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Re:'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real ... by frlnBorg on Thursday March 29, 2018 @09:22PM (#16712848)
Use a credit card! I helped a friend build a PC, but when the parts came in he eagerly attempted to put the CPU in the mobo and then proceeded to crush 1/3 of the pins. We used tweezers to "unmash" the pins, and a credit card to fully align them. Worked like a charm.
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Re:'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real ... by Alupis on Friday March 30, 2018 @02:57AM (#16714256)
Always used a mechanical pencil without the lead in it...
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Re:'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real ... by watersb on Friday March 30, 2018 @06:47AM (#16715078)
I had to use a credit card to fix one of these builds... :-)

Actually, your credit-card suggestion is useful. My last bent-pin disater was fortunately a mostly-obsolete PGA Pentium 4 CPU, tweezers and careful, repeated re-insertions into the socket sorted it out. Given that the CPU could be had for about $5, it wasn't worth the effort, but I was trying to help a friend and I felt stupid for dropping the CPU.

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