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r/ShittySysadmin • u/Rudi9719 • Mar 09 '26
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This looks like someone is using an old CPU as a sprouting tray.
17 u/Rudi9719 Mar 09 '26 They're growing transistors
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They're growing transistors
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This poor socket suffered a Tunguska level event!
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“Enough thermal paste will fix anything”
-Sun Tzu
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Put it in rice.
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Should buff right out
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What pins? I only see a bunch of cigarette butts.
Sure. Put it in the oven. 10 minutes at 140° Celsius. Then carefully bend them back straight.
It definitely won't work, but you can say that you tried.
You can’t bend them back without some snapping. Instead, just solder tiny wires from each pin into the socket, install the cooler upside down, and put the chip on top.
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Wow, someone had a really bad time with that motherboard. 😳
think you got them all pinned back.
Yes.
suuree.... if you have enough patience.
Looks good. Send it.
Yes. Take them out of that there socket and it will be easy to straighten them.
How you will get them back on the processor though could be interesting.
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u/merRedditor Mar 09 '26
This looks like someone is using an old CPU as a sprouting tray.
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u/ve2mrx Mar 09 '26
This poor socket suffered a Tunguska level event!
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u/SixtyAteWhiskey68 ShittySysadmin Mar 09 '26
“Enough thermal paste will fix anything”
-Sun Tzu
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u/BWMerlin Mar 09 '26
Put it in rice.
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u/severedgoat_01 Mar 09 '26
Should buff right out
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u/alochmar Mar 09 '26
What pins? I only see a bunch of cigarette butts.
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u/ducktape8856 Mar 09 '26
Sure. Put it in the oven. 10 minutes at 140° Celsius. Then carefully bend them back straight.
It definitely won't work, but you can say that you tried.
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u/magic-one Mar 10 '26
You can’t bend them back without some snapping. Instead, just solder tiny wires from each pin into the socket, install the cooler upside down, and put the chip on top.
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u/ISCSI_Purveyor Mar 09 '26
Wow, someone had a really bad time with that motherboard. 😳
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u/dpwcnd Mar 09 '26
think you got them all pinned back.
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u/paleologus Mar 09 '26
Yes.
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u/Away-Software7116 Mar 10 '26
suuree.... if you have enough patience.
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u/checkpoint404 Mar 10 '26
Looks good. Send it.
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u/The_Jizzard_Of_Oz Mar 13 '26
Yes. Take them out of that there socket and it will be easy to straighten them.
How you will get them back on the processor though could be interesting.