Good specs, lower than average FPS on most new games

Mellon Head said:

lightingft said:

I doubt it's the GPU, could be the broken pins..

So what pins exactly are broken?

The CPU Socket pins on the mobo. 5 of them were bent and I had them bent back manually, and 2 of them are broken. I see my CPU usage spiking, and every game that I have non-steady FPS on relates to it being a CPU intensive game, so I'm guessing it's that.

Mellon Head said:

So two of the pins on your CPU are broken? Or is it your motherboard pins? I don't quite follow how motherboard CPU pins could be broken and straightened again. They are in a socket which prevents the pins from moving around. But I'm surprised it runs at all.

Looks like it's time for a new CPU or motherboard, depending on what is broken.

No, the CPU Socket. The part of the motherboard where the CPU goes in. Not the CPU's.

Mellon Head said:

Then you need a new motherboard. I wouldn't even try to run a CPU where the socket had missing pins. It might get damaged that way. If one of those pins is a ground reference, there's no telling what can happen.

Like I said, I'm surprised it runs at all.

Half of the people says it's fine running with two broken pins if the PC runs fine, while the other half says it's bad.. I've been running fine for about 2 weeks now, I don't know.

Mellon Head said:

Well, it's your PC, but by the sound of things, it is not running fine. You have something that is obviously broken. Is it not possible that the cause of your performance problem is the broken pins?

That is probably the cause. There's no way of telling though, because I had performance drops before the pins breaking, but I had 90 celsius temps on CPU before pins breaking too, which I've fixed, and alongside that, a new problem occurred - the pins...

essenbe said:

I'm not sure about your market, but here socket 1155 boards are pretty hard to come by. You may try to call Intel and see what they would charge you to repair the pins. The socket can be replaced, but only by a manufacturer.

As Mellon Head said, I'm surprised it runs at all. Each of those pins connect to the CPU and some function of it to everything on the motherboard. Whatever those broken pins control, is not working.

I'm already looking into a new motherboard, the MSI Z97 Gaming 5 presumably.

Layback Bear said:

If everything is running fine then what is the purpose of this thread.

If I had a motherboard with broken pins I would just replace the motherboard. Intel didn't put those pins on the motherboard
just for the hell of it. Those pins are there for a reason.
I'm not really sure how a pin gets broken on a motherboard unless it was in manufacturing and then the Intel motherboard would not of passed inspection.

I don't know if those broken pins are causing your run fine problem but they are causing some sort of problem.

I did find a seller. Never tried them so I don't know anything about them.

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I broke them upon an incident manually.. That's how they are broken. Also the purpose of this thread is to address any other problems, as at that time I did not know it's purely my processor and motherboard causing the problems.