Do I need every single pin on a CPU?

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Salvador

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I'm so f*cking mad!!! :| I just went to build my first socket 754 system and I dropped the stupid chip and bent the pins on the back. I was carefully trying to straighten them out and ended up snapping one off. How important is it that I have all of the pins?

You know.. Because of all the people that couldn't install a chip properly without cracking the core, I have to deal with this crap. The added weight of the chip made it clumsy and it fell out of my hands. I never had this kind of problem with the socket A cpu's.

 
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Avalon

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There's a decent chance it was just a ground pin or a pin that won't effect the operation of the chip. I know I see a post on here every once in a while where someone broke a pin but it ran just fine. I'd go ahead and give it a try.
 
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davegraham

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lol...DAMN AMD! if their chips weren't so fscking heavy...

yeah, you need all the pins. RMA and get over it.

dave
 
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Salvador

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Originally posted by: davegraham
lol...DAMN AMD! if their chips weren't so fscking heavy...

yeah, you need all the pins. RMA and get over it.

dave
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How do I RMA a chip that I ruined by dropping it?

It's not that it's so heavy, it's just that it's weighted oddly. As soon as I pulled it out of the package, it flipped out of my hand.
 
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Salvador

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Retail chip. Some of the pins in the area where the pin broke off are still bent. If they looked at it, they could tell what happened.
 
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biostud

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Originally posted by: Salvador
The added weight of the chip made it clumsy and it fell out of my hands.
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Sorry, about your loss but I find that comment extremely funny.

 
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Griswold

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Originally posted by: Salvador
You know.. Because of all the people that couldn't install a chip properly without cracking the core, I have to deal with this crap. The added weight of the chip made it clumsy and it fell out of my hands. I never had this kind of problem with the socket A cpu's.
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Thats a funny one, made my day. :D

 
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T101

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Originally posted by: Salvador
If I do RMA the cpu, what do I tell them?
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Tell them you recieved it like that. If you ordered it by mail, it could have been damaged during transport. However, I do not know if the warranty does cover damage during transport.

 
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Salvador

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Originally posted by: biostud
Originally posted by: Salvador
The added weight of the chip made it clumsy and it fell out of my hands.
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Sorry, about your loss but I find that comment extremely funny.
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Why? It's weighted on the one side and it makes it clumsy. I tried not to touch the hs area or the pin area and because I didn't have a good grip on it, the chip flipped out of my hand.

It's my understanding that the partial reason why they added the solid hs area around the core was to cover the delicate core to prevent people from chipping it during installs.
 
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Am I in the minority in saying be honest with AMD. Tell them what happened. If they help you out and send another, fantastic. If they don't, well, you know, we all make mistakes--just buy another chip and get on with life.
 
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imported_michaelpatrick33

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Originally posted by: Salvador
Originally posted by: biostud
Originally posted by: Salvador
The added weight of the chip made it clumsy and it fell out of my hands.
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Sorry, about your loss but I find that comment extremely funny.
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Why? It's weighted on the one side and it makes it clumsy. I tried not to touch the hs area or the pin area and because I didn't have a good grip on it, the chip flipped out of my hand.

It's my understanding that the partial reason why they added the solid hs area around the core was to cover the delicate core to prevent people from chipping it during installs.
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You are joking right? You can't be serious that the cpu is made wrong because you dropped it. I am sorry but that deserves a :roll: and a :laugh:
It's weighted on one side? Come on, stop rationalizing your dropping it to the cpu and just admit you dropped it by accident. I dropped a hard-drive once and it went kaboom but I didn't call Western Digital and state that the front end is heavier than the back end so I should get a RMA.
 
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L00PY

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Like wseyller said, you can look up the pins and see which pins do what. If it's one of the many ground pins, it should run fine without it.

As for the RMA issue, it's a matter of ethics. Some people are fine with suggesting an RMA for a user induced error. Some people are also fine with using the five-fingered discount to score computer gear from big box retailers. And others didn't think anyone would mind if JEDI and Chewco used the "force" to boost balance sheets. If you weren't taught differently or if everyone one says it's okay, that makes it okay, right? :roll:

I say chalk it up to experience and own up for your own mistake. If it turns out that it was a pin you needed, I've heard that people have gotten jewelers to fix their chips, resoldering pins in place.
 
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Lithan

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Originally posted by: ramuman
Originally posted by: n19htmare
http://www.motherboardrepair.com/index.php?sec=procrep
I've gotten processor repaired from him. works like a charm.
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That seems like the best option. 30 bucks isn't bad. I consider myself pretty good at soldering, and I'd be damned if I could get my iron to one of the middle pins.
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I'm guessing he uses a soldering iron with a grabber tip and actually uses the PIN to melt the solder, not the iron tip. I could do it if I practiced a few times on a dead proc first, but yeah it wouldn't be a cakewalk or anything.
 
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Andres3605

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Originally posted by: Salvador
You know.. Because of all the people that couldn't install a chip properly without cracking the core, I have to deal with this crap. The added weight of the chip made it clumsy and it fell out of my hands. I never had this kind of problem with the socket A cpu's.
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LMAO, your chip is alive :Q
 
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n19htmare

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Probably don't want to use solder on the pins as it may melt and cause more trouble than that.

I would prefer to use a Micro Weld to put it back on. Some jewlery shops are equiped with them.
 
Capt Caveman

Capt Caveman

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Can he fry the cpu by just trying to power it up w/ the broken pin? If yes, then I'd think he's better off trying to get the pin replaced for $30.
 
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