the pins are orientated in a 45 degree angle.
I asked Dr. Who why?
Why put the pins on the board and not the cpu like it was in the old days.
CPU bent pin fixes were 10x easier to fix with a mechanical pencil then a bent pin on a board.
The way the cpu's are made now, the density in which contact is made, makes it impossible to put pins on the cpu.
He said the current which is required will not support pins on the cpu.
(i went uhh.. then how does AMD do it?)
Anyhow.. 1155 pins on an intel CPU. and 1366 on the larger one, with a 2011 pin matrix on the last one.
I kinda understood him when i saw how much current a gulftown could pull on the socket.
Lets say just say when a gulftown is pulling 250W on the socket @ 1.3vcore that = 192amps which need to be fed into that socket though those tiny pins.
So yes.. i kinda understood what he was going on about.
Clamping down made hte most horrible screeching metal-on-metal noise imaginable. It seemed like I was going to crush the thing every single time. I kept going back to see if it was aligned properly and then eventually I just bit the bullet and clamped it, noise and all. It worked fine, but I'm wondering, is that normal?
It was a Gigabyte board BTW.
Its pins digging into a new socket.
Dont worry, it happens on very very new boards..
There is nothing to be worried about.
You got a thick metal plate under the socket from warping it, or bending it out of shape.
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