LGA 1150 Pin snapped off, could it still work?

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RoBoSkullz

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Bought a broken LGA 1150 board off of eBay (Asus Z87 Gryphon) for £4 recently. The description of the item was quite vague, just saying that the previous owner accidentally broke it whilst changing their CPU cooler. I bought it hoping that the pin would only be bent, but it has completely snapped off. It came to my mind that Intel make data sheets for their CPU sockets to show you what pins do what. I identified the pin that was broken (J6 according to the data sheet), and according to Intel, pin J6 is a VSS pin. Doing a little bit extra research, I've discovered that this is a ground pin, and apparently not such a big deal. I can't test the board, as I don't have any socket 1150 CPUs, this board being a sort of an impulse buy. My question is, would it be worth it buying a Celeron G1820, at a price of £25 to test it? I know most would say that it's my choice, but I want to know what the odds would be on the board working fine. The board's BIOS flashback works fine, I managed to get it onto the latest BIOS without issues. If anyone has gambled on boards like this before, could you tell me how it ended up for you? Thanks.
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Attached is a picture of the board (Yes I know the USB3 header is damaged by some idiot), and the LGA socket.
 
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geofelt

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I might think you could run without the pin; not all are necessary .
But, the seller obviously did not have a working motherboard so I suspect it is truly bad.

If the board tested out good, what would you do with it?
If you are planning on a build using a lga1150 motherboard, then I suggest you buy the cpu you would be planning on using.
If it failed, you are out only £4 and you could buy a working lga1150 motherboard.

You will have the option to send it to asus for socket repair.
It cost me $50 to do this for a gigabyte motherboard.
 
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RoBoSkullz

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I have thought about this. First of all, the description of the item was vague, but it did say they damaged the pin installing the CPU cooler. If I didn't know that some pins were irrelevant (there's actually loads who don't) I'd just trash the board without even testing it, hoping not to damage the CPU. I'm just kind of hoping this is the situtation.

I already have a 6700k system that runs flawlessly, so if I could get it working, I would just use it to replace my secondary FX 8150 system. The CPU and board combined would sell enough to buy maybe a 4670k, and from there I would just mess about with it. Maybe occasionally host servers with it, use as a backup incase my main system has a problem. Also, when I upgrade the AMD HD 7950 that I currently have, it would make a nice secondary gaming system, to take to LAN parties and loan to friends, etc. Bottom line is I'm not too fussed if it doesn't work, so I think that I might just buy a cheap celeron to test it.
 
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