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Destroying 2700X in one easy step

Don't be so hard on yourself. I have what is called narcissistic perfection. Only a moron would make that kind of mistake. Safe to say you applied the grip it and rip it technique.
You have to have a little of humor to make a bad day a little better. The component you have to be careful with is DDR4. The pins are very close to even compared to DDR3 and earlier ram. It's easy to put DDR4 in backwards. The rule of the day, don't force it.
 
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The darn etched arrow on my 1700 and the motherboard socket were both so small and faint I nearly did the same. Sorry the hear that. Good luck with the magnifying glass and sewing needle trying to straighten them out.
 
Oh, sigh. Time to bust out the old anecdote.

I had a job at a startup, programming, when I was in my 20s. Well, the company needed some PCs (small company still), so I convinced them to go to a computer show, and I would build a few PCs. (This was back in the Pentium 75 era.)

Well, we acquired a pair of Pentium CPUs (labeled as 90Mhz, or 100Mhz, I forget, but they had their heatsinks attached, with some sort of thermal epoxy, so it was impossible to determine the actual CPU labeling, hence I think now that they were re-labeled 75Mhz units).

Anyways, when I went to install them, I aligned things "properly", and it booted, no problem.

So I took the second unit, aligned that one (using the heatsink, not the CPU!! ARG!!), assuming blindly that the heatsink/fan was attached in the same orientation as the first (That they were identical units, right?). Well, OOPS. Heatsink on second unit was 180o off from first unit, and CPU ended up going into the socket BACKWARDS (yes, you could easily do that back then). Powered-on before I noticed. Well, WHOOPS, fried CPU.

Thankfully, vendor exchanged it, after I explained (Small vendor, out of his garage). But I learned a valuable lesson, DONT ASSUME.

I guess Rudy learned that lesson too. :O

Edit: Another anecdote. The Athlon XP cores, had no heat-spreader, and you had to PROPERLY align the heatsinks for those CPUs, with the "bar" of the ZIF socket that they used, because there was an accomodation for that "bar" on the bottom of the heatsink. If you had it on BACKWARDS, you would CRACK THE CORE. Good-bye, CPU! (Thankfully, those CPUs were amazingly in-expensive at the time. I think that was my first beyond-Ghz CPU. I loved that rig.)
 
Markfw said:
Well, just think of it this way, A good excuse to get a 3900x or a 3950x !
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If it was to create an excuse to upgrade, he should have waited a few months for Ryzen 4000. Speaking of which, I think my old core 2 quad needs to have a little “accident” in about 4 months...
 
Rudy Toody said:
I was moving it out of the way for a 3900X, which is on Asteroids as I write this.
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So now you can buy another one !

And if you are worried, I have a 3900x in a x370, and in two in x470's, and a 3950x in a x570.

Trying right now on a x470 with a 3900x win 10. The other 3900x/x470 is running linux.
 
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I've had really good luck bending pins back - only lost one AMD 6300 late last year that I got from a friend pre-bent, which IMO hardly qualifies as a loss these days 😀

Although I will say that I have never moved them once they are working in a motherboard, I count my blessings and consider that their permanent home!
 
Rudy Toody said:
I am not alone!
EBay has a bunch of 2700Xs with bent pins for $81.00 and the good ones get around $200.00.
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But... why?

I am pretty serious. 1600 AF (aka 2600) is regularly $85 brand new and a 3600 is regularly ~ $160 with the 2600x in there somewhere. I bought my 2700x new at Microcenter for $135. With a $20 break on the motherboard.

I've noticed all prices (seemingly) going up on eBay. Video card hunting is my jam, and I am always looking for deals that I may or not pick up. The sub $50 market is jut terrible atm. Even the RX 470 through 580 lines have been inching upward in prices, even though you'd think that the mining craze had minted near infinite numbers of them.
 
My RX 580 is going up in value? Awesome! 😀 ,anyone want it for £200? 😉
And apparently 6MB Voodoo 1s are going for ~$100!
 
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