PC Gaming

[Tom]

Your not a dumbass - I have built many a machine and have bent pins a few times through rookie mistakes.
Mainly cleaning thermal paste and accidentally damaging some pins.

Older AMD are the worse as the pins were on the processor.

Issue was I didn't expect the AM5 mobo pins to be that horribly sensitive. It's insane. Youn literally need to be a surgeon to put those little fuckers back into place.

 

[Placebo]

I feel for you, buddy. It's usually crap like that which fucks me over e-v-e-r-y-t-i-m-e I build new rigs. It's like a curse or something. When I upgraded to my 9800X3D recently, I bent a pin on the motherboard in the process which lead to only half of my memory working. When I noticed the bent pin, I put on microscopic magnifiers and took a needle to gently put it back into its position...only to fuck up 20 more pins with the back of my hand. Fuck that. Had to get another motherboard after.

edit. This post makes me seem like a total dumbass. I'm not, I swear.

I switched from AMD to Intel not so long back and I hadn't realised that the pins were now on the mobo not the CPU as they were on the AMD, I fucked up two motherboards and lost a core on one CPU thanks to that so it's definitely not just you, and I've been building/upgrading PCs for over 20 years It's definitely not just you that's for sure!

 

[bsmaff]

Installed my 9950X3D yesterday and my 5090.
Framerates have improved a lot more than expected - Probably more to do with the 9950X3D than the 5090.

 

[Sany023]

Welp, it happened to me. At night I installed a new SSD. So I disconnected my PC to upgrade. Easy plug and play, right?
Nope, everything ran like crap, 5fps in the few games that ran, sluggish performance. Ran a bunch of tests..

- Maybe it was the power settings I was messing with a day before... nope, couldn't even remember what I changed
- maybe bios.... nope everything looked fine and updated
- maybe I moved a cable.... nope, reconnected and gpu, took out ram and put it back , could the gpu be fried?
- psu cable damaged and not giving enough power? nope, all looked ok, relatively new....
- f' it, Ill reinstall windows. wiped out C: drive and reinstalled programs / windows... Nope, still runs like crap

there I was, defeated after troubleshooting for hours.... and then, in the corner of my eye, I saw a comment "make sure your HDMI cable is plugged to your GPU and not the motherboard".....

In the words of Forrest Gump : I'm not a smart man......

The good in all this story, except of anecdotical situation itself - that, in the end, easy solution was found and nothing is wrong with any of pc electronic components.