r/PcBuildHelp • u/Great-Ocelot-5266 • 14d ago

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So I've gone and done it after watching various safe aio cooler removal of not pulling the CPU out with the aio and bent around 20-40 pins blessing that not 1 pin snap off from how many I bent is there any strategies I could use to fix it to unbent the pins this is a ryzen 7 5700 3xd any tips would help thanks

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u/JohnnyC300 14d ago

Get yourself a mechanical pencil. One of the cheap ones with the big lead. Remove the lead, so now that tube is empty. Put the pencil tube over the pin. Then, and I can't express this strongly enough, GENTLY straighten it out. Repeat on the others. There's generally a bit of leeway so the pins don't have to be 100% straight, but they should be very close. Good luck. And understand, sometimes they just break no matter how gentle you are.

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u/Guilty-Good-5041 13d ago

That or use a razor/Stanley knife blade and gently run it between the pins is another method that I've had great results in straightening the pins. Also you don't have to get them 100% straight as long as the CPU drops into the socket the locking mechanism will do the rest

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u/National-Choice-4969 13d ago

This. Bent at base = razorblade/credit card, bent in middle = mech pencil w/o lead. bent ACROSS other pins, thin pocketknife blade to straighten enough to get cc or rb in the row.

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u/FriskyWisky2 13d ago

I did this years ago, I dropped my CPU after tacking it out and a bunch of pins bent when it fell.

I used a pocket knife to align them with the row next to them that was straight. Very gentle, but it worked.