Broke AM4 Socket Cover

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I mounted the cooler way too tight on my MSI x370 Carbon motherboard and it resulted in the CPU losing contact with the pins in its default mounted state.

To resolve this, I opened up the mounting mechanism and realized a piece of the plastic was broken.

I am attaching pictures of how the socket looks like now & a replacement which I got from eBay. Is super glue the best way to fix the broken plastic piece and slide the cover on top?
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This is what I ordered -
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Superglue should work. Retention pressure was on the tabs and not bolted to the backplate?
 
either something wrong with that soocket thingy or that was some serious pressure applied off kilter and snapped it..... this is a new one to me beyond the crushing of the thinner modern intel chips but that is not the same thing either, terrible thing that is.. gorilla glue they make (exteme, super w/e you want to call it) takes forever to dry (without UV lights) but if it sets proper is some crazy fk tough, well beyond most of types of bonding agents (probab,y stick real nice to that socket plastic/material

superglue works well enough to make an emulsion with it and thermal paste to hold small ram sinks but may likely not prove strong enough to fix this (IMO seeing as it already snapped some tough ass material to begin with)
contact cement, epoxy or the extreme hold dark grey/black gorilla "goop" likely will work perfect, good luck o7
 
gigaxtreme1 said:
Superglue should work. Retention pressure was on the tabs and not bolted to the backplate?
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I think this was wobbly when it was working but actually snapped when I decided to take the socket apart, not from the pressure itself. It was so loose that sneezing would turn the PC off due to the CPU losing contact.

dragonstongue said:
either something wrong with that soocket thingy or that was some serious pressure applied off kilter and snapped it..... this is a new one to me beyond the crushing of the thinner modern intel chips but that is not the same thing either, terrible thing that is.. gorilla glue they make (exteme, super w/e you want to call it) takes forever to dry (without UV lights) but if it sets proper is some crazy fk tough, well beyond most of types of bonding agents (probab,y stick real nice to that socket plastic/material

superglue works well enough to make an emulsion with it and thermal paste to hold small ram sinks but may likely not prove strong enough to fix this (IMO seeing as it already snapped some tough ass material to begin with)
contact cement, epoxy or the extreme hold dark grey/black gorilla "goop" likely will work perfect, good luck o7
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Will try, hoping for the best. If it is fixed it goes in my friend's ryzen build.



Is there a way to replace the entire thing though? Or that would be too complicated?
 
dragonstongue said:
emulsion with it and thermal paste
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Mixing cyanoacrylate and greasy substances will cause weakness. Use a superglue gel and clean surfaces up after gluing with coarse plain paper sheet inserted under tab. Weird that would break. Might have been a defect in the socket material where the socket cover got caught.
Edit- I doubt you could replace the base. We are talking soldered pins.
 
I've seen plenty of bent pins but I've never seen that one before, that sucks!
 
Hate to see what you do to those pins on an intel socket. LOL

Time for a new board! Luckily a nice B450 board isn't that expensive.
 
Rvenger said:
Hate to see what you do to those pins on an intel socket. LOL

Time for a new board! Luckily a nice B450 board isn't that expensive.
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Already have the same one in my system, this is broken from December, thought I can fix it for a friend - I know it will work temporarily if I hold the CPU manually, need to jerry-rig some shit to make it stick.
 
Problem is is that's Bakelite, a thermoplastic which may not superglue well. Have you tried anything yet?
 
Look at the scoring in the PCB coating around the mounting holes. I would say you've got a very heavy screwdriver hand and are overtightening stuff by miles.
 
Did you ever install the new socket? Or what was the reason for purchasing the replacement socket?
 
Jandor said:
MSI is cheap chinese build, will always be, just like Asrock.
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You do know that pretty much all motherboards are made in Taiwan right? Most also use the same components from only a few sources to build these. Most of the sockets for CPU's come from either LOTES or Foxconn. It doesn't matter if we are talking about ASRock or GIGABYTE.
 
Dan_D said:
You do know that pretty much all motherboards are made in Taiwan right? Most also use the same components from only a few sources to build these. Most of the sockets for CPU's come from either LOTES or Foxconn. It doesn't matter if we are talking about ASRock or GIGABYTE.
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Sorry, you're right. Taiwan is Republic of China. I was taking about communist China (PRC). All MSI and Asrock boards are made in PRC and Asrock are designed in China too. Some of Asus, Gigabyte and other manufacturers are made in China (PRC) while their best boards are made in Taiwan.
The main problem with MSI is build quality and rather cheap components, not so great design. The main problems with Asrock are very cheap components and designed in China.
 
Jandor said:
Sorry, you're right. Taiwan is Republic of China. I was taking about communist China (PRC). All MSI and Asrock boards are made in PRC and Asrock are designed in China too. Some of Asus, Gigabyte and other manufacturers are made in China (PRC) while their best boards are made in Taiwan.
The main problem with MSI is build quality and rather cheap components, not so great design. The main problems with Asrock are very cheap components and designed in China.
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Not on the high end. On the higher end of the spectrum, it really doesn't matter. They all make good boards.
 
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