You never know when luck will come. The most recent example of this happened to bogertonn, a Reddit user. The user bought the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X processor for 3 dollars, which was returned as defective and had malfunctioning pins. However, small...
READING NOW A Reddit user brought to life the Ryzen 9 5900X with bent pins that he bought for $3
Ryzen 9 5900X bought for $3 works
After some fine pin fixes it turned out that the CPU actually worked but the integrated audio didn’t. In the meantime, it should be noted that modern desktop CPUs have hundreds of spare pins and in some cases, even if a pin is missing, the processor will not fail. In this scenario, the missing pins were responsible for the Azalia HD audio part of the processor, which is not so important in terms of functionality.
Meanwhile, unlike Intel or current Ryzen 7000 series processors, the Ryzen 5000 series and previous generation Ryzen processors use PGA-based packaging. So the pins are located on the processor. The processor pins of the current generation are located in the socket on the motherboard.
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