Hello! It's my first time building and it seems I've bent 3 CPU pins on my Ryzen 1600. I then panicked and I'm pretty sure I bent some of the soldered things on the back of my Asus Strix B350-F motherboard as well (not the socket). I don't actually know for sure if I bent the pins, but I can't imagine it being anything else so I assume RMA'ing to Amazon UK is out of the question.
1. For the 3 adjacent bent CPU Pins, googling seems to suggest methods involving credit cards, toothpicks, mechanical pencils, tweezers, etc. What method is easiest and most effective? I'm honestly worried that I'm just going to make things worse.
2. None of the bent motherboard solders seem to be touching anything else. Is this actually not a problem?
3. I was using the motherboard box as the assembling area. Is it actually safer to build in the case on top of the standoffs to avoid messing with the back of the motherboard?
I included some pictures below. Sorry that I don't have anything that can take better pictures.
Thanks in advance.
1. For the 3 adjacent bent CPU Pins, googling seems to suggest methods involving credit cards, toothpicks, mechanical pencils, tweezers, etc. What method is easiest and most effective? I'm honestly worried that I'm just going to make things worse.
2. None of the bent motherboard solders seem to be touching anything else. Is this actually not a problem?
3. I was using the motherboard box as the assembling area. Is it actually safer to build in the case on top of the standoffs to avoid messing with the back of the motherboard?
I included some pictures below. Sorry that I don't have anything that can take better pictures.
Thanks in advance.
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