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nicksinif

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i bent the pins on my cpu by accident, what should i do. they are bent pretty seriously
 
I had some bent ones on a cpu once but not all that bad.
A good way to try to straighten them I heard about was by getting a mechanical pencil and taking all the lead out then slipping the barrel of the pencil (where the lead comes out) over the pin as far as you can and try to straighten it. It might wotk, it might not. In any event, no matter how you try to straighten them out you must be extremely patient and careful.
 
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BigMacAttack said:
It looks like you'll need a set of small needle nose pliers to straighten those out.
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That happened to me once, and that's what I did. Just make sure all of the pins are pretty straight, and you are probably going to have to force the processor in the slot to straighten is the rest of the way. When the pins bend, you can never get them exactly straight by hand.
 
use a mechanical pencil (minus the lead) to straighten them. Also get a camera that has a macro mode ;)

Keep in mind - you want to straighten them with one move, the more you bend the pin - the more likely you are going to bend it right off.
 
If the above tricks don't work and you have no other options go to the AMD site and download a datasheet showing the pin assignments. It they are GND, VDD, or VSS (good chance since there are so many of them)... cut them off.
 
Frank4d said:
If the above tricks don't work and you have no other options go to the AMD site and download a datasheet showing the pin assignments. It they are GND, VDD, or VSS (good chance since there are so many of them)... cut them off.
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if you're lucky, you might cut off the right VID's and get instant higher vcore (for overclocking) or you might cut off some of them and unlock the cpu's multipliers :) or kill and burn it instantly
 
It doesn't matter what you use, just make sure to get them fairly strait and then put it into the socket. If you break a pin(s), then you are kind of screwed. You might get lucky and break one of the grounding pins, in that case you are fine. However if you get one of the other ones, you might get something important and kill the CPU. Btw, YGPM.
 
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