Why Must Pins Be So Delicate?
Amy Kay
This admittedly is partially a user issue. But I was cable managing my computer today, not anything special.
But while doing so, I totally forgot to unplug the JRGB connector from the header. While managing the cables, I must've applied some amount of pressure that ended up bending one of the pins on the header. This is the user issue, and I take full accountability for my mistake. I ended up fixing it by putting pressure on the pin slowly and steadily.
All is well now, but why must these connectors be so fragile? Crap, some motherboard components I must apply pressure to the board that I'm afraid of breaking something, but when I apply that same method to other components I end up permanently or temporarily breaking something.
I'm no hardware engineer, so I'm out of my depth when answering that question. It's frankly just frustrating. For some pins it's not so bad, you can pretty easily fix a header connector, but CPU pins are a different story. I love AMD's CPUs but while working with them it's impossible for me not to be a little doubtful that I won't end up doing something wrong because the pins are on the CPU itself. I get more fear from having pins on the processor than on the socket itself.
Rookie mistakes I suppose, at least I haven't broken anything permanent (not so far).
Conclusion
Be careful with electronics, even when you have the most confidence.
Side-note
I apologize for the lack of posting here. I have a few things in my drafts that I'm working on right now, mixed that with finishing up the semester, holidays, maintaining my projects; and it's a mess.
I hope to publish something relating to my "Project Apple" computer, something in-depth (looking at the components, philosophy of the build and design, etc).
Thank you all for the support.