CPU bent pins... Still works well

[Nathan69lol]

Alright so I bent some of my CPU pins while I was doing some cleaning. Now I did this some time ago, like about a year now I think by now.

The CPU seems to work fine, as I have ran some CPU test and I didn't notice anything.

I have a i7 6700k and a gigabyte z170x-gaming 

My real question is.... Should I try to fix it or leave the CPU alone

 

[Emberstone]

If it isn't broken, don't fix it.

[lewdicrous]

If it works fine then don't do anything to it.

Don't do anything that'll potentially make it worse.

[TheKDub]

9 minutes ago, Nathan69lol said:

Alright so I bent some of my CPU pins while I was doing some cleaning. Now I did this some time ago, like about a year now I think by now.

The CPU seems to work fine, as I have ran some CPU test and I didn't notice anything.

I have a i7 6700k and a gigabyte z170x-gaming 

My real question is.... Should I try to fix it or leave the CPU alone

 

If it's an i7 6700k, the CPU doesn't have pins as it uses a LGA socket (Land Grid Array). The motherboard has "pins" on it instead.

 

If it's working fine, then you might have gotten lucky and they still make contact. You could try carefully fixing them by using a needle or other pointy thin object of the sort. Or just play it "safe" and leave it as-is.

[Nathan69lol]

Yeah, I mixed up the wording. But I think you know what I mean

[Guest]

If it works, don't fix it.

[geo3]

Not all pins are used, and some are redundant, like there are several ground pins. 

[DwayneElizondo]

To  be sure on Intel's website there is a map of each pin of the mobo - try to figure out which one are those you bent. As geo3 said, some of the are redundant, but if some of the damaged ones are linked to power delivery I would stay away from overclocking.

(from personal experience, I barely bent 2 pins and said goodbye to dualchannel RAM)

[Nathan69lol]

6 hours ago, DwayneElizondo said:

To  be sure on Intel's website there is a map of each pin of the mobo - try to figure out which one are those you bent. As geo3 said, some of the are redundant, but if some of the damaged ones are linked to power delivery I would stay away from overclocking.

(from personal experience, I barely bent 2 pins and said goodbye to dualchannel RAM)

I had no idea that Intel gave that kind of information. Thank you.

I wasn't planning on OCIng since I bent those pins. 

The only good side is that the pins are on the side so I could try to fix them if needed.

 

[SupaKomputa]

make sure no pin criss cross each other. if it does, give a light tweez.