let us see a picture. 

[Guest]

Just now, legacy99 said:

Let us see a picture. 

Alright. It might be a few minutes.

[RollinLower]

the only way to know for sure is to try and put a chip in there. if you don't want to risk the I5 you could look online for cheap tester chips. from your name i take it you are dutch/belgian? you could try tweakers.net. 

[Guest]

Just now, RollinLower said:

the only way to know for sure is to try and put a chip in there. if you don't want to risk the I5 you could look online for cheap tester chips. from your name i take it you are dutch/belgian? you could try tweakers.net. 

I am in North America. The name is dutch though.

[Guest]

Switch to AMD, and you will be fine with sockets.

 

On topic: people have had lots of succes by taking the time and bending them all back. Can take a long time, and there are several youtube vids of the process.

 

EDIT: I suggest bending them all back as good as possible, before adding a CPU. Might short something out...

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Dutch-stoner said:

Switch to AMD, and you will be fine with sockets.

 

On topic: people have had lots of succes by taking the time and bending them all back. Can take a long time, and there are several youtube vids of the process.

Don't try to convert me or others on this thread please. I have already tried bending them back.

[RollinLower]

1 minute ago, Emma Nieuwenhuis said:

I am in North America. The name is dutch though.

well, you could still look on ebay or craigslist then for a 1150 celeron or pentium

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, Emma Nieuwenhuis said:

Alright. It might be a few minutes.

These are probably crappy photos, but here. I bent them right near the corner there. I think they look okay. I bent them back as well as I could.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

well, you could still look on ebay or craigslist then for a 1150 celeron or pentium

Yeah, I might. It would really suck if this doesn't work, as I just received it today, and it's never had a processor in it before.

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[RollinLower]

1 minute ago, Emma Nieuwenhuis said:

These are probably crappy photos, but here. I bent them right near the corner there. I think they look okay. I bent them back as well as I could.

oh that's definitely good enough. i have a (fully working!) Z87 motherboard with a socket in a much worse condition. the contact points on the chip are large enough to correct tiny amounts of disalignment of the pins.

[Skiiwee29]

From what I see, I dont think it will be an issue. Its very hard to see any damage or bent pins in the picture from my POV. 

[shadowbyte]

2 minutes ago, Emma Nieuwenhuis said:

These are probably crappy photos, but here. I bent them right near the corner there. I think they look okay. I bent them back as well as I could.

 

 

that's actually not that bad in terms of damage

take a bit more time to try to bend them back in a more precise manner if you choose, but it should work

[Badger906]

it should be fine! ive done worse

[Guest]

29 minutes ago, Badger906 said:

it should be fine! ive done worse

31 minutes ago, shadowbyte said:

that's actually not that bad in terms of damage

take a bit more time to try to bend them back in a more precise manner if you choose, but it should work

40 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

Let us see a picture. 

I'm glad it isn't anything like this.

[Salacious B Crum]

Check in with Paul's hardware on youtube he just mentioned bent pins in a recent video not sure it he has a video on it but he may provide some insight as he stated he's bent pins on more occasions that he would like to admit well actually did admit it

[WMGroomAK]

8 minutes ago, mrbilky said:

Check in with Paul's hardware on youtube he just mentioned bent pins in a recent video not sure it he has a video on it but he may provide some insight as he stated he's bent pins on more occasions that he would like to admit well actually did admit it

His video was on the differences between LGA and PGA sockets.  From what I remember, he said that he has not had much success with bending pins back in LGA sockets but has had more success with bending pins back on PGA CPUs.  

[Salacious B Crum]

ah my bad was interrupted by a phone call while watching must have missed that part