Achievement unlocked: managed to damage AM4 socket.
That takes skill. AM5 and other LGA sockets are ezmode to trash, but this one… brute force was applied.
de4thqu3st
To be fair, no pins damaged. Is easy to repair
Tarc_Axiiom
Wouldn’t that technically work fine? The rubber bit is only guiding the pins into the contacts but since they’re both exact size don’t you technically only need two guides?
If two pins touch the contacts, all of them will.
Still not ideal but it should work fine.
krazy_kh
Socket is such a tease…take it ALL off..woooooee
TarmacJohn
No matter how many times I looked I kept seeing “I stole this PC from Facebook”.
Sukkeh
Thanks for this, always wanted to know what the inside of a socket looked like. Also where the screeching sound -the bent pins on my 5800x made while closing the socket- came from. Now I have hope they are still attached to the cpu after all!
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That’s just the AMD socket transitioning to Intel
Brand new, never opened except for pics. No low ball offers, I know what I got!
so PGA was just LGA in disguise 😱
Those pesky wrappers are always a pain in the ass to get off
How risky would it be to run it like that?
how?
Hardware BIOS update, AM4 to AM5
Delidding motherboards is the new thing in OCing.
Is that a middle-aged LGA socket starting to get bald?!
Should be fine tbh
Retrofit Compatibly
AM4.5 for real
The best deals are the ones you can fix.
I mean does it work lmao
So, I guess am4 does am5!
That hurts my soul
Give it back.

NICE.
This is LGA socket before his trip to Turkey
The pins were too strong
[there is nothing we can do](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxaPQykTUck)
Merely a flesh wound
Achievement unlocked: managed to damage AM4 socket.
That takes skill. AM5 and other LGA sockets are ezmode to trash, but this one… brute force was applied.
To be fair, no pins damaged. Is easy to repair
Wouldn’t that technically work fine? The rubber bit is only guiding the pins into the contacts but since they’re both exact size don’t you technically only need two guides?
If two pins touch the contacts, all of them will.
Still not ideal but it should work fine.
Socket is such a tease…take it ALL off..woooooee
No matter how many times I looked I kept seeing “I stole this PC from Facebook”.
Thanks for this, always wanted to know what the inside of a socket looked like. Also where the screeching sound -the bent pins on my 5800x made while closing the socket- came from. Now I have hope they are still attached to the cpu after all!
It is probably some kind form of art