Okay so I bent my socket pins on a Asus TUF Z60 installing the contact fram the wrong way and when picking it up the cpu lifted and dropped into the socker I bent the pins back but getting BSOD system thread exception when trying to install windows updated on a fresh windows install to make sure its not the windows

Is the cpu damaged or should I just get a new motherboard

https://photos.app.goo.gl/skPVUXfk5MzYvZpb6

Also ran cinebench r23 for 30min for stability and prime95 for around 30min and now BSOD only when booting up

  • charonmeBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Yeah this might be a problem since the contact frame doesn’t have a tensioning mechanism other than just tightly fastening the bolts, so the required pressure force is left for the heatsink mounting mechanism - both of which must result in quite uneven pressure on the pins especially with air heatsinks with only 2 mounting points mounted on vertical boards. I plan to use spring washers under the contact frame bolts for this reason