AMD's Zen CPUs will use a PGA mounting system

[WYP]

AMD's upcoming Zen CPUs will use traditional PGA, Pin Grid Array, mounting system on AM4 motherboards.



Read more on AMD's Summit Ridge CPUs.

 

[Kushiro]

Nice, always found it easier to fix the pins on the processors than the motherboard. How many pins are there again :lol:

If the pins were to be irrepairable, then its gonna cost a pretty penny.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Probably helps decrease costs for motherboard makers too since they no longer need to make sure every pin is straight or risk RMA. So hopefully this translates slightly cheaper boards

 

[Kushiro]

was just imagining someone putting the CPU in the wrong orientation and using for to get it to go it.

 

[barnsley]

as long as I can still fit a mechanical pencil over the pins and rebend them I'll be happy. Otherwise just switch to putting the pins on the motherboard like everyone else.

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

Is is it true that PGAs can't handle as high temperatures as the LGAs?

 

[DARKSF]

All of you folks talk like you never mounted a PGA cpu in your life.It is the easiest thing to do.Even Pentium 4 which had really tiny pins was repairable without problem it you havent bended the pin more than 45 degree.If you put the CPU with a wrong orientation well it is obviously not job for you to do right?If you shoot yourself in the face with a gun it won't be the manufacturer problem that you pointed it at your face but your stupidity.

 

[barnsley]

bended

*bent

Funnily enough most of us have had cpus with PGA mounting systems. My last cpu was an 8320 which I fixed when the pins were bent because thermal paste can act like glue and pull the cpu out of the socket. I've also bought and unbent a fx4300 with bent pins from ebay. Its still being used today.


If it was significantly easier to shoot myself in the face with said gun compared to the other company's gun then yeah, it would be more their fault.

 

[Tolemac]

I really should not comment my NH-D14 stuck to my 8350 like crap to a blanket and I had a whiskey hangover wasn't a good outcome and I ended up buying an 8320

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

I really should not comment my NH-D14 stuck to my 8350 like crap to a blanket and I had a whiskey hangover wasn't a good outcome and I ended up buying an 8320

The stock AMD heatpaste almost gave me a heart attack when I tried lifting the stock heatsink off my 8350... It went -clack-

The cpu didn't come out of the socket, thankfully ^_^

 

[Wraith]

Top tip for removing the blocks from AMD CPUs, run them first to warm them then when you remove the block twist it slightly in either direction to break the TIM seal. Et Viola no bent pins or risk of yanking the CPU out of a locked socket.

 

[g0ggles1994]

Top tip for removing the blocks from AMD CPUs, run them first to warm them then when you remove the block twist it slightly in either direction to break the TIM seal. Et Viola no bent pins or risk of yanking the CPU out of a locked socket.

I was about to suggest that. I've used AMD for many years and never ripped a single CPU from the socket. I always backed off if I couldn't feel the cooler budging when removing it. I would always boot to the BIOS for about a minute or two to heat it up a little bit, switch the PSU off, give the cooler a little jiggle and off it came every time. Also using a different thermal paste like MX-4 and not a lot of it does help as well.