Bent ~ 15 cpu pins trying to remove the heatsink. Replacing CPU + motherboard (depends on recommendation)

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Jason_76

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just bent around 15 pins of my FX-6100 trying to remove the heatsink to renew the thermal paste.
long story short, needs to either get a new processor to replace it. or tempted to replace motherboard + processor. recommendations?
budget is around 450$ US$

specs : 16 GB DDR3 1600MHZ
128 GB SSD
Z0tac 7970 GTx Geoforce
 
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no the 9k series is terrible and the 8350 is really only good if you have very specific tasks on a very specific budget (not gaming). a i5 kills both of those. and some cpus do have redundant grounding pins so your cpu could possible still be good
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It's really difficult to straighten CPU pins but worth a try, try to find a small tube that's a snug fit and bend very carefully using that. I have a fine gauge wire wrapping tool I use. Worst case they get broken and it's really toast.

Cheapest option is probably just replace the CPU but if the motherboard is ok you could sell it and buy a combo as suggested. An i5 is hard to beat if you can afford one.

When removing stubborn heatsinks you can sometimes leave the CPU in the socket and twist the heatsink off, depending on the design of course. Sometimes though you are forced to remove the CPU and heatsink together and then carefully prise them apart assuming you can get at the CPU release lever in the first place. Personally I stick to regular old heatsink paste and it never sets that hard on me.
 
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no the 9k series is terrible and the 8350 is really only good if you have very specific tasks on a very specific budget (not gaming). a i5 kills both of those. and some cpus do have redundant grounding pins so your cpu could possible still be good
 
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why are you suggesting the i5 if i may ask and not the i7?
what are the higher end ones too? in the 300-450 $$$ range
 
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im assuming the build will be used mostly for gaming? many games will only use a few cores/threads of a cpu. the cored on the i5 are the same speed as the i7 so all applications that use less than 4 cores/threads will have no benefit running on a i7
 
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