[caraffle]

Man I hate those connectors. I don't have a problem soldering most things down to 0.4mm pitch & 0402 components without magnification, but these connectors love to bridge. Either lay down a (thin!) bead of solder paste, or try drag soldering (I prefer this).

With LVDS, make sure to keep tracks short,have some impedance control (doesn't need to be super strict), and match trace lengths. One issue I had before was a clock (90Mhz I think) that wasn't quite in sync. Ended up ordering a new board with a 8 channel inverter, and snaking the clock through a few of the the gates to get a slight delay.