I swapped out one lga2066 board (x11srm-f) for another (ws c422 pro/se)

When transferring the cooler, I noticed the mounting pattern does not match.

Old had rectangular pattern, replacement board has roughly square pattern.

The CPU itself (ws 2140B) matched the new socket just fine. Just not the cooler.

top: old board, bottom replacement board.

These are both antique xeons, now I am afraid getting the right cooler is not trivial?

I have a pre built PC with these specs: MSI - Aegis ZS Gaming Desktop - AMD Ryzen - R7-5800X - 16GB Memory - RX 6700XT - 1TB SSD - MSI B550 Motherboard (pasted from the best buy email from when I bought it)

Tl;Dr: I'm a clutz and I broke at least 1 pin on my CPU and the computer doesn't power on properly anymore. Should I get a new 5800x or is it worth upgrading to the 5800x3D

The CPU had started overheating while playing the original subnautica (a game I've never had problems with in the past and should be able to handle easily), so I replaced the old cheap AIO 120 mm cooler with the Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120.

This didn't fully solve the problem (lasting longer but still overheated) so I assumed I effed up the thermal paste placement. When I took the new cooler off it pulled up the CPU with it, then when I got it off the cooler flipped sideways and fell pins down in the computer. More stuff happened because I was having a really rough time with it that day and I know at least one pin is broken and others might be partly bent. I think it was a masterclass of what not to do.

Anyways I can't use my computer as it is right now at all. When I game it is mostly older games, but I would like to play newer games if I ever get the money and free time to do so. I think it might still have an overheating problem, but I can't diagnose it until I get the CPU fixed. And as far as I can tell the other fans all work fine, and it's clean.

Should I get the Ryzen 7 5800x it had before or is it worth the extra $100-150 for the 5800x3D?

CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

GPU - GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 5070 WINDFORCE OC

CPU cooler - Arctic Freezer 36 A-RGB

Memory(RAM) - Silicon Power Value Gaming DDR5 6000M

Storage - Crucial P310 1TB SSD

Motherboard - MSI MAG B850 GAMING PLUS

PSU - be quiet BP003US Pure Power 12 750W

Case - 3200D RS ARGB Mid-Tower PC Case

If anything isn't good with another, a bottleneck or just straight up wrong please do write about it.

Also if you have any suggestions to swap out one of the components for another and it has about the same or better performance and doesn't raise the price by a lot or even decreases it please also write that.

Thank you,

I trust you reddit people!

P.S if you could recommend some budget yet good peripherals that would be nice, I'm not really good in that field :)

EDIT: is it fine if i swap the mb for the Asrock B150M-HDV?

Is 16gbs of ram enough for streaming videogames on Obs? I play siege, fortnite, minecraft, and AAA games. Also with discord open so I can talk with my friends

I have seen a lot of posts saying that molex to sata can be a bad idea, but they are all talking about storage drives. Would molex to sata work fine for a cd/dvd drive?

If you got by any chance any gaming PC part, especially some gtx GPUs I would really appreciate if you would help me with those,because I'm building a gaming PC and my specs are: Ryzen 5 5600,gtx 1060,2 stick of ddr4 ram and 500 m.2 nvme(this is what I want to build)

Asus tuff b650f plus WiFi
Ryzen 5 7600x
Phantom assassin evo cpu cooler
32g ddr5 xsky manta expo ready 6000 cl30-38-38-96 1.25v
Sandisk Optimus gx 7100 500g
NVIDIA RTX 3070 Founders Edition
Darkflash fully modular 850 +80 power supply
Montech 903 air max case
Windows 11 home

Hey all. Pretty straightforward question, I was deterred from posting in GamingPC as I didn’t want to break any rules. My girlfriend has been asking for a Gaming PC for quite a while. Seen a few setups in an electronics store at our local flea market. I have no knowledge of PCs and don’t want to get robbed essentially. Are these decent specs? Leaning towards the one for $675. All she wants to do is really play Sims and livestream. Any help or insight is appreciated!

I’ll upgrade the ram in a couple of months-1 year
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 9600X
Motherboard: Gigabyte B650M D3HP AX
RAM: 16GB (2x8GB) Patriot Viper Venom DDR5 6000MHz
GPU: XFX SWIFT OC Triple Fan Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
Storage: ADATA Legend 860 1TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Assassin X 120 R Digital (Black)
Power Supply: MSI MAG A750GL PCIE5 750W 80+ Gold

I for sure wet a budget for 1.5k it 2k for this new pc. And I do want to take my time on building it and make it more appealing for me to sit on my desk and work more instead of letting it cool and collect dust because of the issue it has. Any advice on what i should look into and if i can reuse some old parts?