----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Sevart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Hardware List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: [H] New Intel 775 Pin Motherboards
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
Thanks for the tip. This tip will help many OEM's etc. cut back on the
number of bare bones units they build up and other procedures that set up
the scenario for having to change a CPU.
With the pins on the CPU I still avoided as many CPU changes as possible.
Most of my CPU changes were caused by changing motherboards, to using the
pins more than once is a mute issue in these changes.
If the life of the pins is 3 CPU installations, I will be ok. Over 90% of my
units never experience one CPU change unless I am installing a new
motherboard.
It seems you agree that Intel really pulled a slick trick this time.
Chuck
