Discoloration on Intel i7-4930k advice?

[computerchickwv]

I am working on a rebuild for a customer. They brought in a tower that 'a friend' had tried to work on for them and would no longer POST. Upon inspection, I discovered that a couple of pins in the CPU socket were bent, so I ordered a new motherboard for them. I received the motherboard and as I was about to install the CPU, I realized that there is a discoloration along one corner of the contacts. I'm wondering whether it would be safe to try and use a 90% alcohol to clean the contacts? Or should I just try to install the CPU the way it is? Might this actually damage the new motherboard? Should I just tell the customer that they need a new CPU without even bothering to test it? These are expensive parts so I'm being cautious. I'll try to find a way to attach images of the discoloration (seeing if these links work)

https://postimg.org/image/fxjo8kfs9/
https://postimg.org/image/duduen5d5/
https://postimg.org/image/jju2yybjd/

 

[Ecky]

Install and test. I've seen discoloration on many working chips.

 

[computerchickwv]

Install and test. I've seen discoloration on many working chips.

I apologize if I'm posting this twice, but I'm not seeing my response show up in the thread.

I very much appreciate your quick response. I was wondering if you could take a quick look at the image links I provided and let me know if you still feel this would be the best course of action? I'm just trying to be very cautious as this could be a very expensive mistake for me if I damage the motherboard with a faulty CPU.

Thanks!

 

[Ecky]

Personally, I'd just plug it in. Chances of the CPU damaging the board without physically shorting/bridging the pins is highly unlikely.

 

[computerchickwv]

Thank you, I'll give it a shot 😀