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by frankharv 2930 days ago
Massive pain is an undestatement. Fixing a socket pin with a that small of a package size and 1151 pins is nearly impossible.

Good luck. You better have a loop or magnifier.

I buy Intel Mobile CPU boards for exactly this reason. Pins. I have not bent a single one in years. The Notebook CPU's are so thermally efficient it is a real selling point to me.