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This is pretty cool! Maybe @crunklord420 would find this useful as well source

It's been a few hours and I have finally did it. I installed a new CPU. You may ask "It's not hard installing one, what took you so long?"

I'm not ordinary guy, I'm what you'd call a retard. I have a motherboard with an AM4 socket, that much I knew. So I ordered a Ryzen 7 5800X3D since I knew it would be the best CPU for my socket before I'd have to upgrade the whole motherboard. Which I wasn't planning on.

It took a while but it eventually arrived. I was giddy to get it installed and running, so I put my PC on its side and took out the old CPU and put back the new one, no issues there. I turn on the PC and I see a red light, indicating an error.

Now this is where I fuck up. I saw my GPU also light up, which made me think it was a power supply issue. (I didn't even check LMAO) I had a 600W PSU so I thought it must have been on the edge of its capacity so I might as well upgrade the PSU too.

I took out the new CPU to put back the old one so I could have a running PC meanwhile. But like the fuckup that I am, I was cutting corners and didn't put the PC on its side so when I tried to take the new CPU, it fell and I was rushing to grab it before it hit the floor.

I stared at the CPU looking like I just broke a vase and I inspected the damage. There were a few bent pins, just a little bit that it wouldn't fit snug to a socket. I tell to myself "It's not the end of the world, I can fix it" and put the old CPU which was still OK, but correctly this time.

I ordered a new PSU and I waited for the day I install the PSU to fix the CPU as well.

The new PSU arrived quickly and I just had to find a free day to fix my mess, which is today.

The PSU stuff was an easy quick swap. Just a few cable managment stuff, but not biggy.

I brought my twisser which and started to work on my CPU. I was so shaky trying to bend them all back to place, careful not to overbend and weaken the pins. But I eventually felt like it was all straight enough.

When I took out my old CPU again to try and fit the 5800X3D I felt some resistance, turns out I put too much thermal and it was pulled out with the heatsink. LOL. No damage to the socket, luckily.

It took a while, but inserting the 5800X3D to the socket I felt a wobble. I knew it wasn't snug to base. It took me back and forth checking pins, making sure they aren't bending on the insert. 2 HOURS. On the last try I gave it a small force but it "clicked" and dropped snug. It didn't feel like I bent anything at all. SUCCESS.

Turning on the PC to see if it worked and, to my dismay, I find the same issue like last time. Motherboard error.

This time I check what this means and it turns out I just needed to update the BIOS, the new PSU wasn't needed. Oh well it's quieter than what I had.

Let me tell you, ASUS with their Q-Flash easy flashing wasn't fucking easy in the slightest. You first need to find an old update (since I haven't flashed my MB at all since getting it) and then reflash it to the latest update.

And viola! CPU running!

Thank you for reading my story. Now I gotta eat since I totally didn't even eat anything today.