Question Broken tiny pieces -- dangerous?

[charpour]

Hi all,

While installing the DDR4 memory, it seems that somehow I managed to break two tiny pin-like pieces on the memory slot (G.SKILL Trident Z), you can see the image here (red circles highlighting 4 of those, this is not the module with the broken ones shown here):

https://imgur.com/XN46ktn

View: https://i.imgur.com/XN46ktn.gif

https://imgur.com/0bLyUnr

View: https://i.imgur.com/0bLyUnr.png


Those are not the actual RAM pins that connect to the motherboard, they're sitting a bit above.

Does anyone know what those pins are used for and whether I should be worried? The RAM stick seems to be working fine at the moment.

Thanks

 

[Darkbreeze]

Can you post an image of the SIDE showing those?

 

[charpour]

Sure here it is from the front:

https://imgur.com/0bLyUnr

View: https://i.imgur.com/0bLyUnr.png

 

[GeorgeGod]

Sure here it is from the front:

https://imgur.com/0bLyUnr

View: https://i.imgur.com/0bLyUnr.png

if your pins are broken mauybe you have to buy a new ram or if the pins are not in place were should be on the stick you need to fix this becouse there are to small and are all side to side i would take something smaller than my hand like a knife etc

 

[Darkbreeze]

Still hard to tell, but those aren't pins I don't think. More likely they are solder points for something. Really, there is nothing on a memory module that isn't critical, so it's surprising that it's still working and if it is, then use it, but if you start to notice ANYTHING unusual, you may need to replace them.