Congratulations on your build, I'm sure it will give you many, many hours of great gaming.
Sorry about your damaged 8350. I remember when I build my first PC that the guy at the store where I bought my mobo and CPU told me that they could put the CPU on the socket for me. I actually thought about it for a sec, but I said no. I was like "If I'm building my PC, I'm building it, not anyone else. Even if that meant damaging something." Luckily everything went fine.
But I have to make it note. You went with the RED team (AMD) and choosed a RED case... and then you went with a blue motherboard?! Silly you, you should have gone with a Red/Black ASUS' Republic of Gamers mobo and red RAM sticks (Kingston or G.Skill) to make the build match.
Please excuse my bad English.
Former gaming PC: i5-4670k@stock (for now), 16Gb RAM 1600 MHz and a GTX 1070
Current gaming PC: R5-7600, 32GB RAM 6000MT/s (CL30) and a RX 9060XT 16GB
Steam / Live / NNID : jonxiquet Add me if you want, but I'm a single player gamer.
