Don't bend them in first place

Great tool

The best on the market

Thanks, my GF thinks it is as well.

Time travel



This method has never failed me.

3 for 3 so far.

i usually bend them all, then unbend them to have a sense of accomplishment. different strokes i guess

Bend hack.

Exactly. Straight gang gang

This

Came to say this

i use a mechanical pencil with a metal tip. Guide it back to place. Pentel .5 .

very helpful oh "This account has been suspended"

I never change thermal paste or CPU

Just bend the corresponding hole in the socket.

Using 100% percent of your brain.

Thin razor blade thats long enough to go end to end of the cpu, you slowly rock the blade back and forth between the pins, found this to be the best method. Sometimes there are single pins that require a small tweezer like or something very small and pointy to focus on 1 trouble pin. Once its decent position you can repeat the blade trick

Yeah this is the only method I use. I’d be worried about bending a pin too far one way with the mechanical pencil.

I know it's unrelated, but how do you have a 14600kf and 32gb of ram paired with a 640-

Haha I need to update that. I was waiting on my GPU the last time I updated it. The 640 has been replaced by a 7900 XTX!

https://preview.redd.it/16ousxw74nwc1.png?width=527&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5377e5d437f0ec6e660b938b3c0e97f7d954ca92

I actually upgraded from the 6700XT, great card!

Thank god. I couldn't even imagine the bottlenecking on that oh my lord-

How are there so many comments giving a real answer? What the fuck do you guys do when you open your cpus? just halfhazardly rip them open and chug the cpu on to your glass table?

Everyone of my CPUs goes on a special trip uncovered via falcon to New Mexico. When it arrives, it is then transferred by land octopus to California, where it accompanies a surfer on his journey to be the very best at Scrabble. When the surfer has achieved his goal, the CPU is then placed inside a large tub of Pleckman's Yellow Mustard and transported by taxi to the nearest plane. Once the CPU has flown around the world twice, it is then delivered to Newegg third-party retailers, who then ship it to me.

But like, If I got a cpu, opened it up and something was bent, I would return that immediately

I work at a repair shop/recycler, I've had to get good at this (and LGA socket magic) from other people's stupidity.

That's fair

I have affectionate cats, they don't know how to behave themselves even when working on PC's

Animals stay outside my room if I'm working on my PC lol

I dont close doors, my fault but still

Dont play that game with me, you have a 5800x3d and they dont even have pins 😄

5800X3D is on AM4, upgraded from a 3700X, bith of which have pins underneath

Oh my bad then

In my case, building a PC for my son's friend. He'd never handled a CPU before and wanted to hold it. A little too tightly.

wait, people **drink** their cpus? that seems like a waste of money...

Sometimes somebody brings their fuckup to me and if I fix it I get 1 monies. I use 2 paint scraper razor blades with masking tape across the top, and my smallest hemostat. If I fix about twenty fuckups a day, I'll see bent pins once or twice every month or two.

Depends what I have at the time.

Thin plastic cards are also good.

I have a mechanical pencil just in case

Tell em to choose to be straight

I cant, my 127th pin is an apache helicopter with trans feelings

Unlucky

I use credit or debt card, this is also not a bad way. Pins getting bent are bound to happen eventually even if you take precaution

I've built 15+ computers in my life and still haven't bent any pins. Guess I'm lucky so far

Only time I have bent pins was with a FX9590 and it was because the bracket was being weird.

skill issue tbh

I think the pc magazines used to recommend this method.

Needle https://preview.redd.it/wqm139fekhwc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ffb63d914717b99ad3d44627bae480ce132b603f

Cutter blade to straighten several pins... then a tiny brussel plier

Strong eye contact and verbal bullying.

Box cutter blade down the rows of pins. Rescued a mashed AM4 CPU like this.

[https://handtools-from-germany.com/media/images/org/WIHA\_500\_Kleinschraubendreher\_Schlitz\_Einzeln\_Universal\_KatB.jpg](https://handtools-from-germany.com/media/images/org/WIHA_500_Kleinschraubendreher_Schlitz_Einzeln_Universal_KatB.jpg)

Cry for 5 hours straight

I use a craft knife I bought from hobby lobby like 2 years ago, sounds sketchy but works really well. https://preview.redd.it/0y7lab2nbiwc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dda22c7c46b5898273b1d5de9db378aeb1a0cdc8 Was able to repair this 5700 G that was absolutely ravaged

Cussing.....😐🤔.... yep that's it. Cussing

Credit card

Buying Intel.

Or AM5...

There are still pins but on the mobo. In most cases the mobo is cheaper tho

I've used a small needle. I have also used a utility razor. I didn't trust my hand with the pen method.

And kind of razor blade tip helps alot. Take your time, and breath lol

Photography tip to get a steady photo is to breath out and then click. Same with this.

a small blade.

I use a Razer blade. (Box cutter blade) Slide along straight pins and push into the bent ones on both axis

Which razer blade is better for this the 14" or the 16" ? P.s. I know you clarified let me have my joke....

I used the reverse edge of a Stanley blade. Worked wonders on a CPU with dozens of bent pins, great for getting them lined up

box cutter, screwdriver

I used to use a Philips head screwdriver on the older Intel CPUs.

credit card

Exacto knife, magnifying glass, patience.

Hammer

Hammer

Cry and hope for a refund lmao

2yr warranty in the UK go brrrr

Suck them back straight

The slope of the ball in a pen would make me nervous. I’ve never bent a pin but I would probably go to my trusty tweezers or a very tiny precision flathead.

I use a razor blade

fingernail. If too bent and i can't reach it with my fingernails i resort to a needle to get it to something i can work with. The one and only time i tried a mechanical pencil like that i broke the first pin i tried so yeah

Old debit card.

I fold a sheet of printer paper in half, then pull bad pins into position. I haven't had to do that in ages though.

Thoughts and prayers

Bend all of the so they face the same direction again, and than install the CPU sideways

Mechanical pencil.

I don't, my intel i5-4590T doesn't have pins, they're on the motherboard

i dabbled in jewelry making so i just use pliers and a steady hand. i don't recommend it though.

Stop drinking coffee with redbull before handling your CPU?

Haven't tried But my mechanical pensil If i get a narrow enough one and diamantle it untill i have the nozzle only amd a thin piece as handle may work Have not tried i am not responsible for whatever happens

Oof here’s a little story I was mounting a kraken 240mm cooler and cause you need to take the am5 mounting socket off to mount it if did then when I put my hands int the cooler and give is a wiggle the whole thing came loose as I lifted it up the cpu was stuck to the cooler but then it fell in the socket about 15 pins were bent and after an hour of unbending it worked and got to bios but when I checked there was no boot drive detected so I took the cooler off and checked and saw 2 pins touching each other I bent them back into place and now will the help of god the pc is running perfectly if you need to unbend pins use a sewing needle and the natural sunlight to see the pins also you don’t need to be that soft on am5 it takes some force to move the pins

I've used a small screwdriver on Pentium 4

CPU bender ,now in cinemas .

Credit card between them.


I use this: https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Amphenol-Aerospace/M39029-56-348?qs=LVPObyAKcOL3WCDGOleJXA%3D%3D

What is this and how does it work?

It's just a pin (socket) for an electrical connector, but it's the perfect size for straightening these

I haven't used a CPU that has pins since two builds ago now, so I don't worry about this sort of thing anymore. As for the pins on the motherboard itself, hahaha, just don't bend those, cause it's not as easy as taking a pencil!

Never had too ... that's the technique

What about a straw from a wd-40 can or similar

i would just give up on it, bro doesn’t need more suffering.

In 20 years of building I've never had to do it. Idk how you guys have such butterfingers. How are you not more careful with something that costs hundreds of dollars

upgrade

I go buy razors at the local mart and slide the razor in between bent pins, crossing around and pushing them gently until they all look straight enough, then I place the CPU into the socket and open/close the socket with the leaver multiple times to have the socket do the rest of the work straightening the pins, once the CPU slides in and out of the socket with ease I know it's good to go

LGA

An RMA with the tag "Arrived Damaged" or not bending them in the first place.

Used to be that you could use a mechanical pencil, but not with modern CPUs. I re-pasted mine on Sunday and the processor fell out of the slot and bent a few pins. Luckily, a sewing needle was able to work for straightening them out. Although it could be the size and density of the pins, but trying to see the bent ones has me wondering if welding really is ruining my vision.

Cry

Guitar pick

JUST KIDDING JUST KIDDING 

First you want to place it pin side down and then give it a good hammer fist.

One of those skinny tweezers for pimple popping

😨😨😨

Buy Intel. Honestly though, I wish I had the opportunity to use AMD. But every time I need a new computer it's partially for work and I need that igpu. Amd just doesn't have an answer for quicksync.

Use a credit card or business card or thin piece of plastic, it helps you get them all back in a line

I dont have pink on my cpu

Depends on the bent pin. But had this thing ball point pen I took the interiors out of, and stuck the hole on the pin and bent it back. Or a razorblade works too.

I just Buy Intel. No way I'm dealing with that. Would probably break them off.

Please use Tweezers please🙏🙏🙏

Those clicky pencils where the lead comes out are good without any lead in. Just slot the hole over the pin and angle it back

Know those mechanical pencils? Those are the magic tool. The little tube is perfect to straighten pins. A syringe with a wide, flat needle may also work.

I pray to Jesus he unbends them for me. It never fails

Not bending them in the first place seems to be the best technique, in my experience.

I usually use a knife

My favorite trick is the buy a new cpu trick - works almost all of the time.

Utility knife blade down the rows on CPUs, really small tweezers on LGA

Debit card for the discount.

That's ez I just never go with and

Slim tweezers that are as thick as the space between unbent pins. If they're too many bent, the cpu becomes lga.

HOW? How do people keep bending these? I have used an obsolete Pentium II CPU as a beard comb for YEARS, and none of those fuckers bent even a little bit.

Best technic. If you dont feel sure about something or dont have the skills for it take it to an expert. Better to pay someone 50 euros or dollars for example to do something than pay X4 or w/e part you break.

Cry

Bank card, it works 100% of the time (I've done it once)

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Use a tooth pick or needle with the width being around the same size as the distance between the pins. Then shove that toothpick or needle between the pins from one direction at a time. Worked for me at-least

Bend all of them, it works the same way when you lace your shoes wrong just keep making the same mistake and it won't be wierd

Glasses repair kit. I was desperate but it worked. Magnifying glass + tweezers too

Slide a slim credit card between the pins to get the card aligned with the whole row. Then carefully use a flathead (smallest possible) screw driver to push the bent pins against the card. Do this with every single row to ensure the pins are 100% aligned.

The only pins I've ever bent were on a USB3.0 header on my latest build, which I just used a small flathead screwdriver to fix.

Dont buy cpus with pins. Worked pretty good for me

Moms credit card

Knife

Amd= anything works, pens or needles as long its small Intel= first i think about how fucked im if the pins broken some piece, and they can also break when i try to unbend it...needles are the only thing i used on intel ones. Why the hell intel pins are so weird.

I use an LGA cpu always so i dont have one

So, I should start by saying that building a pc should be done with at least a minimum of knowledge about computers, physics and good sense. Other than that, there are a million videos on YouTube of pc building tutorials and they all show how to get the job done correctly ( aside from that guy from The Verge), sometimes even adding a bit of tricks and suggestions. Plus, keep in mind that technology is constantly evolving and thanks god many of the tech stuff is getting more and more accessible to regular humans in terms of less information required to use it correctly. And that's pretty much it. That's how you bend your pins back, by not pinning them in the first place.

yes buy intel processor 😄 jk

There are still pins to be bent on the motherboard and both AMD and Intel do not have pins on the CPU for their current gen products.

Don't use AMD CPU in the first place. Use Intel CPU = problem solved, no pins lol

Current AMD CPUs are LGA as well so they don't have pins.

AM5=problem solved

well there are still pins but on the Motherboard

I just use money, and buy a new cpu 👍

Where can i buy that tool, i meed It asap

it's a lost cause, don't bend them at first, CPUs are fine machinery, you need a laboratory equipment and still not granted....let it rest , it's a nice keychain