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Question

Processor

Sep 10, 2013 10:47AM PDT

I know is a stupid question anyway I have a intel core i5 4670k and it had dropped on the floor and I have carpet and it had fell on its pins but I quickly picked it up and put it on the motherboard bag but I just wanna make sure it's either staticed or it's okay to use I already know it's most likely screwed so just help me make sure it's is or not sense I did those things to it

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Depends on so much.
Sep 10, 2013 10:56AM PDT

I'm going to say flip a coin. It's a big world and if you had wool carpet on a cold clear day in Vermont then it's gone. But the carpet here on a humid day here would have me think it would be fine.
Bob

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Well
Sep 10, 2013 12:07PM PDT

I live in Indiana and I believe I just have carpet and the room it was in was main tanned from my ac unit at 70 degrees fahrenheit and I'm not sure if in Indiana from what my room was that the processor would be fine but I can't test it out either sense the motherboard I had is fired from what I think the bios battery I can't test it to make sure if its okay and again I don't have a spare as well. I might be getting a replacement motherboard by a warranty and I don't want to find out if the processor is going to fry the motherboard

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I'd try it.
Sep 10, 2013 1:35PM PDT

If there are no foreign material on the connections then I'd plug it in. I've seen CPUs fly across the room and work fine.

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I'm just very scared to do that and one question?
Sep 10, 2013 2:41PM PDT

I am very very afraid to put it in a new motherboard but one question exactly were the CPU's, when they flew in the air, land on carpet?

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Also!!
Sep 10, 2013 2:43PM PDT

My pins are not damaged but I did find a piece of hair when I picked it up from when it dropped but I removed it.

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Start over.
Sep 10, 2013 2:50PM PDT

Now it seems there is more to this story. Folk may have to guess you had a Dead Dell and was trying to fix it.
Bob

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Well...
Sep 10, 2013 3:58PM PDT

There is more of a story of why this all occurred, I shut down my pc when it was fully working after I just rebuilt it in a new case, and I had screwed the motherboard to hard in one area so I was going to go in and loosen it so I can plugin my second monitor. But I don't shut the entire system down I didn't switch the power supply switch off because I thought I was going to just loosen the screw. So I was also going to plugin another speaker from my old case to my motherboard but the speaker fell on the floor when I grabbed it. And I was not thinking at the time, and put it on my desks metal arm thinking it would de-static the speaker. So I plug it in and next thing I see is my fans try to turn on but didn't like the system shut it self off to protect its self and I see smoke rise from my motherboard around the pci express area. And thats what happened, the next day I took out the motherboard and the processor and tried to shut the plastic little box that seals the processor but it didn't shut and the processor slipped and flew straight on its pins on the carpet. I had quickly after pick it up and saw a hair on it and got rid of that and then placed it on my motherboard bag that it came with. And now I am wonder if the processor is screwed or did I save it from what I did in my reaction. I feel like its dead sense this happened I need to know before Thursday possibly if I have to buy a new one.

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So this is the fried motherboard story at link?
Sep 11, 2013 1:02AM PDT
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Give it a try
Sep 10, 2013 12:06PM PDT

At this point you don't have much to lose. Place it in the socket, watch any power lights and monitor as you power it on. It just might be okay....

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One Problem for me
Sep 10, 2013 2:27PM PDT

I don't have a working motherboard my motherboard will show the light but its yellow and it won't boot at all