Just found this channel and absolutely love it!

Little tip Graham - Get a propelling pencil - remove the lead then use it to bend pins back it slides over and restraightens the pin then you can just move the pins back easily been using that technique since AMD Duron chip!

"My computer has a Titan" "Oh wow I always wanted a titan graphics card" "No, no - my cpu cooler is a brand called Titan"

When he was bending the pins, I was at the edge of my seat!!!

I have encountered bent pins many times, each time trying a different method or tool to straighten them out. The best method i found (i swear i tried them all) was not the knife blade or tweezers to straighten the pins but a lowly mechanical pencil. Strange, huh? How I did it was to draw in the lead so that it wasn't able to write and inserted the bent pin into the pencils steel shaft, then pulled the encased pin in the direction I needed to "unbend" the pin. The steel shaft normally holds the lead very stiff and it is remarkably strong compared to the bent pins. By enveloping the pin with the steel shaft, you are able to apply just enough force to straighten the pin, as you go along. A simple 45° or 90° bent pins are quick and easy to straighten,as most bent pins are like this. Aligning them to the other pins takes more time but if you do enough pin straightening, you will know how much strength you need to bend the pins "just enough" to align them in the direction you need. I have done a few CPU'S (AMD) with bent pins and only a few less sockets using all kinds of techniques and testing various tool, noting my successes andfailures along the way. Thanks to friends with heavy hands and NO money to buy replacement parts., they have given me New skills.

I used PC Specialist twice for office pc's at work and found the build quality pretty good. I did not go for a ready made option though, but custom components. I found their website very good for choosing exactly which components I wanted so I always got a good pc without the hassle of building 20 or more for a decent price. Better than the generic Dell's of previous.

Just found this channel , been watching all the vids, some problems I have had with friends 💻 I've fixed. Great fella easy listening

Annie seems fine as a name bro, thanks a lot for your videos

well done, Mister, I have actually never attempted pin-damage, always fear this one the most.

Wow great job. Didn't even know the Intel pins could be bent but then again I'm careful with mbs lol

I re alligned the pins on my MSi Z270 Gaming m5 as well and one pin was missing but that luckily wasn't an essential pin. All good motherboard is working without issues.

Incredible work!

That is some surgeon skills there!

who else trys to predict possible diagnostic issues as the video repairs progress...😂💻..... luv ur vidz My Guy, there so theraputic and informative...👍

I use small empty pen to correct the bend pins. Just slide the pin in the hole and move it on the needed position.

Another useful video. Thanks

LGA pin-fixing skills excellent.

Nice work Graham. Greetings

It's nice that you explained heat exchange on that type of air cooler, all coolers look shiny and perfect, and even that cooler is far from perfect, All coolers are far from perfect since the dawn of Pcs, the reason is this. The metal that looks nice and shiny and perfectly fine, actually at high magnification has a vast amount of impurites, pits, lines and bumps. these impurities can cause very tiny heat pockets to develop, so that is why thermal compound is used. So to end the debate on how much compound you need; You should only need a small amount spread like butter over the cpu, a very thin layer, as all your aiming to do with it is fill those metal to metal impurities in both the cooler and the cpu's IHS.

*shudders* don't remind me of bent CPU pins! That happened to me when I was building my computer and I needed to re-seat the CPU! Fortunatly the CPU survived the "surgery" I had to do on it straightening the pins but still, that's one part of my life I never want to re-live.

I actually use an awl for this kind of stuff. works well, very precise.

Call it 'Jeremy'. Because 'POWERRRR!'

great save

great videos and love your channel

very interesting and well presented. i shall be lurking.

Great Job! Youre an expert! Nice to see youre channel! :-)

Had to do pin repair on a brand new Ryzen cpu out of the box. Heart fell out of my chest when I saw it but was thankful I got it pushed back and posted

Love your chanel keep the videos comeing👍👍👍👊

you are awesome! I would have been buying a new MB.

I also like using just a razor blade , never done it on an Intel board, just on a few AMD chips, I like to run it between the rows and wiggle side to side, easily straightens all bent pins in any given row at once!!! unless of course you get some that are completely layed over lol. Then gotta get them up first 😘 awesome video 👍

Not the worst I've seen. A customer of mine literally installed his CPU upside down. Bent every pin and the CPU itself. I fixed the CPU bending it back.

should you remove CMOS battery first? before resetting pins with a razor that is?

An air can spray nozzle extension straw might help to straighten the cpu pins.

My older M/B had the exact same problem. It's sitting in my parts box, as we speak. I could have sworn the CPU was compatible according to the Specs listed in the m/b hardware guide - but obviously not!

Nice video. If I was ever in a broken pin situation I'll probably just buy a new motherboard. Also wondering Is it possible to replace an entire CPU socket?

Call it Gunther!

good video

also been working on a broken motherboard with alot of bent pins, took me roughly 3-4 hours to bend them back into place

Big Bertha

This happend to me 2x i bent 2 pins while removing the cpu for an upgrade. First it was a celeronG3900 than i got the i3 6100 and than the i7 7700. Good thing is they were ground pins. but i didnt bend anything i removed the cpu straight up with no problem, its like the cpu is bending theme al the time. Thats why i got R7 2700X now, its simpeler to install and mentain !

The h310m is a decent budget board. It runs 8th and 9th gen cpus but needs the bios update for 9th gen. I have run i5s in that board or similar, it can run i7s too but I would not put an i7 in it nor do any overclocking.

hi, your videos are pieces of gold, thanks for sharing.

putting those pin back in place is like diffusing a bomb haha i tried those with an old cpu. after 1 hr of trying i threw it away and just bought a new one

I had bent pins on a board one time, I sorted it out though, bought another board lol. Seriously they were bad, so bad I did try but gave up hence the new board. I only had a magnifying glass and holding thant and trying to bend the pins was hard, I since bought a stand alone magnifyer which comes in handy for other hard to see jobs.

watching this gave me ptsd, if its one thing i hate doing is trying to realign bent pins i personally use a paperclip, it slips between the grooves perfectly

Call it Barnard!

vrms 123 degrees ??? damn thats hot. tmpin5 is usually the vram sensor isnt it.

Anne sounds good you know soon as you mention Ur Test PSU I kinda knew where you were going with it, so I Cresent it Anne, Or Big Ann, Big Annie. Also ever since you mentioned not tighten up the CPU screws or any other PC one,, cuz it's not going to be trading in bumpy steers, cuz it's not a car it Stuck with me, so I now apply that method, every time.

Matilda . . for the Antec PSU

I know...old video but I gotta comment...FINALLY....yes FINALLY someone who pronounces Asus...correctly for once!

Odd trick for this; use a hypodermic needle. I had some on hand for filling joints on woodworking repairs with glue, and a clean one turned out to be pretty much perfect for this because the hole gives you a little 'spoon' shape that makes guiding the pins way easier. Also less likely to cut anything by accident.

What Is a matter with the lga 1200? You might want to assume he touched it somehow but there wasn't fingers worth of pins. It didn't even look the the whole processor fell in there. The same thing happened to me three times now. The last example one on the edge popped out and was propped up by the plastic sidewall in a corner. It popped back in place but that board; a still no post asrock h570 steel legend that I have taken out the processor 2 times, and put it in 3 as I built it and had no drops. Other one was a brand new HD b560 asrock that was working fine after a new build and I wanted to try the h570 in 10100f i3 to see if it was faulty had no post, I t/s and eventually noticed two pins laying flat on the socket bed. I tried rebending them but bent a lot around them and lost the point of reference and then broke a pin or two and couldn't fix it. I had got that to replace a msi no post b560 board, after looking at it again;I see at least 3 isolated pins discolored. I asked msi for help and they just closed my ticket with no answer or anything. At least the asrock guy told me I can try to resend them. But there is no template and the more you have in one spot the harder they are to get to perfect height. They look to be bent in 3 directions, which until seeing you do it here, I wasn't sure how to go about it so thanks I have been subbed to you for a while and I never found this video until just now. So weird.

This is the very reason why i rarely remove an intel CPU unless necessary. It scares me the most if i see one bend

18:02 - 18:20 is definitely the best moment 😁

HWinfo64 is a great system monitor, especially with newer components. The 8350K on a H310 chipset based motherboard is such a waste of a K chip. That i3 8350K can basically run at 5GHz flat out on 4 cores with no problems but, without a Z-series chipset like the Z370 or Z390, the 8350K will just run at 4GHz. I would at least fish for an Z370 ASUS Prime or P board just to get it overclocking. I found a Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 for $145 and a $280 GOLDEN 8700K that does 5.3GHz with 1.380v. Or 5GHz with just 1.250v. It'll even run 5.4GHz with AIR or Water. I haven't even open up the IHS to use Liquid metal on it. i have everything i need but, the chip ran so good right out of the box, i just left it be. 8700K's tray CPU's can be found for $205 now. I picked up a few myself. Just gotta know where to look.

Just call her Annie: it's an Antec after all:)

Odd that you mentioned the bios update file issue. BMW cars have a flash update issue, that in some cases, the downloaded, zipped update file will not flash successfully to the car's module if you unzip it and use the unzipped files payload only. Fix is to include both the zipped file [raw download] and the unzipped files in the same flash file and perform the re-flash procedure with the "dual" contents. Perhaps, in some cases, the MB or module wants the zipped file and unzips it itself. Just a guess that the firmware dosen't know what to do with an unzipped file? In any case this is an interesting parallel between PCs and automotive. Cheers.

Buster.... maby!

The latest BIOS update for that mobo adds two more VRMs.

is it me or did he delete (pc specialist bios) after flash

H310 is compatible for 8th and 9th gen Intel CPUs and doesn't need a BIOS update. If I made a mistake, feel free to correct it

Call the Antec power sulply "Maggie" ;)

How can these pins bend in the first place? Assuming the CPU is well placed when it's built, nothing can happen, right? Gravity after a few years, perhaps, along with heat? I am puzzled...

My eyes can't see the pins well enough to repair them

I have a question with the apu ryzen cpu chips , should you still get a post even though cpu doesn’t support onboard graphics, new build

That 4pin is good for up to 150w so, it will be fine

Metal plating is at the molecular level and does not produce a thermal barrier. The only time you need to be concerned is if there are two physical pieces that are merged together, in which case there will be air barriers (that's the purpose of paste. When liquid metal is used as the interface the air barrier is removed and that's why liquid metal is so good (but dangerous)

Loving the channel and working my way through them. BUT is it necessary to comment that something is cheap. People build to budget and shouldn't be called out as a personal opinion. Other than that great videos.

Can you link the that pad you have there?

Name the 1000W Antec Big Wally. Looks like a good job on the pins, but I would not have reinstalled the i3 but just gone right to the i5 so I would only have to do it once. In truth, that 4-pin and VRM are fine since that's not an OC-capable board, right.

For CPU pins i use a credit card if the offending pin is alittle bent, the card allows you to straighten the pin back all around it gently using the rest of the pins near it. Or if it's unsavable then i also use the very same credit card to go buy a new one (while crying)

I have a H410 and a ASUS GTX 1070. H410 is a cheap MB, but it does whats its suppose to do. Got it for USD 50, the Z series can cost up to USD 500 in my country. But even my H410 comes with 8 pin and not 4 pin.

should call the psu, HMS Hood

the customer clearly wasn't as much of a *PC Specialist* as the manufacturer, or you :P

Whats wrong with your costumer ? K version i3 with H310 jesus love that 9600K with H310 chipset...perfection

What causes pins to bent in a socket?

I notice you never seem to wear an antistatic strap? Any reason why?

The 1000w should be called Anthony haha

Never understood how people bend pins so often and easily, I’ve never bent a pin in my life but I’ve straightened absolutely fu*king loads! Edit: A Stanley blade??? 😗😬🙄

how ppl can damage those pins. i dont get it

Call it “Ellie May”

Hi, have you ever tried to fix a CPU which has a missing broken-off pin?? I've an AM4 Ryzen with a broken off pin on outside edge. The mobo won't post with it missing (I was hoping it would be a ground pin or something). With the current cost of CPUs I'm tempted but also wondering whether a repair would be any good... and I concede it mightn't be :)

so, no XMP?

may i ask why you think 4 pin power pin are bad a lot of boards that had a 4 pin only one died because of the 4 pin

How is it possible to bend the pins like that with a CPU thats completely flat on the underside? And if you dropped the CPU in the socket on the side or something, wouldn't you have noticed and then said that that's waht happened?

80 defrees on the VRM is absolutely ok you should worry if they go above 100 and start the panic if u hit 120... its prolly just coz u dont like ASUS boards as u said which unfortunately for u are among the best ones on the market...

You may try a plastic credit card for straightening the pins of possible - far out

Graham clearly knows what he's doing and I've learnt many diagnostic tips from watching his videos. But I hold my breath every time he just perches the CPU cooler on the heatspreader during testing, with no mounting pressure or replacement of TIM. Those idle temps on the i3 in BIOS - 65 degrees C - ouch!

Im about to fix my 1st bend pin..

U never said which board you would put that 9600k into yourself...I'm saying an As Rock Z390 or Z370...

Jeff. Its name is Jeff.

I've seen the pins bent to either side but never flipped over backwards. That's skill or effort

1000th like

I', late as all hell, but the Antec should be called Auntie 1000

I'm curious to understand

Antec= the terminalator

Nice surgery! Does anyone else freak out whenever they are holding a CPU?

I have to say I've only seen a handful of your videos so far, but lots of these PCs you work on have some strange components to say the least. Maybe weird generic PC parts are more prevalent in the UK than US.

They installed the MB first and then tried to put the cpu in the socket.....dropping it on the pins once or twice in the process and pushing it in without checking first. I know because I have done it too many times lol.......

I only have a 4 Pin power on my board.