1 Bent CPU Socket Pin

[alexblair]

I bought a motherboard over 30 days ago, and somehow, there is JUST 1, ONLY 1, bent CPU socket pin. Will the system still work?

 

[little_me]

In theory, maybe yes? (there are some not in use pins on Intel processors) but more than likely, system wont work.
If motherboard was dead on arrival, return it.
if you want to, you could try to bend the pin back, this is usually not too easy since there are a lot of pins close to each other.

 

[Ryan_78]

I don't see why it shouldn't. My friend built his fx 6300 rig and bent like 4 pins and he came to me for help. I slid a gift card in bewptween the pin s till I could put it into the socket. It works fine.

The easiest way to bend pins back are to slide a card like a credit card or gift card along the rows and columns and try to recetify the form of the pin. Then you put your CPU in and see if it works. If it doesn't, send it back for a new one.