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if you bend them back straight enough, and insert it gently the socket will realign it the rest of the way for you. you want to be very very gentle. tweezers are WAY too big in my opinion. a needle or very fine flat screwdriver may work. in the past I have used a .7 mechanical pencil with the led retracted. the hole in the tip is just the right size for the pin, its plastic, supports most of the pin, and you can gently reallign it.

if there are a lot if pins messed up your chances of success obviously go down. I completely disagree on the RMA. the warranty is for manufacturing defects. not for destroying a CPU because of user error.
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If the pins are on the edge they might just be ground pins and would matter too much if they broke off but you can try to take tweezers and slowly and carefully bend them back but if they are bent almost at a 90 degree angle it's not worth trying to bend them back as they will almost always break
 
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I bought it off of (Edit) Ncix.com like 2 weeks ago, only installing it now because all of my parts finally came in.I don't think it's bent that badly, i haven't seen it yet but will the cpu still work if i do bend them back to mostly straight? And would this probably be the issue we've been having with the build, when we turn on my pc there are no boot sounds or display showing up ( Tried this prior to finding out the pins got bent and that was the result)
 
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Yeah it seems like that was the problem and bending them back without breaking them will make it functional again (Just make sure you don't shock the cpu with your hands!)
 
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Sorry, how can i avoid shocking the cpu? Wear rubber gloves? I'm new to this, this is my first build, hence my friend putting it together for me. He's done like 6 or 7 so i thought he could handle this.
 
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if you bend them back straight enough, and insert it gently the socket will realign it the rest of the way for you. you want to be very very gentle. tweezers are WAY too big in my opinion. a needle or very fine flat screwdriver may work. in the past I have used a .7 mechanical pencil with the led retracted. the hole in the tip is just the right size for the pin, its plastic, supports most of the pin, and you can gently reallign it.

if there are a lot if pins messed up your chances of success obviously go down. I completely disagree on the RMA. the warranty is for manufacturing defects. not for destroying a CPU because of user error.
 
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all you have to do is touch some metal before handling internal components to ground yourself
 
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static electricity could fry it if you are not grounded just like any PC component. you should never directly touch contacts or pins. you touch the case to ground yourself but this is why I say the plastic mechanical pencil or a screwdriver (plastic handle like all of them) is a could choice. no electrical conduction
 
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well... probably. but. its an unnecessary pain. when installing PC components touch the plugged in chassis to ground yourself out and don't directly touch pins or contacts. there is zero reason to touch pins or contacts. zero reason for rubber gloves.

 
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