  Intel partners reveal plans for new processor socket designs
Comments     Threshold   please change your socket design! By
Etern205 on 11/28/2007 10:47:59 PM , Rating: 2 During the days
when pins we're located on the processor, users are advised to
handle them with great care because if a pin is bent (it's
really hard to straighten it back out even with the lead pencil
trick) or broken off, then your toast.  When the LGA cpus came
out I was extremely happy that the cpu became pin-less, but I
had never thought that the pins are now built into the socket.
And here lies the same exact problem only this time it's the
other way around. This I find it annoying because lets say you
got a board online and when it arrived you notice there is a
bent or damage pin on the socket. Now when you try to return it,
the company may denied it because they think all of their
products shipped out are free of defects and you physically
damaged it yourself.  Since Intel is coming out with a new
socket then it would be