Question Dented AM4 Socket ?

[southcoastdj]

Hi,
Ive just managed to put some dents in my AM4 socket, its not broken anywhere just got a couple of deep dents due to 5600X chip with bent pins (now broken pins and ruined) trying to seated due to stuck to the cooler, I've got another chip to insert (properly) im just wondering if all would be OK?
Any suggestions would be helpful.

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Would be best if you took pictures(macro preferred then zoomed out), hosted your images on a site akin to Imgur and then passed on a link for us to see. Words hold little weight in this scenario.

Make and model of the motherboard?

5600x chip with bent pins(now broken pins and ruined)
You could resolder the broken pins onto the CPU's underside.

 

[USAFRet]

Hi,
Ive just managed to put some dents in my am4 socket, its not broken anywhere just got a couple of deep dents due to 5600x chip with bent pins(now broken pins and ruined) trying to seated due to stuck to the cooler, I've got another chip to insert (properly) im just wondering if all would be OK?
Any suggestions would be helpful.

Clear, close up, focused pics are required for this.

 

[southcoastdj]

Clear, close up, focused pics are required for this.

https://imgur.com/a/lTmuOQI

View: https://imgur.com/a/lTmuOQI


The board is Asus Prime A520m

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Would be best if you took pictures(macro preferred then zoomed out), hosted your images on a site akin to Imgur and then passed on a link for us to see. Words hold little weight in this scenario.

Make and model of the motherboard?

Asus Prime a520m

https://imgur.com/a/lTmuOQI

View: https://imgur.com/a/lTmuOQI

 

[CountMike]

https://imgur.com/a/lTmuOQI

View: https://imgur.com/a/lTmuOQI


The board is Asus Prime A520m

The one on left looks bad and plastic looks melted but if pin goes in that shouldn't make a problem,

 

[DavidM012]

I think the one on the right looks a lil rough like there's a tiny shard of something poking over the edge of the hole dunno if it could amputate a pin or not though.

To me both the left and right arrows point towards a band of something bridging two holes in the socket not sure if it's meant to be there or not. Other photos of am4 sockets on google don't show anything similar. What's baffling is how the anomalies got there in the first place and what they are. You would need a fine pair of tweezers and a magnifier to grasp whatever that is see if those two odd bands of something are removable.


What I'd suggest though is just put a finger lightly on the moving part of the socket and move the lever back and forth just to make sure it's sliding smoothly and flat and when you drop the cpu in if you're sure all the pins have plopped in the holes just again very lightly press the top of the cpu so it stays level when you secure the lever latch. Should be zero insertion force but in practice seems to get a bit rough after changing cpus even once or twice.

Far as repairing pins on the cpu depends where you are. If usa maybe northridge fix can do it for a fee (see their youtube channel) however many shops might only consider resoldering 1-3 pins as the success rate of the repair might decline with the number of pins eg. it's not a 100% guarantee that refixing the pins will mean the cpu still works. There could be microfractures under the joint where the pin meets the package if it was forcefully snapped or mashed. + More pins = more time = more work = more heat from soldering. You'd have to ask each shop for a quote send a photo they'll probably tell you up front if it's beyond repair.

There are 1331 pins on it. Resoldering 3 a day takes about 3.5 years. I'd go with both cpu and mobo are write offs. Many years ago you could send a mobo back to the manufacturer for reconditioning don't think they do it any more too complex.

When removing the cooler you always twist before pulling to break the adhesion to the thermal paste. These cpus are not secured with any force so attempting to radically dislocate the cooler vertically will also yank the cpu right out of the socket.