Ita a good idea to do this if you can. I get a TON of recycled computers and strip them down. I hate AMD CPUs because of how easily they get damaged. I just dont have the time or luxury to run stress tests on the stuff I get. Wish AMD would give up the PGA design and move to LGA.
I actually did this yesterday, not even a stress test but played borderlands 3 for several hours before taking my 3600 out for new 3900x, even with it definitely warmed up and breaking the paste CPU still stuck to cooler xD, and bent 5 pins, ran a razer blade down the rows of pins and BAM fixed
Been fixing bent pins since the 486 days. Old mechanical pencil to bend the pins back and then use an old credit card to check for trueness from every direction on the rows themselves. Fixed hundreds of "dead" processors this way over the years. :)
For most bend pins, i use a sewing needle, it fits between the pins, and a few times in both directions, and the pins are straight again. Quick and easy tip.
I just did the same yesterday night on a Ryzen 5900x, thought it would be hard, but it's very easy as the pins are very manipulable, that's why they bend so easily too. After that, I use flat object to pas between them to fix all alignments around affected area.
A credit card is really great to get the rows to line up. They fit perfect between the pins and move a whole row at once, really good for that final touch and get them perfect. Also the pins fit inside the tip of a mechanical pencil with no lead good 360 control if your careful. Love the TYC!
I've been down this road, things I've learned. Do not use the pre-applied paste on AMD supplied coolers, wipe it off and apply something else. It can be like super glue hard to remove, I had room to twist and pull, made no difference, it wasn't moving. Ended up bending many pins on my R 2600 as it came out of the socket with the cooler. Bent most of them back, but 4 broke off completely after trying to straighten. Thought I was screwed, looked for CPU pin wiring diagrams (no luck there), decided to reinstall and give it a go, works perfect, even with 4 broken pins. Used a magnifying glass and if you have the right size mechanical pencil, use the empty tip. And nice work with that screwdriver! When you get older and lose your eyesight that becomes much more difficult.
As for a final check for straightness, I slide a thin credit card down the row to make sure all the pins line up. Worked great on Phenom II and FX processors, haven't had to yet on Ryzen
My friend smacked his ryzen 3 1200 into his case while removing it from the cooler. He bent over half the pins. After 3 hours of work I was able to get them all back and only lost 2 pins. CPU still works perfectly fine to today. And if you are wondering why I wasted time with a 1200, I did it to help my friend and I did it to have some fun.
I hate when the CPU gets stuck to the Ryzen stock cooler (Wraith Prism) and CPU is removed from the socket along with the cooler... I wish the retention mechanism on AM4 was better. With Noctua coolers, it works perfectly well.
You do a really good job of making the viewer feel included and like I'm taking the journey with you in all your videos. When you do the used parts hunts and say things like "let's see if they take OUR offer" or "hopefully they like OUR bid and call US back" I always find myself feeling like I do when I'm actually in that spot and hoping they call you back lol. I love it. 🍻🍻🍻
@@DraftySatyr if you read what I wrote, i know exactly what he's doing, why, how it's worded and i appreciate it. I work for a production group lol. The vlog, no story, 1000 cut and low production youtube has run its course. I like a story, journey, inclusion and being brought along. If you don't then that's on you not me lol.
Just tried this method to sort out half a dozen bent pins on a r5 1600 - it took a bit of patience but it worked! I began wondering as I was going through the motions if a straight razor might have been more efficient for lining up bent pins to the other pins in the row. Good stuff all the same and thanks for showing me it can be done (with a little tech yes loving)
i was having a panic attack when i dropped my 3600 in my case after chaning stock fan i used a sewing needle. At first it would go in but there was a still a bent pin or 2 i straightned them more and the noticed it was wobblying on the pcb, i then just pushed it in hard and it virtually clicked and thank god it worked the most sweatiest heart racing adrenline shakey experince of my life. i was there trying to rebend pins shaking like mad.
Absolutely saved me. Tried installing my new processor only to drop it as I took it out of the box, bent an entire row of pins. I was sure my goose was cooked - thanks to your helpful guide and two hours or careful CPU surgery I'm proud to say I fully fixed my CPU! Slotted in nicely and posted fine, I've been running benchmarks on it all day and it's going strong, even overclocked with no issues!
I got my R5 2600 pins bent before removing the MB from the case. Bent the pins by removing the Cooler. Realigned the pins with a 1mm pin needle. It booted. I had this confidence of doing this because of you. More power to ya Sir!
This brings back some memories. Worked at a job where a guy knocked a bunch of P4's off a workbench and I had to bend them all back. I used the same method back then. Tiny jewelers flat head. Excellent video man. Too many people think if they even get bent slightly, the CPU's done.
Bryan, these are the exact sorts of videos I come to your channel for. I learn something, enjoy watching, and appreciate the company. You're doing great work for the community. Thank you.
I wanted to change my thermal paste and ended up ripping the cpu right from the socket with a few bent pins. I used your method to straighten out the pins and lucky for me, the cpu and mobo was still good. Thanks a bunch!
I had the same nightmare with my 3900x (stuck to the stock cooler), got lucky and only had to bend 2 pins back. I used a few different knife blades and flat blade screw drivers, since it's nice and easy to get between the rows while stiff enough to apply pressure with. Once you get the pins straight enough to drop in the socket takes care of the rest, hardest part is keeping your hands steady when the cost of replacement and lack of availability is hanging over your head
@Tech YES City there is the credit card method to straighten the pins as you can line up the pins straight and let the socket straighten the pins further. We use this method when I was working for companies that were building PCs.
I was 250 miles away from home fixing a computer for a family member who had bent the pins. It was an old 8350 FX. I ended up using a real thin plastic card and to be honest with you I didn't think I could do it. It works big :-)
I tried to fix a pin on my 5600x, that i dropped when i got it (on a table). I used a tool from my ifixit kit, it worked, but it was a bit hard to put it in the socket. Today when i was trubleshooting my pc, i tried to make the pin straighter, which ended up bending more pins. Your video saved me.
Massive thanks for this, had a ben pin on a 5900X, and following this guide has got it happily back into the AM4 board without any sticking, just dropped in.
I had a Phenom II 555 BE, It had several pins broken off and some bent. I straightened the pin using some solid but thin tweezers. What I did was passed the two tweezers hands around some 8-10 pins on the x-axis and then repeated on the y-axis. Worked like a charm. I used this CPU unlocked to X4 B55 for 3 or 4 years. The broken pins were either blank or extra ground pins. Amd is smart enough to put less important pins, the ground ones and server use only pins on the outer rim of the cpu. That's my experience. If you want I could even send you the Phenom for inspection.
Best method is to use a mechanical pencil with a long metal lead tube tip, remove lead, put the pin in the tip, and use the whole pencil to slowly bend the pin back. Been doing this since the athlon/phenom days. In fact I have a pentel drafting pencil I keep around specifically for cpu pins.
I've straightened many a bent pin and even soldered a few, luckily they were on the edge so it wasn't too difficult. I use a credit card to check alignment after straightening them.
Done this myself when selling my old R3 1200. It had a few bent pins from not handling it carefully. It's hard to make them out with the naked eye, even under a lamp, but after a few minutes I was able to put them all back. I used a small switchblade (it was think enough to fit between the pins) and a small screwdriver.
I bent the pins on my old ryzen cpu the exact same way. Cooler took the cpu with it and I dropped it not even knowing the cpu was still attached. Luckily it was only 2-3 pins on the side.
Just got a 5800x dirt cheap has about 4-5 slight bent pins. This video makes me feel better about trying to fix it. Ordered a powered magnifying glass and some super small tools. wish me luck.
I was taking off an Asetek AIO on my 5800X and it ripped the CPU out of the socket and bent the pins. It was the most stressful 5 minutes of my life but this video saved my life and $440
I've made your mistake on the 3900x twice now... My heart stopped. I warmed it up with a stress test, did the jiggle(may have been a mistake in the end) and it still came out with my Noctua D15, 3 corner pins bent out the gate. Then after managing to get it off the cooler with a hair drier twisting it I drop it inside my case bending the opposite corner. 30 minutes of bending with a sewing needle until it sat flush... with a tap at the end. All good so far. I can't wait for AMD to switch, AM4 is held in by a garbage slide mechanism relying on friction. Well now the pins are thin with less surface area and shiny gold plated copper to begin with, I can't change the cooler without risking pulling it out of the socket. The cooler and processor are one now as far as I'm concerned.
Just an hour ago when i came home, i opened my CPU box to check out my brand new CPU that arrived 2 days ago. I noticed that a few pins bent, because yesterday i put the CPU in the plastic cover the wrong way, and i didn't notice it yesterday. Luckily, a relative of mine gave me a box of that exact same screwdriver kit, because i told him i'm building a new PC, and that i needed small and big screwdrivers for it. So i got lucky this time, i'll be building the pc in 3 days, that's when the GPU will arrive. Let's hope all the touching i did won't do anything to the PC, and that the CPU will work fine.
Saved a RYZEN 1200 that I got for $40 with the cooler. I used the same technique. This is not the first time I have fixed a CPU with this method either. Patience Patience Patience!!! TYC always love the content m8 :)
_As an anecdote._ When I was ready to change the Wraith Prism for an AIO, I didn't use my PC for 2 days (so imagine the thermal paste ...), when I was about to remove the Prism I remembered the method of turning it a little bit and suddenly ... The Prism comes out with my 2700x attached to it ... I think it's one of the 5 times I have been most scared in my tech life, so after a bit of movement I can take it off and observe the worst, like 10 bent pins. So with a needle I prepared to bend them (it is not my first time, since I do it regularly with LGA but it was my first time with PGA), after about 20-25min and with tears in my eyes, for me surprise my 2700x still works without any problem . In summary or TL; DR: do a CPU test to leave the CPU / paste / Cooler warm, be careful -with this bitch- Wraith Prism (or the little brothers for that matter) and if you have a bent pin or pins BE PATIENT because if they are not broken, they can still be repaired/bend back. Great video.
I have done this before, just need good hands, good eyes & lots of patience. The hardest fix I did was a B250 Motherboard that someone dropped a CPU on the Socket & bent several Pins over. I managed to fix it with a Small Flat Head Screw Driver & an Exacto Knife with the tip bent in a very small hook shape.
Also, if that case of the CPU still doesn't go in at one corner despite you tried your best to bend the pins straight, sometimes instead of inspecting it all over again, trying to (very, very gently) fit that corner into the socket first will get it to fit in, and you just tighten the socket to completely bend the pin back
I bought an open box CPU (used warehouse deals) that was about $100 off, but failed to mention bent pins, but it had three or four bent with one bent severely down at 90 degrees. I thought about sending it back, but then decided to give it a try. In the old days we used credit cards, but the Ryzen's pins are too close together to fit a card in between them and for the 90 degree flat pin I used a safety pin because the better ones are made of spring steel and the only way to get in between the substrate and the pin is with the sharp point of a sewing needle or safety pin (the safety pin has a built in handle unlike a sewing needle so it's easier to grip near the coil). I place the cpu upside down in a soft edge (plastic or rubber type insert grips) vise so it's secure but not so tight it gets damaged. Barely put the needle point past the pin in so it falls away while coming up thus keeping you from over-bending the pin the other direction like we see several times with the screw driver - as that weakens the pin going back and forth. As you rock the needle down below the edge of the cpu like a teeter totter at the nearest edge the pin comes up off the substrate. It's better to do just a little at a time to keep from going too far or breaking it off. Rock with the spring steel pin gives you power and leverage without too much force and only having the tip slightly in keeps you from over bending as well. Then you re-position and do it again just barely putting the needle past the pin so you are only moving the pin slightly with each rocking motion. I find I have much more precise control using the rocking method over free hand and thus I'm not constantly having to correct the pin from over bending like we see in this video - lessening the chance of breakage.
So i couple of tips i just learned from unbending the pins on My phenom X6 965. First look for and try to take care of the "obviously" bendy ones, seccond i'll assume Ryzen CPUs have more pins a there for a smaller gap betwen the pins, Jay from JayzTwoCents used a Razor for unbending the pins, that was far too small for my older CUP but i found out that a regular plastic guitar pick was perfect for the job, third if even after you took care of the most bendy pins, the CPU wont go in, that means that "all" pins are ever so slightly bended, but resist the urge to cry and you guitar pick to slowly crias cross the CPU opins, going line by line making sure that all pins are straight, after that it should gon right in. And That's it! Now you are free to cry from the stress and hopefully feel quite proud of your self. But the main thing is to be calm, it's not the end of the world as you may think it is, just take your time do it slowly and you can make it.
if i hadn't seen this video then i would have never been able to fix my proc, was planning to throw it in the bin but now its fixed, thanks man for the great content.
Not sure if my brand new 3600 came with few bent pins or my father somehow managed to bend them while putting the cpu in the slot, but I've managed to straighten them up with a sewing needle since these screwdrivers were just too big imo. Took me almost 2 hours to bend few pins back since i was nervous of breaking them off.
I remember two pins falling off my old Athlon XP 2600+ trying to straighten them. Just dropped the pins into the correct socket holes and applying more pressure on the CPU before locking it in. Always worked. Wonder if it would work on a more modern AMD CPU ? Can't see why not.
Use a craft knife (Stanley blade) you can bend the pins back inline with the rest as you work and they are so precise and you don’t use a lot of pressure to bend them so it’s nice and gentle
I've been perfecting the art of pin straightening thanks to starting my PC building endeavor on Athlon XP socket A chips. I've managed to snag an FX 6300 for $30 due to bent pins and it worked flawlessly after "repair". I used to use thin cards and ball point pen sockets
I like to use sowing pins for straightening out PGAs. The ones I have here fit perfectly between the bases of the bent pin and its unbent neighbour. I push it through for a couple of mms, then slowly raise the sowing pin from the substrate. Because the sowing pin is guided by multiple straight pins in the two rows alongside it, this will usually put the bent pin back about 80-90% to its original position, at most needing small adjustments to fit back into the socket.
How I accidentally bent my pins is my Ryzen 3 got stuck to my heatsink, I didn't use the right method to get it off (using a hair dryer and slowly pushing it off with a flathead screwdriver) and I just plopped it back on in the new motherboard I was swapping it into, and I bent a few pins, thanks for making this video, I'll try this method. Hopefully I can save myself time and money using this
bought a Ryzen 2700X with bent pins for $30 dollars, seller gave me a 16gb kit of Corsair Vengeance 2133mHz for $10, plus a 1300X for free last week. Best day ever.
Brian, I use a very thin knife blade, thereby sliding the blade in a whole row horizontally. It makes it easier to align and straighten with less chance of over bend
I use a Stanley razor blade across all pins - it creates a flush line to bend against - very good method. - There are also Pin Bending tools you can buy which work well as they go over the pin/ insert the pin so maximum Control as brian stated...
I believe this also relies on the state of the bent pins. I once bought a Z370 motherboard from what I thought was a good seller on EBay for a slightly lower price. I bought from him before and thought, "Well, since they took such care of the last item, I guess this one could not be as bad either :)" Only to find a motherboard with the protective lid at the bottom of the box and finding EVERY SINGLE PIN BENT! Like, I get it. Some pins can be bent back and I've done that before. But, the bent pins on that board had to literally require effort to bend in such a manner that it was non-repairable. Luckily, EBay Buyer Protection was the only way to get my money back where I called there customer service where EBay was actually nice enough to pay for shipping cost too to send it back. I could say I learned a lesson, but then again, this situation I was in was very strange and very bad that even EBay sided with me like, "Thats not normal!" literally over the customer phone line. Either way, amazing steady hand on those bent Ryzen CPUs. I personal use a razor blade along with a scalping blade too. I'm awful at already trying to bend pins, but AMD has always had the advantage of CPUs with pins instead of Intel with the motherboards having pins(I kinds prefer AMD on this). Liked the video, Mr. Tech YES Man. Edit: I recommend buying boards with CPUs already in them in case your wondering. To me, it's the safest way.
I had a max size Noctua cooler on an Intel and it bent 2 socket pins, and I made it worse removing the board. I couldn't rebend them. Turns out bent pins are not covered under warranty. I think you have a much better chance at fixing AMD.
I just fixed my son's cpu bent pins with a razor blade and sewing needle! Needle lifted the real bent ones nicely, then the razor to straighten out the rows, phew.. success.
If the cooler is kind of glued onto the CPU with thermal paste I usually do a twist slide without pulling at all. But that only works if there's enough free space on the motherboard next to the socket. And this is probably only a problem with fairly fresh paste and not old dried out stuff because fresh paste is kind of like a thick liquid and liquids get used in hydraulics, unlike air a liquid won't expand much at all in a vacuum which you're creating when pulling on the cooler. If there's only enough room to pull the cooler off then the safest way should be by slowly trying to tip it over on one side/corner so the paste can start breaking apart on the other side.
The tray can bend your pins if you put your cpu in wrong way. Happened to my 5800x. Used similar type of screwdriver to rebend the bins to it's original shape. It worked perfectly.
I recently had the same issue with a 2700x that someone put in the mainboard. Managed to bend a bunch back fully bent over. Found tweezers and a razor blade worked the best for me.
I think a better tool is a mechanical pencil with a metal tube for the lead. It slides right over the pins and then you just bend them back in place. Done!
great video, but it comes a bit to late for me. i did not know about the wiggle, so i pulled my cpu out the socket with bend pins as a result. did manage to bend them back and the system worked. only not like it should work giving me bluescreens for very weird reasons. RMA the cpu and no problems at all. will never know if it was caused by bending the pins.
Back in the mid-90's we used a soldering iron with a thin hollow tip on semi-low temp for bending back pins, the heat made them less prone to break and ruin the cpu. The tip was so small that it would fit around a pin.
Hey Bryan. Good work! I've used the same technique on an X58 motherboard that now works fine. I also tried it on Vga extension cable but the pins were so bent 1 broke off. So I cut a piece of jewelry wire about the same gauge and used that to make the last connection to my projector and it works fine! Remember to think outside of the box. Cheers, Mon from Brisbane
I use a razor blade as it will straighten up the bent pin until it hits the row of straight pins in the same row, its quick and painless and doesn't require really steady hands that trying to bend individual pins usually pretty difficult.
didn't want to wait for amd to send me a boot kit, so I bought a ryzen 3 1200 off ebay, lucky for me it arrived with bent pins and I got a full refund and was able to keep it. I enjoyed fixing those bent pins, getting something for free and making it work just feels so damn good.
A really easy way to solve cooler removal (Air and AIO pump) is to run the computer at stock clocks for 5 mins (desktop or dos) turn the PC off and remove the cooler immediately with care. The thermal paste is in a warm liquid state still. That now liquid bond won't grab on like cool thermal paste will. (no need to wiggle). This will avoid PGA pins getting bent and or the CPU come out with the cooler at all! Super safe and easy way to avoid what Tech Yes City went through with the 3900x. The 2700x's just how!? Who drops a CPU let alone 2 of them!? Especially when you get each one? Sounds a bit fishy to me. What do you guys think!?
@@techyescity holy hell! We'll that's just more than bad luck then. My heart would have literally stopped in that moment! Thank you very much for the feedback mate. Very appreciated.
This method is pretty much the same since socket 745. A credit card, a razor, a needle or a screwdriver of the right size. CPUs before that, like those for socket A, also had pins, but they were so thick, I never saw one bent or broken. It was my experience that on a socket 745 or 939 you could very easily pull the CPU out with the lock still on. I've never damaged any of those with that pull though, it always came straight out with all pins fine and you then had to use dental floss to remove the CPU stuck to the heatsink. Since I've been using better paste, it does not happen to me anymore. With the invention of efficient thermal pads like IC Graphite, this sticky problem is finally history :D
If a pin vreaks off, just simply take 0,5mm solder wire, put it in the socket exact hole location of the broken pin, cut it off a tiny bit above the surface of the socket so it has a decent touch to the broken spot where used to be a pin. Place cpu, cooler and you are good to go...
You can take long thin flat piece of metal (like razor for knife but not sharp) and put it for whole length of your CPU between pins and carefully just bend it straight directly to another pins in same line.
A way I did it was grab a razer blade, slide it down an "aisle" of the pins and make sure the razer slides all the way through, like swiping a debit card. then so gently wriggling pins back into place and lining them up, i then dropped it into the socket and i clicked it down, the socket will realign them completely, then youre green to go, i was lucky it was an outside pin.\ *ALSO* You could definitely try a debit or credit card too, maybe a license, but the blade is much slimmer and more precise... talking about this you could maybe try and exacto knife
my way to fix pins is to use these this tweezers I got for $1.99 at microcenter and I get the tweezers under the pins and pull up. this gets the pins 95% straight especially if they are bent over. I then use a I fix it flat blade to bend a pin straight to the row next to it. I then use alcohol an old tooth brush to clean thermal paste out of the pin (seems to be a growing trend) then I put it in the socket and lock it down, then take it back out, then lock it down then take it back out, then lock it back down, apply paste and a cooler for testing. I also have a led lit magnifying glass for inspection as it is super hard to see the pins as they are shiny and you really need good lighting.
I have now successfully recovered 2 working cpu's and one non working cpu (I'm still not sure why this 1700x I got doesnt work, I think the thermal paste might have shorted out)
Ive also found that when I do this sometimes I need to reset the cmos HARD, meaning no battery, no power cord, and jumper on the reset for 8 hours (1-2 hours seems to be the minimum for this to work). I had a used 2600 that would not boot and I thought I had lost $60 and then I tried this and BOOM, it booted!
Had multiple pin bends on my Old Phenom II, used an extremely thin Blade knife to straighten them out. Shaving razor might also work. They are even thinner..
razor blade works well. been using that for alot of pga cpus, you can also get plastic razor blazes if worried about scratching. on launch bent 2 pins on my 1700.
TIP: use whatever heat source to warm up the Cpu at about +60° C. This way you can recover even the absolute worst bent. Even if some pins brake off, the Cpu might work without them, as there are double or more of them doing the same thing. If you're really desperate, insert a copper wire into the socket, where the pin is missing from the Cpu.
Also another tip before removing the cooler on the amd, run a light stresstest, the thermal paste will be softer, and cooler will be easier to remove.
Ita a good idea to do this if you can. I get a TON of recycled computers and strip them down. I hate AMD CPUs because of how easily they get damaged. I just dont have the time or luxury to run stress tests on the stuff I get. Wish AMD would give up the PGA design and move to LGA.
I actually did this yesterday, not even a stress test but played borderlands 3 for several hours before taking my 3600 out for new 3900x, even with it definitely warmed up and breaking the paste CPU still stuck to cooler xD, and bent 5 pins, ran a razer blade down the rows of pins and BAM fixed
I just hit it a couple of minutes with a hair dryer, I partially cover the intake so it would get hot enough (around 115f /46c)
@@Brandon-uy1uv won't that risk some kind of short on your motherboard?
@@reyzafany1992 no, I only blow the heatsink, and cpu fans have diodes to limit the direction of current
Been fixing bent pins since the 486 days. Old mechanical pencil to bend the pins back and then use an old credit card to check for trueness from every direction on the rows themselves. Fixed hundreds of "dead" processors this way over the years. :)
Also a razor blade or exacto knife will work just fine for trueness and for bending if needed.
this worked for me! ty!
process actually starts at 4:00 for anyone here trying to just straighten their pins. Technique worked for me, thanks very much indeed.
Ryzen 2700x : no I don't want to
Screwdriver : cmon just the tip
A man of culture indeed
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For most bend pins, i use a sewing needle, it fits between the pins, and a few times in both directions, and the pins are straight again. Quick and easy tip.
I use the same (and a cheap digital microscope, being able to zoom in gives a lot more control over the bending action)
I just did the same yesterday night on a Ryzen 5900x, thought it would be hard, but it's very easy as the pins are very manipulable, that's why they bend so easily too. After that, I use flat object to pas between them to fix all alignments around affected area.
Pro tip, use a razor blade and put it on the other side as a brace as your bending it with the needle so you wont overbend.
If you are having a hard time in putting them in, just position the cpu parallel to you eyes to easily tell if they're still bent a bit
A credit card is really great to get the rows to line up. They fit perfect between the pins and move a whole row at once, really good for that final touch and get them perfect. Also the pins fit inside the tip of a mechanical pencil with no lead good 360 control if your careful. Love the TYC!
Ayy I ended up fixing some Ryzen 3s and I got them for over half off. I just used a razor and tweezers and they ran just fine!
I did the same thing with my fx 6300
a stanley blade works too
Verge's tweezers ? 😏
thats the tech yes magic, buy cheap + tech yes loving = profit?
Yes razors work well!
I've been down this road, things I've learned. Do not use the pre-applied paste on AMD supplied coolers, wipe it off and apply something else. It can be like super glue hard to remove, I had room to twist and pull, made no difference, it wasn't moving. Ended up bending many pins on my R 2600 as it came out of the socket with the cooler. Bent most of them back, but 4 broke off completely after trying to straighten. Thought I was screwed, looked for CPU pin wiring diagrams (no luck there), decided to reinstall and give it a go, works perfect, even with 4 broken pins. Used a magnifying glass and if you have the right size mechanical pencil, use the empty tip. And nice work with that screwdriver! When you get older and lose your eyesight that becomes much more difficult.
As for a final check for straightness, I slide a thin credit card down the row to make sure all the pins line up. Worked great on Phenom II and FX processors, haven't had to yet on Ryzen
It's a common thing, I don't know why Yes Man didn't want to show it, as I'm sure it knew that.
@@TheSilviu8x Because a card isn't going to work on the spacing on Ryzen processors.
@@konkoly5183 You can use a playing card or a trading card like Pokemon though.
My friend smacked his ryzen 3 1200 into his case while removing it from the cooler. He bent over half the pins. After 3 hours of work I was able to get them all back and only lost 2 pins. CPU still works perfectly fine to today. And if you are wondering why I wasted time with a 1200, I did it to help my friend and I did it to have some fun.
Rather cheap CPU, though.
Missing pins should have some sort of problem..... eh probably just a slught framerste loss or some slowness with certain things
Hi. After several months the processor works well?
@@gedimangediman still works to this day, overclocked to 4.3ghz as well
@@denakai Thanks
Great video! Two of my friends dropped their brand new Ryzen 5 3600's so I had to fix both of them.
There is 2 linuses now?
@@konari88 They're evolving
I hate when the CPU gets stuck to the Ryzen stock cooler (Wraith Prism) and CPU is removed from the socket along with the cooler... I wish the retention mechanism on AM4 was better. With Noctua coolers, it works perfectly well.
Looks like a made up story starting with "my friends"
@@dinkthesink3890 www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/e0mx06/fixed_my_friends_ryzen_5_3600/
I like using a mechanical pencil tip to bend pins back in place
Take the lead out? And then hook it over the bent pin. That sounds kinda brilliant. Thanks man!
This is a genius idea
Same, was taught this by friends years ago. no better way honestly!
YEs, this is how I've always done it. Because the mechanical pencil is long, its much easier to quickly get the pin almost perfectly vertical too.
Yeah, this is how we did it back in the day. I've straightened many a pin in this manner. A credit card can help with this too.
You do a really good job of making the viewer feel included and like I'm taking the journey with you in all your videos. When you do the used parts hunts and say things like "let's see if they take OUR offer" or "hopefully they like OUR bid and call US back" I always find myself feeling like I do when I'm actually in that spot and hoping they call you back lol. I love it. 🍻🍻🍻
He just played you like a second-hand fiddle 🤦♂️
@@DraftySatyr if you read what I wrote, i know exactly what he's doing, why, how it's worded and i appreciate it. I work for a production group lol. The vlog, no story, 1000 cut and low production youtube has run its course. I like a story, journey, inclusion and being brought along. If you don't then that's on you not me lol.
Just tried this method to sort out half a dozen bent pins on a r5 1600 - it took a bit of patience but it worked! I began wondering as I was going through the motions if a straight razor might have been more efficient for lining up bent pins to the other pins in the row. Good stuff all the same and thanks for showing me it can be done (with a little tech yes loving)
This is too brutal, razor blade between rows, gently passing few times, that way you dont bend the other way, just up
exactly how i fixed mine
I used a box cutter's blade to bend mine back. It worked absolutely fine and the CPU works fine
Same best way
i was having a panic attack when i dropped my 3600 in my case after chaning stock fan i used a sewing needle. At first it would go in but there was a still a bent pin or 2 i straightned them more and the noticed it was wobblying on the pcb, i then just pushed it in hard and it virtually clicked and thank god it worked the most sweatiest heart racing adrenline shakey experince of my life. i was there trying to rebend pins shaking like mad.
@@MrAndyPee nightmare 😂 lol
Absolutely saved me.
Tried installing my new processor only to drop it as I took it out of the box, bent an entire row of pins.
I was sure my goose was cooked - thanks to your helpful guide and two hours or careful CPU surgery I'm proud to say I fully fixed my CPU!
Slotted in nicely and posted fine, I've been running benchmarks on it all day and it's going strong, even overclocked with no issues!
I got my R5 2600 pins bent before removing the MB from the case. Bent the pins by removing the Cooler. Realigned the pins with a 1mm pin needle.
It booted. I had this confidence of doing this because of you.
More power to ya Sir!
This brings back some memories. Worked at a job where a guy knocked a bunch of P4's off a workbench and I had to bend them all back. I used the same method back then. Tiny jewelers flat head. Excellent video man. Too many people think if they even get bent slightly, the CPU's done.
Bryan, these are the exact sorts of videos I come to your channel for. I learn something, enjoy watching, and appreciate the company. You're doing great work for the community. Thank you.
Tech yes City is a gaming PC legend 😂
I wanted to change my thermal paste and ended up ripping the cpu right from the socket with a few bent pins. I used your method to straighten out the pins and lucky for me, the cpu and mobo was still good. Thanks a bunch!
I had the same nightmare with my 3900x (stuck to the stock cooler), got lucky and only had to bend 2 pins back. I used a few different knife blades and flat blade screw drivers, since it's nice and easy to get between the rows while stiff enough to apply pressure with. Once you get the pins straight enough to drop in the socket takes care of the rest, hardest part is keeping your hands steady when the cost of replacement and lack of availability is hanging over your head
@Tech YES City
there is the credit card method to straighten the pins as you can line up the pins straight and let the socket straighten the pins further. We use this method when I was working for companies that were building PCs.
I was 250 miles away from home fixing a computer for a family member who had bent the pins. It was an old 8350 FX. I ended up using a real thin plastic card and to be honest with you I didn't think I could do it. It works big :-)
I tried to fix a pin on my 5600x, that i dropped when i got it (on a table). I used a tool from my ifixit kit, it worked, but it was a bit hard to put it in the socket. Today when i was trubleshooting my pc, i tried to make the pin straighter, which ended up bending more pins. Your video saved me.
Massive thanks for this, had a ben pin on a 5900X, and following this guide has got it happily back into the AM4 board without any sticking, just dropped in.
I had a Phenom II 555 BE, It had several pins broken off and some bent. I straightened the pin using some solid but thin tweezers. What I did was passed the two tweezers hands around some 8-10 pins on the x-axis and then repeated on the y-axis. Worked like a charm. I used this CPU unlocked to X4 B55 for 3 or 4 years. The broken pins were either blank or extra ground pins. Amd is smart enough to put less important pins, the ground ones and server use only pins on the outer rim of the cpu.
That's my experience.
If you want I could even send you the Phenom for inspection.
Best method is to use a mechanical pencil with a long metal lead tube tip, remove lead, put the pin in the tip, and use the whole pencil to slowly bend the pin back. Been doing this since the athlon/phenom days. In fact I have a pentel drafting pencil I keep around specifically for cpu pins.
They said they "Linus" them 😂😂
CPUs are much tougher than people give credit for. Bending pins back shouldn't be a problem. This is a good method, thanks Bryan.
I've straightened many a bent pin and even soldered a few, luckily they were on the edge so it wasn't too difficult. I use a credit card to check alignment after straightening them.
I used plastic cards as well. Their great for alignment good tip !
The tool sets they sell to open mobile phones are perfect, including the 'guitar pick' style tool. Or just use a guitar pick to check alignment.
Done this myself when selling my old R3 1200. It had a few bent pins from not handling it carefully. It's hard to make them out with the naked eye, even under a lamp, but after a few minutes I was able to put them all back. I used a small switchblade (it was think enough to fit between the pins) and a small screwdriver.
I like using a razor blade or a cutter blade, the razor blade is just slightly stiffer than the pins so I find them easier to use
I bent the pins on my old ryzen cpu the exact same way.
Cooler took the cpu with it and I dropped it not even knowing the cpu was still attached. Luckily it was only 2-3 pins on the side.
My heart feels like it's going to explode this is practically live brain surgery
Required - 20/20 vision beside screwdriver.
Just got a 5800x dirt cheap has about 4-5 slight bent pins. This video makes me feel better about trying to fix it. Ordered a powered magnifying glass and some super small tools. wish me luck.
I was taking off an Asetek AIO on my 5800X and it ripped the CPU out of the socket and bent the pins. It was the most stressful 5 minutes of my life but this video saved my life and $440
I've made your mistake on the 3900x twice now... My heart stopped. I warmed it up with a stress test, did the jiggle(may have been a mistake in the end) and it still came out with my Noctua D15, 3 corner pins bent out the gate. Then after managing to get it off the cooler with a hair drier twisting it I drop it inside my case bending the opposite corner. 30 minutes of bending with a sewing needle until it sat flush... with a tap at the end. All good so far.
I can't wait for AMD to switch, AM4 is held in by a garbage slide mechanism relying on friction. Well now the pins are thin with less surface area and shiny gold plated copper to begin with, I can't change the cooler without risking pulling it out of the socket. The cooler and processor are one now as far as I'm concerned.
Just an hour ago when i came home, i opened my CPU box to check out my brand new CPU that arrived 2 days ago. I noticed that a few pins bent, because yesterday i put the CPU in the plastic cover the wrong way, and i didn't notice it yesterday. Luckily, a relative of mine gave me a box of that exact same screwdriver kit, because i told him i'm building a new PC, and that i needed small and big screwdrivers for it. So i got lucky this time, i'll be building the pc in 3 days, that's when the GPU will arrive. Let's hope all the touching i did won't do anything to the PC, and that the CPU will work fine.
I never leave comments, but this legit saved me like £200. Thanks man.
Saved a RYZEN 1200 that I got for $40 with the cooler. I used the same technique. This is not the first time I have fixed a CPU with this method either. Patience Patience Patience!!!
TYC always love the content m8 :)
_As an anecdote._
When I was ready to change the Wraith Prism for an AIO, I didn't use my PC for 2 days (so imagine the thermal paste ...), when I was about to remove the Prism I remembered the method of turning it a little bit and suddenly ... The Prism comes out with my 2700x attached to it ... I think it's one of the 5 times I have been most scared in my tech life, so after a bit of movement I can take it off and observe the worst, like 10 bent pins. So with a needle I prepared to bend them (it is not my first time, since I do it regularly with LGA but it was my first time with PGA), after about 20-25min and with tears in my eyes, for me surprise my 2700x still works without any problem
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In summary or TL; DR: do a CPU test to leave the CPU / paste / Cooler warm, be careful -with this bitch- Wraith Prism (or the little brothers for that matter) and if you have a bent pin or pins BE PATIENT because if they are not broken, they can still be repaired/bend back.
Great video.
I have done this before, just need good hands, good eyes & lots of patience. The hardest fix I did was a B250 Motherboard that someone dropped a CPU on the Socket & bent several Pins over. I managed to fix it with a Small Flat Head Screw Driver & an Exacto Knife with the tip bent in a very small hook shape.
Also, if that case of the CPU still doesn't go in at one corner despite you tried your best to bend the pins straight, sometimes instead of inspecting it all over again, trying to (very, very gently) fit that corner into the socket first will get it to fit in, and you just tighten the socket to completely bend the pin back
Me with my all bent pin master piece
I bought an open box CPU (used warehouse deals) that was about $100 off, but failed to mention bent pins, but it had three or four bent with one bent severely down at 90 degrees. I thought about sending it back, but then decided to give it a try.
In the old days we used credit cards, but the Ryzen's pins are too close together to fit a card in between them and for the 90 degree flat pin I used a safety pin because the better ones are made of spring steel and the only way to get in between the substrate and the pin is with the sharp point of a sewing needle or safety pin (the safety pin has a built in handle unlike a sewing needle so it's easier to grip near the coil). I place the cpu upside down in a soft edge (plastic or rubber type insert grips) vise so it's secure but not so tight it gets damaged.
Barely put the needle point past the pin in so it falls away while coming up thus keeping you from over-bending the pin the other direction like we see several times with the screw driver - as that weakens the pin going back and forth. As you rock the needle down below the edge of the cpu like a teeter totter at the nearest edge the pin comes up off the substrate. It's better to do just a little at a time to keep from going too far or breaking it off. Rock with the spring steel pin gives you power and leverage without too much force and only having the tip slightly in keeps you from over bending as well. Then you re-position and do it again just barely putting the needle past the pin so you are only moving the pin slightly with each rocking motion. I find I have much more precise control using the rocking method over free hand and thus I'm not constantly having to correct the pin from over bending like we see in this video - lessening the chance of breakage.
I used to use a mechanical pencil with the same diameter as the pins and would bend them back to normal. This has worked well.
Always enjoy your videos as they are so differernt than the other tech videos.
So i couple of tips i just learned from unbending the pins on My phenom X6 965. First look for and try to take care of the "obviously" bendy ones, seccond i'll assume Ryzen CPUs have more pins a there for a smaller gap betwen the pins, Jay from JayzTwoCents used a Razor for unbending the pins, that was far too small for my older CUP but i found out that a regular plastic guitar pick was perfect for the job, third if even after you took care of the most bendy pins, the CPU wont go in, that means that "all" pins are ever so slightly bended, but resist the urge to cry and you guitar pick to slowly crias cross the CPU opins, going line by line making sure that all pins are straight, after that it should gon right in. And That's it! Now you are free to cry from the stress and hopefully feel quite proud of your self. But the main thing is to be calm, it's not the end of the world as you may think it is, just take your time do it slowly and you can make it.
Been using PCI slot covers to straiten out pins for years, they are the exact thickness of the spacing between the pins
i used a sewing needle for my buddies bent athron 64 cpu, and suprisingly is full proof as ive done it multiple times after!
if i hadn't seen this video then i would have never been able to fix my proc, was planning to throw it in the bin but now its fixed, thanks man for the great content.
Using a knife works well.Especially helps avoid bending the pins too far, as the surrounding pins will stop the knife
Done this many times. I use a Stanley blade because I feel there is less chance of slipping and damaging other pins. Worked every time.
I just fixed a Phenom X4 9850 with many bent pins today, i got it working and is currently in my Windows 7 PC.
Not sure if my brand new 3600 came with few bent pins or my father somehow managed to bend them while putting the cpu in the slot, but I've managed to straighten them up with a sewing needle since these screwdrivers were just too big imo. Took me almost 2 hours to bend few pins back since i was nervous of breaking them off.
I remember two pins falling off my old Athlon XP 2600+ trying to straighten them. Just dropped the pins into the correct socket holes and applying more pressure on the CPU before locking it in. Always worked.
Wonder if it would work on a more modern AMD CPU ?
Can't see why not.
mechanical pencil works wonders too if u put the pin in where the lead comes out u get great control dad fixed my amd cpu that i bent pins on somehow
Use a craft knife (Stanley blade) you can bend the pins back inline with the rest as you work and they are so precise and you don’t use a lot of pressure to bend them so it’s nice and gentle
I've been perfecting the art of pin straightening thanks to starting my PC building endeavor on Athlon XP socket A chips. I've managed to snag an FX 6300 for $30 due to bent pins and it worked flawlessly after "repair". I used to use thin cards and ball point pen sockets
I had Athlon II X4 640 for $3, using mechanical pencil + credit card. Work perfect!
I like to use sowing pins for straightening out PGAs. The ones I have here fit perfectly between the bases of the bent pin and its unbent neighbour. I push it through for a couple of mms, then slowly raise the sowing pin from the substrate. Because the sowing pin is guided by multiple straight pins in the two rows alongside it, this will usually put the bent pin back about 80-90% to its original position, at most needing small adjustments to fit back into the socket.
At 6:24 it said one pin went off, but you never went into it after that. Seems like it still worked fine?
How I accidentally bent my pins is my Ryzen 3 got stuck to my heatsink, I didn't use the right method to get it off (using a hair dryer and slowly pushing it off with a flathead screwdriver) and I just plopped it back on in the new motherboard I was swapping it into, and I bent a few pins, thanks for making this video, I'll try this method. Hopefully I can save myself time and money using this
bought a Ryzen 2700X with bent pins for $30 dollars, seller gave me a 16gb kit of Corsair Vengeance 2133mHz for $10, plus a 1300X for free last week. Best day ever.
Can you put me in contact with that seller? Id kill for that deal LOL
2700X still working fine?
Brian, I use a very thin knife blade, thereby sliding the blade in a whole row horizontally. It makes it easier to align and straighten with less chance of over bend
I use a Stanley razor blade across all pins - it creates a flush line to bend against - very good method. - There are also Pin Bending tools you can buy which work well as they go over the pin/ insert the pin so maximum Control as brian stated...
Thanks so much for this video, i managed to bend the pins on my 5600x and was able to get them bent back into shape and working.
I believe this also relies on the state of the bent pins. I once bought a Z370 motherboard from what I thought was a good seller on EBay for a slightly lower price. I bought from him before and thought, "Well, since they took such care of the last item, I guess this one could not be as bad either :)" Only to find a motherboard with the protective lid at the bottom of the box and finding EVERY SINGLE PIN BENT! Like, I get it. Some pins can be bent back and I've done that before. But, the bent pins on that board had to literally require effort to bend in such a manner that it was non-repairable. Luckily, EBay Buyer Protection was the only way to get my money back where I called there customer service where EBay was actually nice enough to pay for shipping cost too to send it back. I could say I learned a lesson, but then again, this situation I was in was very strange and very bad that even EBay sided with me like, "Thats not normal!" literally over the customer phone line.
Either way, amazing steady hand on those bent Ryzen CPUs. I personal use a razor blade along with a scalping blade too. I'm awful at already trying to bend pins, but AMD has always had the advantage of CPUs with pins instead of Intel with the motherboards having pins(I kinds prefer AMD on this).
Liked the video, Mr. Tech YES Man.
Edit: I recommend buying boards with CPUs already in them in case your wondering. To me, it's the safest way.
I had a max size Noctua cooler on an Intel and it bent 2 socket pins, and I made it worse removing the board. I couldn't rebend them. Turns out bent pins are not covered under warranty. I think you have a much better chance at fixing AMD.
I just fixed my son's cpu bent pins with a razor blade and sewing needle! Needle lifted the real bent ones nicely, then the razor to straighten out the rows, phew.. success.
If the cooler is kind of glued onto the CPU with thermal paste I usually do a twist slide without pulling at all. But that only works if there's enough free space on the motherboard next to the socket.
And this is probably only a problem with fairly fresh paste and not old dried out stuff because fresh paste is kind of like a thick liquid and liquids get used in hydraulics, unlike air a liquid won't expand much at all in a vacuum which you're creating when pulling on the cooler. If there's only enough room to pull the cooler off then the safest way should be by slowly trying to tip it over on one side/corner so the paste can start breaking apart on the other side.
The tray can bend your pins if you put your cpu in wrong way. Happened to my 5800x. Used similar type of screwdriver to rebend the bins to it's original shape. It worked perfectly.
Did you have it rotated the wrong way in the clamshell or upside down?
Never thought it was possible to bend back cpu pins back good video
I recently had the same issue with a 2700x that someone put in the mainboard. Managed to bend a bunch back fully bent over. Found tweezers and a razor blade worked the best for me.
I think a better tool is a mechanical pencil with a metal tube for the lead. It slides right over the pins and then you just bend them back in place. Done!
great video, but it comes a bit to late for me. i did not know about the wiggle, so i pulled my cpu out the socket with bend pins as a result. did manage to bend them back and the system worked. only not like it should work giving me bluescreens for very weird reasons. RMA the cpu and no problems at all. will never know if it was caused by bending the pins.
Back in the mid-90's we used a soldering iron with a thin hollow tip on semi-low temp for bending back pins, the heat made them less prone to break and ruin the cpu. The tip was so small that it would fit around a pin.
Hey Bryan.
Good work!
I've used the same technique on an X58 motherboard that now works fine.
I also tried it on Vga extension cable but the pins were so bent 1 broke off. So I cut a piece of jewelry wire about the same gauge and used that to make the last connection to my projector and it works fine!
Remember to think outside of the box.
Cheers, Mon from Brisbane
I use a razor blade as it will straighten up the bent pin until it hits the row of straight pins in the same row, its quick and painless and doesn't require really steady hands that trying to bend individual pins usually pretty difficult.
didn't want to wait for amd to send me a boot kit, so I bought a ryzen 3 1200 off ebay, lucky for me it arrived with bent pins and I got a full refund and was able to keep it. I enjoyed fixing those bent pins, getting something for free and making it work just feels so damn good.
I like using an xacto knife. Makes it easy to run it thru the rows as well to verify
This video helped me when I discovered three pins on my 5950x, on the outer side of the processor, was bent
A really easy way to solve cooler removal (Air and AIO pump) is to run the computer at stock clocks for 5 mins (desktop or dos) turn the PC off and remove the cooler immediately with care.
The thermal paste is in a warm liquid state still. That now liquid bond won't grab on like cool thermal paste will. (no need to wiggle). This will avoid PGA pins getting bent and or the CPU come out with the cooler at all!
Super safe and easy way to avoid what Tech Yes City went through with the 3900x.
The 2700x's just how!? Who drops a CPU let alone 2 of them!?
Especially when you get each one?
Sounds a bit fishy to me.
What do you guys think!?
CPU Tray lost the CPUs when they were handling them.
@@techyescity holy hell! We'll that's just more than bad luck then.
My heart would have literally stopped in that moment!
Thank you very much for the feedback mate.
Very appreciated.
I recall I dropped a Phenom II X2 some years back. Used a knife blade down the aisle between the rows of pins to slowly lever them back straight.
This method is pretty much the same since socket 745. A credit card, a razor, a needle or a screwdriver of the right size. CPUs before that, like those for socket A, also had pins, but they were so thick, I never saw one bent or broken. It was my experience that on a socket 745 or 939 you could very easily pull the CPU out with the lock still on. I've never damaged any of those with that pull though, it always came straight out with all pins fine and you then had to use dental floss to remove the CPU stuck to the heatsink. Since I've been using better paste, it does not happen to me anymore. With the invention of efficient thermal pads like IC Graphite, this sticky problem is finally history :D
Success. Thanks for the advice! Headlamp and soldering stand with magnifier made the process easier for me.
If a pin vreaks off, just simply take 0,5mm solder wire, put it in the socket exact hole location of the broken pin, cut it off a tiny bit above the surface of the socket so it has a decent touch to the broken spot where used to be a pin.
Place cpu, cooler and you are good to go...
You can take long thin flat piece of metal (like razor for knife but not sharp) and put it for whole length of your CPU between pins and carefully just bend it straight directly to another pins in same line.
A way I did it was grab a razer blade, slide it down an "aisle" of the pins and make sure the razer slides all the way through, like swiping a debit card. then so gently wriggling pins back into place and lining them up, i then dropped it into the socket and i clicked it down, the socket will realign them completely, then youre green to go, i was lucky it was an outside pin.\
*ALSO*
You could definitely try a debit or credit card too, maybe a license, but the blade is much slimmer and more precise... talking about this you could maybe try and exacto knife
I love the bending music!
Surprised you aren't using a .5/.7 Mechanical Pencil to straighten the pins out as well, they've worked well for me
my way to fix pins is to use these this tweezers I got for $1.99 at microcenter and I get the tweezers under the pins and pull up. this gets the pins 95% straight especially if they are bent over. I then use a I fix it flat blade to bend a pin straight to the row next to it. I then use alcohol an old tooth brush to clean thermal paste out of the pin (seems to be a growing trend) then I put it in the socket and lock it down, then take it back out, then lock it down then take it back out, then lock it back down, apply paste and a cooler for testing. I also have a led lit magnifying glass for inspection as it is super hard to see the pins as they are shiny and you really need good lighting.
I have now successfully recovered 2 working cpu's and one non working cpu (I'm still not sure why this 1700x I got doesnt work, I think the thermal paste might have shorted out)
Ive also found that when I do this sometimes I need to reset the cmos HARD, meaning no battery, no power cord, and jumper on the reset for 8 hours (1-2 hours seems to be the minimum for this to work). I had a used 2600 that would not boot and I thought I had lost $60 and then I tried this and BOOM, it booted!
A box cutter blade is good for lining them up in their rows also, as a final tweak.
Had multiple pin bends on my Old Phenom II, used an extremely thin Blade knife to straighten them out. Shaving razor might also work. They are even thinner..
AMD plz mpve to the LGA layout eventually, you already have with Threadripper, plz do it with mainstream, those pins are frustrating to fix.
razor blade works well. been using that for alot of pga cpus, you can also get plastic razor blazes if worried about scratching.
on launch bent 2 pins on my 1700.
"I wish I were a mad man, so maybe......* Bring it back!
TIP: use whatever heat source to warm up the Cpu at about +60° C.
This way you can recover even the absolute worst bent.
Even if some pins brake off, the Cpu might work without them, as there are double or more of them doing the same thing.
If you're really desperate, insert a copper wire into the socket, where the pin is missing from the Cpu.
Great tip to do the wiggle when removing cooler.
Also run a stress test to loosen up the thermal paste
Dont even need a stress test, just turn it on for 10 min
@@rdmz135 bit like a hot engine before changing oil!