Problem Running 9850 Black Edition short one pin?

[Robert-The-Rambler]

Well, I got a shipment of an open box 9850 black edition processor from Newegg and a pin was bent. I tried everything I could to straighten it but my efforts led to the snappage of the pin. Anyhow I applied thermal grease to it and put in it in a MSI K9A2 Platinum motherboard and somehow it still posted. Naturally I am puzzled. Is this supposed to be possible? Isn't socket 940 called that because of the 940 pins. Anyhow I have not tested any benches yet. I am going to do that soon but I am so surprised that I am even able to do this post right now. Keep your fingers crossed I will report back after trying some CPU stressing gaming benchmarks. Any ideas? Maybe a stub of the pin is left and somehow making contact. Maybe its divine intervention. Maybe I'm just imagining all of this. Who knows?

[1Kurgan1]

When did you order it, even an open box proc can be sent back I think within 7 days. Granted you are the one who snapped the pin off, it was still sent to you with a bent pin.

[alucasa]

A few pins are blank pins, so you might be lucky that the pin that's gone might have been one of those.

[Robert-The-Rambler]

Well, I got the 9850 for just $83 plus shipping so I had some thoughts about whether this was a too good to be true deal. When I saw the package they actually delivered the chip in I knew right away that something was going to be wrong. They whether it be Newegg or UPS shipped a fragile CPU in what looks like a cheap envelope like you might ship CDs or DVDs. I know it was an open box deal not in the retail box but I expected at least "a" box. Imagine the beating this thing could have taken with the chip in a paper envelope/bag only really protected by the little plastic container it was in and the pins cushiioned against the little pad they ship with. Frankly I am amazed it works and hot damn it runs so cool stock with my stock cooler for the X2 6000+. I'm only getting idle temps of 31 degrees celcius and haven't seen higher than 36. With these specs I got a perfect straight line in the Devil May Cry Far 4 benchmark.

Antec 900 case
MSI K9A2 Platinum motherboard
AMD Phenom 9850 stock 2.5ghz
8 gigabytes of DDR2 800 RAM
2 Seagate 500 gig 16 meg Sata 2 hard drives in Raid 0
4850 X2 2 gig and Radeon 4850 1 gig in triple crossfire
Soundblaster Audigy SE in analog stereo

[PowerMAN]

if your brave enough you can fix it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdDccsbv5hA

good luck

[BradleyKZN]

I remember on my 3500+ i could unlock the multiplier by adding a tiny wire into the actual socket between two pins. So it might be ok hey

[newtekie1]

If it is broken off, and still POSTs, then the pin is unused, and you got lucky.

[Robert-The-Rambler]

Originally Posted by newtekie1

If it is broken off, and still POSTs, then the pin is unused, and you got lucky.

It works really well and I wish I had ordered 2 but anyway I really like it and for whatever reason it seems snappier for everything than my X2 6000 was with Windows Live One Care anti virus running. I also have I7 based PCs and I find Phenoms more than adequate and the fact is they are way cooler than the I7s even though their power consumption is almost the same. As long I get 60 FPS locked at vertical sync I am happy. I know the I7 is faster but it is very tough to cool that stuff quietly with triple GPU systems.

But it still works and it works great with Vista 64 bit Premium with 8 gigs of DDR2 800 RAM.

[oli_ramsay]

I had a pin snap off my athlon 2600+ XP and it still worked fine

But to be safe I put a small piece of paper clip in the mobo's socket so it would still make contact with the CPU.