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so over the last couple of months you guys have sent in PC parts that either are broken and you'd like me to try and fix them or you've sent in PC parts that are completely working fine and you just want to support the channel so big thank you you guys and the most curious of the parts that got sent in was a brand new risin v 1400 with a lot of bent pins so today we're gonna try and fix these broken pots and see if we can get them working welcome back to tech yes city this is brian coming to you guys today with that video where we're going to try and fix up first of all this Rison v 1400 now if you somehow happen to get bent pins on a rise in CPU then you've clearly done something wrong in the process of installing this CPU in the case of Matt from the UK he sent in his rising CPU I didn't ask him how he did this he just said he had a rising CPU with a lot of bent pins and when I saw this it did have a lot of bent pins I've never seen this many pen pins on a rising CPU in my life before and I don't know how you do something like this but we're gonna try and fix this and the problem with PGA versus lgo PGA being the AMD CPUs is that the pins are generally stronger so you won't get away with a mechanical pencil or in the case of using a toothpick like I usually do it doesn't work either so in this case I had to actually use a screwdriver and a pair of tweezers to try and fix up all these bent pins now the difficult thing about fixing up PGA socketed pins is that because they're stronger and you use a little bit more force if you bend them back the other way and especially if they've been bent pretty hard then you can snap the pin off and in the case of the Verizon v 1400 I was on my kitchen bench trying to fix this and then on my couch for literally hours on end just bending pins back and forth and in the process two of the pins actually snapped off because they were really weak to begin with so with that I did manage to finally fit it in the socket and if you do this you have to of course be very careful I found actually that the mechanical screwdriver did end up working the best for me one with a very thin tip and then you had a lot more control of course if you've got bad tools in your arsenal like a really fine piece of tweezers then you'll probably have a better time doing this and when I installed the CPU it did actually work in the end I booted up into the BIOS I got into the bias that one very odd thing with those two broken pins off was that we were now running in single channel memory mode and I confirmed that it wasn't the motherboard when I installed a different rosin CPU that I had around here so we're now in single channel mode and we couldn't get dual channel mode to work so I pulled out the CPU and then tried to put two broken pins back in from another CPU so I busted off off a one-dollar FM to old-school APU busted off two pins off that stuck them in the socket and it didn't work still so this thing about sticking pins in the socket on a m4 it might not work as it didn't work for me and I tried getting these pins in and actually got them in perfectly I thought but it didn't work in the end so if you do want to put pins back on a rising CPU that I'd recommend micro Sol during it's something that I can't do personally I don't have the gear at the moment and my hands are pretty rough so you need to have what I call surgeon hands in order to perform this mod so in the end we did manage to get the horizon 5 1400 working though it wasn't a perfect fix I may try in the future to get this thing working again so if you guys have any suggestions and be sure to drop them in the comments section below however before we get on to the next broken parts in the list I'd like to give a big shout out to today's video sponsor video blocks with video blocks so you guys can log on to the website download any of their massive array of stock footage and you can choose from that download and put it in your videos and you don't 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description below so nothing to lose and with that let's get back to fixing those broken PC parts so the next part we've got up here is one that I was really excited about when I went used PC parts hunting in Japan I picked this up for ten dollars as e68 Maximus gene from a Zeus very expensive motherboard when it was released new still expensive if you've got one that works perfectly fine to this date and when I saw it in the stores everything physically checked out except the two bent pins and I thought I'd take the gamble on this and buy it since two bent pins is pretty easy to fix on LGA and now this time around I got my trusty toothpick which is the method that I do prefer and then bent the two pins back in literally like five seconds and the really good news was was that after I did this it was working absolutely fine now Daniel from Adelaide on Facebook he sent me over AG 620 so I could update the bass if need be so thank you for sending that CPU and it did work fine and also with that the BIOS on this motherboard was actually the latest revision to begin with so I didn't have to update the BIOS I then proceeded to test out a 2500 K which James from Western Australia sent over so big thank you as well for that and that worked perfectly fine then I decided to test the two CPUs that I bought in Japan the 3770k which I got for $100 and also the i3 3240 which I got for around $25 I believe and both these CPUs worked absolutely fine as well now the next sample we've got up here was Tim from New Zealand now Tim in the past has sent me over a z87 X with a 4690k and unfortunately the motherboard didn't work in that case but the i-5 did so we managed to score an i-5 it did work out in the end it's a real big thank you to Tim this time around is sent in a Zee 970 pros three from asrock and also an FX 8350 and he says it just doesn't work he wants me to test it out and upon checking out the board physically it did check out fine there was nothing that looked wrong it physically checked out okay there was no bad smells coming from it and upon pulling off the CPU from the socket I noticed that there was a little bit of thermal paste in the socket itself and now with this especially on PGA sockets it's very not only dangerous but it can stop a CPU motherboard combo from working in this case there's two different types of thermal paste that generally can cause problems there's actually three different types the third which I recommend now a lot of the time which is like mx4 it's non conductive and non capacitive however a lot of thermal paces out there are either capacitive conductive or both now if you use a capacitive thermal paste like Arctic silver for example you do run the risk of parts not working however you usually don't have the risk of damaging parts with a capacitive thermal paste you'll just see that the product just simply doesn't work because the bridging power isn't strong enough to damage the perspective parts however if you use a conductive thermal paste that's where you can run into some really big problems things like liquid metal for example if that bridges to different SM DS together you can have some real big problems not only damaging the part that touches that but also parts that are connected that too so be very careful with conductive thermal paste however this time around I believe capacitive thermal paste was used because after I cleaned up the socket with brake cleaner and also the CPU itself the product was then working fine this 970 pro 3 motherboard and the FX 8350 booted up absolutely fine so next up we have Vasily from Italy and big thank you for this he sent over a z97 X gaming g1 motherboard and also at 4790k so that's a lot of money to send us over man thank you a lot for that and now he says this motherboard and CPU worked perfectly fine and also after I tested it out it did indeed work perfectly fine now why do test these parts out and I do recommend testing out any used parts is because if you don't and your then you do a use bill them the amount of time you're going to waste pulling all those parts out again the frustrations you could have is well worth that time just quickly testing it out before you put it in the build so I always recommend testing out use parts before you use them in builds however Vasily did have one request that I used with his motherboard and that was to test it out in battlefield one because when he was using this motherboard and CPU he was having problems with low frame rates with a gtx 1080i so what i'm gonna do in the future i'm gonna put this in a build and then i'm going to test it with battlefield one with a 1080 Ti I'm gonna overclock the memory overclock that CPU and see if it does indeed have stuttering problems or it just can't simply handle a 1080 Ti which I think of 4790k overclocked to around 4.8 gigahertz should handle a 1080 T I absolutely fine and for the final part to check out here today we had Jeffrey from the US he sent over a GTX 970 from EVGA this is the a CX 2.0 big thank you he said this product works perfectly fine he's just upgraded his graphics card now to a 10 Series card so he doesn't need the 970 anymore and when looking at this thing it looked like it was literally brand new so big thanks Jeffrey I decided to quickly test it out and lo and behold it worked perfectly fine so I don't know man these parts that are getting sent in a lot of them are very expensive I may do a giveaway PC for instance with the z97 XG one and also this GTX 970 it's a lot to ask from you guys I really appreciate this support a lot guys it really does help the channel however in ways I feel like it's a little bit too much if you guys want to jump on patron for example just for a dollar a month you can support the channel that way I mean sending over parts that are worth like to $300 is a big thank you but I probably will use them for more charitable options because I just feel a bit too greedy accepting donations that big anyway that's about it for today guys big thank you for tuning in if you enjoyed this video - be sure to hit that like button and let me know in the comments section below what was your favorite fixed part of today I enjoyed fixing up all these parts I thought that z68 motherboard was actually my favorite it was just a quick to backs of the pins and it worked perfectly fine after that the risin 5 1400 that's still a little bit of work in progress but at least it does work maybe will be interesting to test this out with single channel memory on two channels that was actually recognized so this is a really cool thing a really unique thing maybe I can turn it into a really interesting video with double single channel memory versus dual channel memory who knows but anyways before I get on out here big thank you to video blocks for sponsoring out this video I'll put the link in the description below you can get a 7 day free trial awesome footage not just for using for b-roll but 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