In the event you wrench the CPU out of its socket, you may still end up okay. We’ve had it happen to us a few times without pin damage. Don’t take that as license to yank on the cooler without ...

The CPU will lay flat on the socket without having to apply any force or pressure whatsoever. Lowering the metal frame onto ...

The outer diameter of its metal nib fits between adjacent CPU pins without pushing on them, while the inner diameter fits just about perfectly around an individual pin. This close fit lets you ...

Processor maker AMD has recently moved away from using pins on its latest Zen 4 CPUs, such as the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, and instead uses a land grid array like Intel - you'll find plenty of these CPUs ...

This could damage the CPU, the motherboard, or both. The bottom line is this: if your heatsink or liquid cooler has its own backplate, don't use it with Socket AM5.

I wish I had thought of that before I tried to straighten the bent pins on my P4 1.9 (I dropped it from 3" onto the floor). One snapped off. I was lucky, as it was just a VCC pin.

while Intel has the pins in the socket. That means that it’s easier to handle the CPU itself without damaging it, but you need to be a little more careful during the installation. Pick up your ...

Intel recently unveiled its Core Ultra 200S Arrow Lake processors at a launch event in Japan, where MSI, a key OEM partner, conducted a detailed examination of the CPU's physical structure.

For starters, the pins are on the chip itself ... and start again. No AMD processor will work for long without a cooler. You’ll get one in the box with most AMD CPUs, or you can use an ...

AMD has long stuck with a pin grid array (PGA) for its CPU packaging. You could go all the way back to the original Athlon processors and find a chip package not all that different from today's 16 ...