Question Half broken pin on motherboard's CPU socket ?

[Zen44]

Motherboard: Asus ROG Strix B650E-F Gaming WiFi

HELP! Somehow I bent one of the pins on my motherboard's CPU socket, and when I tried to bend it back it broke in half... is this mobo dead now?

I'm afraid of putting my 7800X3D in to it just to get damaged or fried, is it worth a try or just get a new motherboard?

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

 

[QyInvoLing]

Send it to RMA.

 

[Zen44]

It's second hand buy and I don't know if the guarantee will cover it because I damaged it.

 

[USAFRet]

Send it to RMA.

RMA does not cover user induced damage.

 

[QyInvoLing]

RMA does not cover user induced damage.

In my region, ASUS, Giga and MSI offers paid/free repair for user-induced slight damage, including pin bent.

 

[USAFRet]

In my region, ASUS, Giga and MSI offers paid/free repair for user-induced slight damage, including pin bent.

OK...paid repair, maybe.

 

[bill001g]

Unfortunately most modern electronic is not repairable for a reasonable price and doing it your self tends to also not be economical because of the price of specialized tools.

If you are willing to spend some time doing some very tedious research you might find that you do not actually need that pin. There are diagrams of the pin layouts for cpu chips. A huge number of them are grounds and/or power. Many time you can run without all these. Data pins on the other hand are likely all required....but maybe they only run say the second set of memory slots.

 

[Randi Poling]

As one person said, you may NOT need that pin. However, if the whole socket needs replaced, I think its like 30, 40 dollars as theyd basically just desolder it from the board and put a new socket on it.

With that, at this point, you can pay for shipping to send it in to ASUS and find out how much it would cost, or bite the bullet and buy a new mobo.