I will say that it's odd to me that B&H would do this. I don't buy from them often and I don't live near them, but my impression was that most of their money was made from high end cinema and photography stuff, not PC part sales. That stuff is...
I've repaired many boards with bent pins and I agree with you. The amount of careless stuff I've seen (e.g. thermal compound on the pins) just tells me most of the time it's the initial installer. I've mentioned it before but another common one...
Is there no possibility that you accidentally bent the pins? Maybe when disassembling the pc?
I always take well lit pictures of my new pc components, especially mobos. Both sides, and a few zoom in on serial/part number looking stickers, and...
Got a "your product is now in-stock" notice from Keychron, this morning. Impulse overwhelmed reason and I bought the Q1 HE sitting in my cart. Hope I don't regret it.
EDIT: Shipped today (y)
I bought an EK Nucleus 360 for my current build, but returned it when all this news broke. I hadn't installed it and was concerned about warranty service if EK went tits up. Maybe they will, maybe they won't. I just didn't want to take any...
I completely forgot about this thread--for some reason I either stopped getting notifications about it or I missed one. I bought one of these after reading this post, and I love it. I got the 37gf mint switches.
My misadventures with the 8 Pro have taken another maddening twist. Battery life has gotten better as of late, but the fingerprint scanner has become a steaming pile of excrement. No matter how many times I scan and rescan and rescan and rescan...
This is my office setup:
Audeze LCD-X and Chord Hugo2
Klipsch 5.1 reference quintet. I picked up a Yamaha RX-V361 second hand to run them. System replaced my Logitech Z-5500.
Running off a Sound Blaster Z.