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- Jun 15, 2011
I just received my brand new 3900X CPU today. I've been waiting weeks for the store to get it in stock, so I was quite excited. Now, I took real care to handle the CPU gently during installation, but I noticed that it wouldn't fall into place in the socket as it should. After examination, I see that one of the outermost pins are bent. If it had been due to rough handling by me (which it wasn't), I would expect more of the pins nearby to be bent too. So I firmly believe that it was factory-bent. Not too eager to wait for the RMA process, I gently bent it back with a scalpel blade. After un-bending, the CPU fell into the socket as it should. I haven't tested it yet as I'm waiting for my RAM to be delivered tomorrow, but should I worry about this? As long as the pin is intact, things should be ok...right?
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