Is there a broken pin on your Ryzen 5600X?
Is there a broken pin on your Ryzen 5600X?
Hey!
My friend apparently messed up his CPU while swapping the stock cooler for an aftermarket one (not sure exactly how he managed it) and damaged some of the pins. He sent me a blurry photo, thinking maybe bending the pins back up could fix it—probably just 5 pins, but it was closer to 10 and most were bent at a 90-degree angle.
I was halfway through repositioning them when I broke one off. From what I saw, the pin on row AD-15 with the name "VDD_18_S5" was damaged. The only info available is that it's always powered at 1.8 V.
I’m wondering how crucial that particular pin is. I was thinking about taking the CPU to a repair shop to straighten out the rest of the pins, but it would be pointless if one broken pin made the whole thing unusable. I don’t know the cost of replacing soldering pins, but it probably wouldn’t be worth it on a 100-dollar CPU. 😀
Ask the soldering price from repair shop. Also, it would be easy to solder a new pin in.
Here's how it's done: bending pins back and soldering new ones;
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF3T4tzIi88
This is Alex from NorthRidge Fix (US based). So, if you want to repair the CPU fully, you can send the chip to Alex.
Site:
https://northridgefix.com/
Alex, founder and owner of Northridge Fix, often posts electronics repair videos to his Youtube channel, that i find interesting and informative to watch.
They also sell all and every kind of equipment to do with electronics fixes. Soldering stations, microscopes, flux, capacitors, mosfets, connectors etc.
I found bent pins on my 5700g, it's simple to repair—just follow a YouTube tutorial.