Bent socket pins but everything working.

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Hi all!

I recently upgraded most of my gaming PC, but had to replace i7 4970k horrible cooler with an aftermarket one since I was having heating issues, I replaced the CPU too in case it was faulty just to be sure.

Everything came today, but when I looked at the socket, I noticed 3 pins a bit bent, but I put the CPU and installed everything anyway. So far pc runs totally fine, I played for a while and saw no issues, I'm running prime95 right now and will leave it on for several hours to test how it goes.

I'm a bit stressed out about this, should I really worry? Would it harm the CPU or something? The motherboard is the MSI Z97 Gaming 5 if that helps.

Thanks.

 

[k1ng0d]

Hmmm As long as you don't really mess with the actuall cpu that much it should be fine. However you should definitely run prime 95 for at least 24 hours to make sure that nothing is wrong.