Bent pins on an AMD FX 8350 processor.

[stchman]

I recently bought an AMD FX-8350 processor used off ebay. I paid $95 shipped which is a really good price as they are about $150 new. I used it to replace my FX-6300 as the 8350 is the fastes AMD processor my motherboard can support.

The processor is just the processor, no box. No biggie as I have a Cooler Master Hyper T4. I get the processor in and the idiot put the processor in an Intel box and taped it shut. Well turns out that at lest 20 pins were bent and some bent almost all the way over. I took pics and sent it to the seller. He offered me a full refund plus shipping if I sent the processor back. I figured that I have nothing to lose by trying to straighten out the bent pins. I think the guy also put the entire tube of Arctic Silver on the processor, that stuff was everywhere.

I managed to straighten out all the pins with my 0.7mm mechanical pencil after I removed the lead. I was able to install the processor (used Arctic Silver 5) on the mobo and everything seems to work as it should.

I ran a CPU stress program in Ubuntu called stress on all 8 modules for a couple of hours. My question is will this processor give me problems? The seller has said he'll give me a month to see if it gives me any problems.

Thanks.

 

[Gam3r01]

If you are confident in your work and the processor seems to be in working order you can use it no problem.
Unless any are broken off or not completely straight you should be okay.

 

[Rogue Leader]

Most of the time bent pins manifest themselves as memory issues, double check that all your memory is being seen and utilized by Windows, via Task Manager.

 

[stchman]

I have 16GB of RAM. Windows and Ubuntu see all 16GB. I will run memtest as well.

 

[Rogue Leader]

You're probably fine. A braver man than me after seeing that thermal paste and bent pins I would have said forget this.

 

[stchman]

You're probably fine. A braver man than me after seeing that thermal paste and bent pins I would have said forget this.

With the seller saying he'd give me a full refund, I figure I had nothing to lose.

He tried to tell me that he had no experience in shipping AMD processors. I found that hilarious.

 

[nukemaster]

I kind of want to see a picture of this cpu when you received it.

 

[stchman]

Well, I've been using the processor all day and everything seems to run 100%. I guess I can call t good.