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To: ptanner who wrote (118264)	4/3/2004 9:55:49 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

PT, I have had CPUs with bent pins, and they were easy to fix. The pins on the picture look a little more tricky. You may be right about Intel shifting risk to the mobo makers. It would make more sense to me to continue the present configuration of the pins being on the mobo, since it is much more likely that people will be upgrading CPU than upgrading a motherboard while keeping the same CPU. Joe

To: ptanner who wrote (118264)	4/3/2004 10:27:04 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re; how likely can the pin simply be rebent to the proper alignment? It was routine to have to straighten pins in the days before ZIF sockets (they were frequently bent in the process of prying the chip out of the socket). The issue is only partly where the pins are, it's also the fact that current sockets make it easy to cleanly insert the CPU into a loose fitting socket, then a lever clamps the connections tight. The CPU socket will actually straighten moderately bent pins. LGA requires a force-fit insertion of the CPU (aided by the socket's hold down clip) - a process that is prone to error and damage because force must be coupled with perfect alignment, and the alignment of the pins can't be verified prior to power application - at which point the chip either fries or it doesn't.