How to Fix Bent CPU Pins 😱

[Spaball]

When he mentioned motherboard pins I felt pain at that image 😭

[TooMuchWork]

karma farming is crazy bruh like be helpful

[MechMK]

"Just don't have the problem you're asking a solution for" is the redditest answer available

[asmokun]

calling a mechanical pencil a pen really had me going.

[DownToEarthTech]

I had a 5800x with a bent pin, and I tried SO hard to be careful to not break it. I used an ifixit spudger to super lightly push it back into place... Just for it to snap as soon as I gave it the slightest amount of pressure. I just turned around and laid in the fetal position for a while.

[AXEY_EDITZZ]

Ryzen 7000 laughing in the corner

edit: almost three half of my replies are people who don't know amd ryzen cpus they think I am talking about intel

[mashroomek]

10th short waiting for Zach to talk about cheapest reasonable am5 build

[jaimewatson]

used the Razor blade method on some really badly bent pins, but it worked perfectly fine! Really recommend this one :)

[eysel_]

I once did bend motherboard CPU pins.

Used a magnifying glass and needlenose tweesers to unbend, and it's still running 3 years later now.

[austingarcia]

I upgraded to a Ryzen 2700 but it was on offer up and the pins were bent and it had 2 missing pins I got it for $100 and a 250gig ssd which was huge for me at the time. I straightened the pins but it didn’t work I found out online that you can sacrifice pins from another cpu to use for the missing pins I did this for like an hour or two and my pc wouldn’t post just for me to find out my new cpu wasn’t compatible with my old motherboard. I did end up getting it to work with a new motherboard though and it opened my eyes to the world of fixing my own electronics at a very young age.

[ElLoko]

Dental floss is pretty hype to straighten the pins, less risk of snapping them off.

[bmsuperstar]

I was cleaning my PC for a sale, when I dropped my CPU and bent a single pin.

After I stopped crying, I used a magnifying glass and a sewing needle to put it back in place.

[freudia]

I used a small screwdriver to bend back the pins on a Ryzen 5 3600 I bought off someone on Facebook (I didn’t examine it carefully enough when we met to see that three pins were bent). Was surprised and relieved to see it actually worked.

[qhoeger]

I do it all the time *I own a repair shop* I use guitar picks. The thin cheap ones from Amazon that come in packs of 100. They also work great for opening phones and tablets.

[spencercoombs]

I bought a z690 motherboard for my 13900k and the motherboard had bent pins on it i ended up fixing it with a sewing needle and the zoom on my phone😂

[yw]

Just remember those pins can be bent only 2-3 times before they brake

[titaniac]

One time I was doing some maintenance work on our old family computer. I took the cpu out of the socket and the pins ended up getting bent.
I was able to straighten them out 90% of the way with my screwdriver, then I went to put it back in the socket and it went like 20% of the way in. I used a little bit of force to push it in and it finished straightening them for me. (It’s an old AMD A10-6700 cpu)

[procrastinatingnerd]

I have used both the screw driver and the blade methods.
I have also fixed a motherboard that had about a dozen bent pins, that sucked. But I was able to save it!

[hundvd_]

Credit card seems the best, if it isn't too thick

[Tyler]

Precision xacto knife. Had an open box mobo come with a few bent pins and dried thermal paste in the socket. Fixed it right up, just be slow and patient.