Pro/Semi-Pro System Builders: more LGA or PGA issues?

[plonk420]

please only answer if you build systems as a part time job at the least (or have built more than a dozen systems of each), but...

have you had more issues with bent (or broken?) pins on a PGA (older P4, Athlon XP/64, Phenom (and 386, 486, Pentium)) setup? or issues with the LGA socket setup (bent connectors, a la Anand's Mac Pro Nehalem replacement article)?

of the times you had PGA issues, how many times were they not fixable? (and how many times did the CPU sellers give you issues replacing the CPU?)

 

[faxon]

of the times i have had issues with bent PGA pins, i was almost always able to fix them with a disposable razor blade (the kind you use to check if your CPU needs lapping, and for spreading thermal grease). the only time i wasnt ever able to was if the pin was bent in the middle somewhere. i havent ever had an LGA socket fail me in the manner that anand's mac pro socket did, though all the ones i have worked with also had a retention bracket to put just the right amount of pressure on the CPU in the socket. even with a pressure mod for my Megahalems i havent had any issues, though that might be in part due to the durability of my gigabyte board

ed: i should note the only time i have ever even bent a pin on a PGA CPU was because i did a shitty job of protecting the pins when i was lapping it, and that only happened once, to an athlon 64 4000+, which i had just moved to second tier duties, in 2008, lol