In this guide, we'll show you how to fix bent CPU pins, as well as how to fix bent motherboard socket pins if you have an LGA motherboard. Bent socket pins are one of the main reasons for motherboard ...

Forget about reattaching the pin. Your best hope is that the pin is one of the many ground or Vcc+ pins in which case the processor may work fine without the one pin connected. Suggest you go to the ...

A few weeks ago, a user shared a case where an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU got burned. Further tests revealed that the issue happened due to an improper installation of the CPU, which caused damage to ...

A fun part of retro computing is saving ‘e-waste’ that was headed for certain destruction. These boards can have any number of defects, modifications and more that have to be remedied prior to using ...