Bent Pins

[GML3G0]

So, I decide I want to try to reapply AS5 to my CPU to see if maybe my high temps are a diode bug or if I didn't apply it good the first time. As I'm trying to remove the heatsink, for some reason, the socket lock lever let's my CPU out anyway, and my CPU comes out with some bent pins on one corner. Take a mini screwdriver and try to bend them back in place and reinstall everything and boot up my computer. Amazingly it starts. I was like... whew! But then, my previosuly stable overclock is no longer stable. Is this a problem I should be worried about? You think I damaged the CPU.

Also tried sanding the HSF and CPU a little bit with some 400 grit SP. Not exactly the mirror finish I was looking for on the CPU, but w/e. I think some copper started showing on one corner on the CPU.

 

[Mrvile]

I doubt that the pins did anything to your CPU, I bent my pins removing the CPU once, just bent them back and everything worked. And I doubt that your sanding job did anything either, you were just sanding the heat spreader, right?

 

[GML3G0]

yea, i bumped up the voltage a bit and it's stable now. yes, only sanded the heat spreader. i did some burning in (sentential's method) to get it stable at 1.4750 volts, guess reinstalling the CPU undid the results or something.

 

[imported_Kensai]

Coolio. Wait till you bend a pin on the S775s.

 

[GML3G0]

lol i swear, my heart skipped a beat when I saw those bent pins. I don't know why even with the lever locked, the CPU just popped out like that.

 

[Mrvile]

Originally posted by: Kensai
Coolio. Wait till you bend a pin on the S775s.

Hahaha. I thought the LGA775s were supposed to fix the pin problems on CPUs?

 

[DrMrLordX]

Originally posted by: Mrvile


Hahaha. I thought the LGA775s were supposed to fix the pin problems on CPUs?

I've heard the LGA775 platform is even worse in the bent-pin department. Aren't the motherboards only rated for 3 lifetime CPU seatings?

 

[AristoV300]

No they can handle more than three seatings. You are joking about LGA's and bent pins, right??

 

[CheesePoofs]

Originally posted by: GML3G0
yea, i bumped up the voltage a bit and it's stable now. yes, only sanded the heat spreader. i did some burning in (sentential's method) to get it stable at 1.4750 volts, guess reinstalling the CPU undid the results or something.

you sanded the heatspreader on the CPU?? Why did you sand it?

That would probably be the cause of your problems...most likely you didn't do it so so it's perfectly flat, or you made it rougher than it was.

 

[GML3G0]

what would that have to do w/ stability? my temps are the same.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Originally posted by: AristoV300
No they can handle more than three seatings. You are joking about LGA's and bent pins, right??

Well, I'm not trying to. That's what I read about LGA775 in a lot of the early review articles of the boards . . . frustration with the pins being on the motherboard instead of the processor. If those complaints have been addressed, then hey, all the better for LGA775 users.