Re: [H] New Intel 775 Pin Motherboards

[Greg Sevart]

I think it is harder to bend pins that are on the motherboard. With the 
pins on the CPU it can easily get bumped or dropped on its way from the 
box to the socket. Also it is easy for your fingers to bend the pins as 
you are holding the CPU if you are not extremely careful and conscious of 
how close they are to the edges you are holding. The motherboard (and CPU) 
have plastic protective covers. You do not remove the pins cover from the 
motherboard until you are ready to install the CPU. Just as ZIF sockets 
means zero insertion force, you use no more than the force of gravity to 
pull the CPU down into a recess with 4 walls to align it and keep it in 
proper alignment. The CPU has a gold color triangle for proper 
orientation. I feel that if you professionally install the CPU with the 
same attention to detail that you install CPU's into ZIF sockets, it is 
actually easier.


Then you haven't used it enough. While it may seem as though the pins should 
be harder to bend, in reality, they bend extremely easily, and you WILL 
DESTROY your socket after a few insertions REGARDLESS of how much care you 
take. Read around the web--people that have installed thousands of 
processors are finding LGA775 sockets rarely live for more than a handful of 
insertion cycles.

Greg