should i be worried

[mrrista77]

so I build my first gaming pc my first try it wouldn't boot so. I opened everything I took out the CPU and 3 of the pins where bent I fixed 2 and one of the fell of it was at one of the corners by the way so I still tried it everything is working I tried benchmarking it and everything seems to be normal but I am still wondering if I should be worried.

[aezakmi]

I've seen a CPU work without 20+ pins so you might be lucky but be careful next time

[Tabs]

If it works, and does everything you ask of it with no complaints, I'd say don't worry too much. Some pins on a socket are designed to be redundant - extra ground pins for example, or unused pins that may be used in a future design.

 

Be careful when you handle CPU's in future, but it sounds like you got lucky this time.

 

You might want to consider never removing the CPU from it's socket now - if the pins you fixed were bent outwards and then back in, the bonds will be very fragile. Removing the CPU for any reason could break them off entirely, potentially destroying both the COU and the board.

 

 

[WereCatf]

4 minutes ago, mrrista77 said:

so I build my first gaming pc my first try it wouldn't boot so. I opened everything I took out the CPU and 3 of the pins where bent I fixed 2 and one of the fell of it was at one of the corners by the way so I still tried it everything is working I tried benchmarking it and everything seems to be normal but I am still wondering if I should be worried.

If you were lucky, it was just a ground-pin. There are plenty of those on a CPU and they're all connected together inside, so one broken one might not cause issues. On the other hand, the issues may show up later on, there's really no way of knowing. No point in worrying about it, though; if you get issues with it, you'll get issues whether you worry about them prematurely or not.

[Lord Nicoll]

39 minutes ago, mrrista77 said:

so I build my first gaming pc my first try it wouldn't boot so. I opened everything I took out the CPU and 3 of the pins where bent I fixed 2 and one of the fell of it was at one of the corners by the way so I still tried it everything is working I tried benchmarking it and everything seems to be normal but I am still wondering if I should be worried.

Pins, sounds like AMD, what socket was it, typically they do make the pinouts of the sockets public, so if you really want to know what it was, identify the corner in the diagram and see what you broke off. If it works that's good, but check to make sure

1. All your RAM is detected and all your RAM channels, DIMM etc still work. I've seen damaged connections completely wipe out whole memory channels and DIMMs on board
2. That your PCIe lanes still work, Due to the nature of PCIe, if a pin is missing after lane one, it will just default to the highest possible config before the missing lane, assuming the device doesn't have the lanes or they're used elsewhere, I've had a GPU with a damaged 7th lane and it defaulted to 4X. similarly damaged 14th lane defaulted to 8X. 
3. Could have been an unused pin, for future use or testing, or ground or VCC for the core, none of those are really an issue most of the time

Try to be more careful next time, you can easily break them. Broken off pins are an absolute nightmare to resolder on the board from a donour CPU.  . 

Edited July 9, 2018 by Lord Nicoll
Fixed spelling errors