Question Broken pin on Ryzen 5600X ?

[medimuso]

Hey!

So my friend kinda screwd up his cpu while changing out stock cooler to aftermarket one (not really sure how he managed to do it) and bent some pins.
He sent a blurry picture to me but thought it might be fixable by just bending pins back up (5 pins). Turns out it was closer to 10 pins and most of them were squashed 90 degrees.

Anyway.. I was halfway done bending them up and broke one off. From what I could find, I broke pin on row AD-15 with name "VDD_18_S5".
Only information I found on what it does is "VDD_18_S5 - Always on 1.8 V supply voltage".

So my question is, how important is that pin ?
I thought about taking cpu to a repair shop to bend rest of the pins up (rather not risk breaking another one) but it would be pointless if that 1 broken pin has bricked cpu. Don't know prices on soldering pins back up, but guessing that's expensive and not worth it on a 100$ cpu. 😀

 

[Aeacus]

Don't know prices on soldering pins back up, but guessing that's expensive

Ask the soldering price from repair shop. Also, it would be easy to solder a new pin in.

Here's how it's done: bending pins back and soldering new ones;

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF3T4tzIi88


This is Alex from NorthRidge Fix (US based). So, if you want to repair the CPU fully, you can send the chip to Alex.
Site: https://northridgefix.com/

Alex, founder and owner of Northridge Fix, often posts electronics repair videos to his Youtube channel, that i find interesting and informative to watch.
They also sell all and every kind of equipment to do with electronics fixes. Soldering stations, microscopes, flux, capacitors, mosfets, connectors etc.

 

[Eugene$$]

i had some bent pins on my 5700g, its easy to fix it just watch the youtube video

 

[Aeacus]

i had some bent pins on my 5700g, its easy to fix it just watch the youtube video

If you read all what OP said, then you'll know that the CPU has also one broken pin. This isn't that easy of a fix, instead needs expert in micro soldering.