*My threads got merged so the beef of this thread is now a comment below the post, but this is relevant as well.
Wanted to know if these pins look normal for a LGA 1200 socket.
I did a little research, and it seems that the pins on these sockets are intended to be somewhat "bent," but I don't recall them being this bent when I first installed my CPU (although this could just be poor memory). I have been having issues with my PC suddenly not wanting to boot and was disassembling everything to breadboard the PC and hopefully diagnose an issue when I took the CPU out and saw the pins, my gut tells me that they are not bent as the CPU had been seated and working for about 2 months before my issues. But I just wanted to be sure that bent pins weren't causing my issue. Thanks for any help. Here are the pins in question:
Wanted to know if these pins look normal for a LGA 1200 socket.
I did a little research, and it seems that the pins on these sockets are intended to be somewhat "bent," but I don't recall them being this bent when I first installed my CPU (although this could just be poor memory). I have been having issues with my PC suddenly not wanting to boot and was disassembling everything to breadboard the PC and hopefully diagnose an issue when I took the CPU out and saw the pins, my gut tells me that they are not bent as the CPU had been seated and working for about 2 months before my issues. But I just wanted to be sure that bent pins weren't causing my issue. Thanks for any help. Here are the pins in question:
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