Question Building my first computer and had a question about the cpu socket pins

[AHalfSammich]

I’m building my first computer and couldn’t get it to boot. I’ve tried most the suggested things and my speaker doesn’t beep at all when I turn the system on. The board is a ASUS TUF B360 gaming pro WiFi and the ASUS page says no beeps means a memory or cpu problem. I’m fairly certain the RAM is inserted correctly, I’ve tried every placement and also tried just 1 stick in every slot. So I’m currently trying to troubleshoot the CPU. I took a close look at the socket and I think it has bent pins but I’m not entirely sure what that looks like, Ive included a picture. Any help would be much appreciated.

https://imgur.com/a/X6wSpeD

View: http://imgur.com/gallery/X6wSpeD

 

[jsmithepa]

That looks like affirmative damaged bottom middle 4 pins.

Bent pins is just a generic term used for pins not at their normal position. ALL pins should look IDENTICAL. If any of those are broken, cut, no way to "unbend" them, it's done for.

 

[AHalfSammich]

Thank you! I was able to bend them back and it booted right up, follow up question though, if they aren’t bent perfectly back could it cause performance loss In the cpu?