If your AMD CPU has bent pins, you may not be entirely out of luck -- even if the pins are smashed flat. Here's how we brought back two CPUs from otherwise-lethal injuries.

Austin, Tex.&#151 AMD says its new Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor delivers the performance of a multi-core processor with the same 939-pin micro PGA type packaging as the single-core Athlon 64 CPU.

Reports have surfaced of the 16-pin 12VHPWR socket on an ASRock Taichi OC 9070 XT graphics card blackening and then melting ...

A most important issue was ground and power bounce. To minimize this we maximized the use of slew-rate-limited output buffers, but those slower-output buffers were not appropriate for any pin that ...

AMD has already confirmed that the Zen 4 and RDNA 3 architectures should only hit the market in 2022, however, today we already had a preview of the AMD AM5 processor socket with LGA 1718 pin design.

Alright, there's a lot of pins on a CPU that can break off without killing your CPU, so I'll go over the basics.<br><br>1) Redundant power pin: think about the max power your CPU can use.

Install a CPU wrong, or pull some asshattery, and the pins will bend. They don't come from the factory that way, since the boards never have a CPU installed prior to said idiots failing to do so.

Socket also features an IC guide for precise edge alignment of the processor. The specific configuration of the package to be tested in the SBT-LGA-9019 is LGA, 52.5x45mm body size and 1.016mm pitch.