ATX Mobo sockets... a rant.

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Originally Posted by FIREWALL

I'm a bit confused here. Every mobo I've ever had, the socket had HOLES and the CPU had all the little pins.

Starting with LGA775, all Intel sockets have it the other way around; the fragile pins are in the socket, the CPU has just contact-pads.

I remember placing a chip in this board for the first time; scary as hell. Requires quite a bit of force, for something so fragile, to get the clamp down that holds the CPU in place.