Morgneto,
It could be a bent pin, and that may not be covered in your warranty. I have seen people mention taking their boards to a jeweler to have the pins straightened, I have never done this but it sounds logical to me.
I just built a PC with a Maximus VII Gene, I dropped the CPU and bent several pins one about where you are referring and a couple below that, I took a chance and used a magnifying glass and knife tip and tried straightening them myself, at first I thought I was successful as it booted fine, loaded OS and everything appeared good, then I installed a GPU and found poor GPU performance and seen it was reported as pcieX2, not X16. I was ready to throw the board out as I damaged the pins but I tried one more time with magnifying glass and knife tip and was successful, GPU is now at pcieX16 and fully tested every thing, including overclock to 5.0GHZ on water cooling. My plan is to never remove the CPU from the socket again.
It could be a bent pin, and that may not be covered in your warranty. I have seen people mention taking their boards to a jeweler to have the pins straightened, I have never done this but it sounds logical to me.
I just built a PC with a Maximus VII Gene, I dropped the CPU and bent several pins one about where you are referring and a couple below that, I took a chance and used a magnifying glass and knife tip and tried straightening them myself, at first I thought I was successful as it booted fine, loaded OS and everything appeared good, then I installed a GPU and found poor GPU performance and seen it was reported as pcieX2, not X16. I was ready to throw the board out as I damaged the pins but I tried one more time with magnifying glass and knife tip and was successful, GPU is now at pcieX16 and fully tested every thing, including overclock to 5.0GHZ on water cooling. My plan is to never remove the CPU from the socket again.
