Need CPU repair/ help

[PachecoFTW]

Anyone in the east bay that can help or point me in the right direction to get my Ryzen 2600 tested and pins straightened out?
Typical ebay, sent me this CPU and arrived with a small chip and bent pins.
Want to dump this 2400g already but dont want to use a 2600x for regular computing.

[Jimboecv]

Check out Portable CIO in Alamo. Don't know if they can help you but we've been talking them our problems for a decade and have always been happy, nice people working out of their house. It's way more professional than I make it sound.

[67Cuda]

Purl Computers in Livermore. Brother in-law used them without issue. They've been there many years.

[Dragunov]

Get a small pair of hemostats, and a small dental tool, and do it yourself. It isn't that hard, just be careful. I've done it more times than I care to remember.

[the86d]

I am not sure of the distance between pins on a Ryzen...
but for older CPUs I used a credit card as a guide between rows.

Bent tweezers, and a razorblade as a guide?

[NorCalRefuge]

Get a Mechanical Pencil, empty the lead, and then use the tip as a "guide" for the pins to insert into, gently working it from side-to-side to straighten as you slide it eventually all the way on.

Never done this on a Ryzen, but worked wonders on all the Pentium 4's and similar back in my computer repair days...

Just go slowly, don't force anything, and be careful. Breaking one of those pins off will leave you with an expensive paperweight.

[MrBlazito]

Did the eBay Ad say anything about bent pins? If not, open an "item is not as described" case and get your refund. Sure, you can easily straighten the pins out, but why take a chance? If the pins are bent, who knows what else is wrong with this CPU. For all you know it might have been overclocked with higher than safe voltage, which causes the CPU to degrade.

[PachecoFTW]

Did the eBay Ad say anything about bent pins? If not, open an "item is not as described" case and get your refund. Sure, you can easily straighten the pins out, but why take a chance? If the pins are bent, who knows what else is wrong with this CPU. For all you know it might have been overclocked with higher than safe voltage, which causes the CPU to degrade.

Description: "used in good condition", but really someone yanked off the CPU fan and im guessing the CPU came off with it and recieved damage. I got my money back and a free damaged 2600, either way I purchased a 2600x because I will not be overclocking.

[PachecoFTW]

Get a Mechanical Pencil, empty the lead, and then use the tip as a "guide" for the pins to insert into, gently working it from side-to-side to straighten as you slide it eventually all the way on.

Never done this on a Ryzen, but worked wonders on all the Pentium 4's and similar back in my computer repair days...

Just go slowly, don't force anything, and be careful. Breaking one of those pins off will leave you with an expensive paperweight.

I have today off, I will be calling a couple places and depending on what they say I might just try this.

[PachecoFTW]

Get a small pair of hemostats, and a small dental tool, and do it yourself. It isn't that hard, just be careful. I've done it more times than I care to remember.

Even if I fixed it physically I need someone with a actual test bench set up to see what the damage is, so if its a bad CPU ill just dump it.

[Dragunov]

Even if I fixed it physically I need someone with a actual test bench set up to see what the damage is, so if its a bad CPU ill just dump it.

As long as the pins are back to original position, it shouldn't be an issue.

[PachecoFTW]

As long as the pins are back to original position, it shouldn't be an issue.

There is a small chip on the edge .and damaged pins also disrupt power imput, not always but I might get lucky.