A person with the nickname bogertonn purchased a 12-core Ryzen 9 5900X processor from a local Amazon returns store. The chip had bent contacts, which in most cases means a “dead” processor. It cost $3 instead of the usual $349, and bogertonn decided to give it a try.
After a neat job of straightening the legs, the processor did indeed work, but without built-in sound. Modern desktop CPUs have hundreds of pins – in some cases a missing pin won’t cause a major malfunction. In this case, the two missing contacts were not important for functionality, but were responsible for the sound of the Azalia HD.
The legs on relatively new AMD processors are very fragile, even their alignment back does not guarantee performance, and they can easily fall off. Their qualified repair is possible only in a professional service, where contacts can be resoldered. The more expensive the processor, the more sense in repair. The owner of the chip decided to try it himself – and he was lucky, only these two pins were broken.
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There is a pinmap for AMD AM4 CPUs in the public domain – this may help others to check if the missing pin is critical to the functionality of the CPU before trying to straighten the legs.
AMD Ryzen 7000 processors use contact pads instead of legs. However, the contacts located in the sockets of the processors of both the main market players are still quite fragile.
The repair service in Germany discovered a massive defect in AMD Radeon RX 6900 and 6800 video cards – the graphics processor was destroyed
Source: VideoCardz
