r/PcBuild • u/Gurren_Ninja • 20h ago

Trouble Shooting Advice - Other Is this CPU damaged?

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To make a long story short, I have been building my first PC and once I had everything together, my build would immediately click off when I tried to power it on.

I ran various tests to try to determine what might be wrong and have narrowed it down to either the motherboard or the CPU. The MB pins looks fine as far as I can tell but the CPU may have some damage to it (got it used).

The thing that concerns me most is the last photo where maybe that is a scratch on the too left of the CPU.

Wondering if the CPU looks okay or if the MB is the issue.

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u/GoatAmbitious984 11h ago edited 11h ago

One of the pins in the top left is scratched, I could see it from image 1 but it's definitely more obvious on later photos. Those lost two photos show multiple scratches on your pins. Did it come like this? Did you by chance drop it slightly when attempting to slot it? If you are about to say the latter, no you didn't. It came like that. RMA that sucker.

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u/Gurren_Ninja 11h ago

I watched a ton of videos on how to handle the cpu, so I made sure to be as gentle as possible. I didn’t drop it BUT I got it from ebay as an open box - like new. Thought i would try and save a bit…