Bought this Ryzen 5 5600X off of Ebay.
Big question mark: Why didn’t the seller just ship in the plastic CPU case?! It was just wrapped in a little bubble wrap and stashed between cardboard. Pulled it out and immediately saw the bent pins 😭. Hopefully Ebay support pulls through!
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My rule of thumb is don’t buy electronics from eBay. Otherwise you’ll just end up buying the same thing twice. The money you think you save is money you’ve just burnt and you end up spending significantly more.
That is easy fix with tip of mechanical pencil.
I sold my old 5800x on eBay, but I was sure to add pin pictures from all 4 angles and above, one of which I’ve posted below, so the buyer knew it was ok.
https://preview.redd.it/bf6olawj81df1.jpeg?width=3215&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b4a1635cd7629dfe592c6a812315d6e3ef122617
razor blade or straight edge and that’s a 30 second fix. 5 if you don’t spend 25 seconds looking at your amazing work afterwards!
***Why didn’t the seller just ship in the plastic CPU case?***
They used someone else’s photos and didn’t have the case?
there are some things to buy on ebay, delicate expensive things like cpu’s, mobos and gpus definitely ain’t it for me.
At least use your local “ebay”, so you can check the stuff. And never pay with paypal friends&family!!!
I think I know why that happened, it happened to me also when I bought a ryzen 7. The seller placed the cpu in the plastic case in the wrong position. And all 4 corners had bent pins when I removed it
I always used a debit card or something like that to fix pins
I used to sell my PC components on eBay. Everything I sold was in mint condition and I even provided bench results and proof of operation.
I no longer sell that stuff on eBay. Why? Because eBay allows sellers to get scammed so easily. I’m sure I’m not the only “good” seller who stopped using eBay for stuff like that.
Not saying there are no good sellers left, but from my perspective, eBay alienates good behavior to maintain being so buyer-centric (in addition to being incredibly expensive on the fee side) that scammy buyers can drive out good sellers.
To be fair it doesn’t look too hard to correct with a n xactoknife
Same happened here. Seller just threw a loose CPU in a box with no protection and refused to admit fault even after I sent pictures of the packaging and bent pins. Luckily I bent the pins back and it worked (was a nightmare to fix though, took a few tries to get it to fit properly in the socket).
Straighten them out in sets of rows using a putty knife… a credit card is too thin, will bend, and not straighten things evenly.
Don’t apply a ton of force right away… slowly increase pressure until things start moving. “You can always add more.”
Periodically see if it fits in the socket yet, wiggle it a tiny bit, eventually the ZIF socket will do the rest of the work.
i’ve bought multiple cpus off of ebay and never had an issue, typically i try and find ones that have been delidded or overclocked contrary to what other people say as the seller at least won’t screw you, in my experience
pictures show box as part of the offer so unless he specified that’s it’s not included you can easily get a refund or if you want to keep it maybe get a discount from the seller for bent pins and lack of original packaging.
If you look closely enough, the pins are already bent in the ebay listing.
Once you unbend a pin, you can use a thin card between the rows to check for flatness
No big deal at all. Straighten the pins with a mechanical pencil if you have it, or maybe a credit card or guitar pick if you don’t.
Credit card or a small rigid edge; lightly tweak the pin back straight. Unless there’s a ton of bent pins you should be able to get it back working perfectly fine. With small damage like this the seller might not have noticed, I would hope thats why
I have had my fair share of old 939 athlons with bent pins. All still work, I have straightned pins with flathead screwdriver. Sometimes I have even jammed them into socket, with pins correcting themselves.
https://preview.redd.it/1y3nt6f7j1df1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0270f8e11424efb2d1b89a463c5c7218b397bd47
Update 2: It now fits the socket! Clamping…
recently got a 3700X for a build, was shipped in the plastic case it would have come in and still had bent pins in that same corner yours does. Was able to bend them back with a flat head screwdriver and it works fine, but still annoying.
Holy fuck people. Just buy a common dish sponge and plop the CPU in it. Lazy fucks really should have some at home anyways. Hope you get it working chief. I’d still tell Ebay you didnt get it working and get him fucked.
Thats super easy to fix. get a mechanical pencil, take lead out and use it to bend them back. It sucks you have to do it but probably easier than returning and all that.
Bent pins?? Those are hardly bent. Get some tweezers or something and fix it. No problemo that CPU is absolutely fine. Those pins are so mildly bent I wouldn’t even catagorize them as bent
I’ve fixed way worse. Do you really want to go through the hassle of returning it? Just straighten the pins and at least test if it works.
Just bend them back, not hard
straighten the pins out and use it.
You can use a mechanical pencil to straighten it up.
This is extremely common with used ryzen cpus, it’s the plastic case. It takes 2 minutes to straighten them back with a straight razor.