Yeah, the CPU is very delicate, you have to be insanely careful not to bend the pins, or bye bye.

Yeah, the CPU is very delicate, you have to be insanely careful not to bend the pins, or bye bye.

Indeed! I was very surprised not a single pin was a bent because of the earlier mishap.

Good thing yo, or you would've been out of a motherboard and cpu

Indeed! I was very surprised not a single pin was a bent because of the earlier mishap.

Lucky you, but not for me as during the build of my computer, I had a bad motherboard with several bent CPU pins that had me to send an RMA for a new motherboard, newegg initially rejecting it claiming that I damaged it (despite the fact my CPU worked perfectly on my new motherboard) and sending it back, requested a refund and I'm still waiting it as it's getting processed right now.

Nice job building this excellent rig Misty.

Nice, we have the same case.

Though my Comrade is bulging a bit on the side because it barely fits a Hyper 212 EVO.

Nice, we have the same case.

 

Though my Comrade is bulging a bit on the side because it barely fits a Hyper 212 EVO.

Yeah the Comrade was very good to work with, I had a couple of issues with getting the front cables to reach the motherboard but that was AsRock's fault rather than Comrade's fault.

Yeah the Comrade was very good to work with, I had a couple of issues with getting the front cables to reach the motherboard but that was AsRock's fault rather than Comrade's fault.

Nice choice on the board. ASRock makes a nice board especially for the $.

I wouldn't worry too much about bent pins. I once tore an AMD CPU out of a locked socket because the cheap thermal goop turned into adhesive over the course of a few years. Came out with a few bent pins. Bent them back into place and popped it back in. Still using it today.

Was it a integrated graphics card? I don't see your process of putting one in so ill assume so. GCs are a huge pain to get in but looks like you did a top notch job.

Was it a integrated graphics card? I don't see your process of putting one in so ill assume so. GCs are a huge pain to get in but looks like you did a top notch job.

Yes I used an integrated gpu, a big reason why I chose AMD because Intel has shit integrated graphics, my friend wasn't going to use this for gaming so he didn't need an Nvidia gtx 780 or anything like that.

One thing to remember when building is that you should always, always make sure that the golden triangle on the processor aligns with the triangle on the socket. This is to ensure that the pins won't get bent while installing.

One thing to remember when building is that you should always, always make sure that the golden triangle on the processor aligns with the triangle on the socket. This is to ensure that the pins won't get bent while installing.

Yeah I did that! The problem was I took the term "use no force" way to literally and I literally just set it on top with no force what-so-ever and assumed that it was set in place, then when I put the fan on the got pulled off by it! Luckily fixed it very quickly.