Discussing motherboard pins
Discussing motherboard pins
I think the CPU and cooler are more robust than the pins, so I’m hesitant to assume they’d fail first. I’ll just rely on your advice. Thanks for the suggestion. The distance isn’t too long by car—being in the neighborhood—and the roads are mostly smooth. If I oriented the parts toward the sky, it might help reduce movement. Using straps could also minimize vibration and wear compared to removing the GPU.
It's actually an SSD, but I think the motor and spinning disk need to be moving for that issue to appear on an HDD. I guess hard drives look more affordable compared to GPUs and CPUs, which is why I was curious about them.
It’s unlikely the pins were bent. Unless you loosened the socket and tried to twist a part of the CPU, it wouldn’t be possible to apply enough force to cause damage. For context, most consumer sockets are built to withstand around 50 pounds of pressure before damaging the chip.
I somehow distorted the pins since they were functioning properly before I did that. It might have been due to reinserting the fan, but either way I kept the CPU inside the motherboard slot the entire time and the pins bent. As a result, after the incident it refused to boot. This detail isn't important because the force from moving my whole case isn't the same as applying pressure to the CPU pins.