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CPU Pins not lining up? Please help

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Stupot_

Stupot_

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Hi,

First of all, my new machine seems to be running fine, but discovered one thing today that I was a bit worried about so thought I'd see what you guys thought as I'm sure I saw a similar thread a while ago.

Specs are:
i7 860
ASUS P7P55D
4GB Corsair XMS3
Nvidia 8800GT 512mb
Corsair VX450

Basically I got a new cooler today to replace the stock one, a Corsair H-50.
When i removed the chip to clean off all the old gunk i noticed the contacts on the bottom, and it seems like they don't line up with the pins.

Machine seems fine aside from this, if anyone has a similar computer I'd be interested to know of any benchmarks (CPU) I can run to see if we're getting something similar...


I've attached some photos, thumbnails link through to full res images (about 3mb each), I've taken a few of the chip, rotating it around, as it was difficult getting reflections correct so you can see the dots.


What are you guys thoughts? nothing to worry about?


Socket:

01


02


03



Chip:

04 - bottom and bottom right seem fine, top left doubled up? and top right seems a mess!


05


06 - shows top right corner in more detail...
 
I belive you will have to match up the "notches" on the CPU to the socket. if you don't than well you wouldn't be able to put the metal bracket down
 
For goodness sake be careful too. Don't want to bend those pins, it = instant warranty void.

See the two half circle notches on the side of the chip? Line them up with the two corresponding bits on the socket and you should be good to go.
 
The faint scuff marks in the center of the pads is where they've made contact with the socket pins. The shiny and obvious "pin pricks" are there from new afaik.
 
amg and alex, cheers for reply but I'm not a complete tool! It was in the right way round, and has been working fine for the last couple of months.

Dinkas, that's interesting, is anyone else able to confirm whether the 'pin pricks' are there from new? Looking closer... the pins on the socket seem to all be at an angle, which would explain scuff marks...
 
Thanks Dinkas, that's good to know! I was just worried because I remember another similar thread and the blame was being put on dodgy sockets i think...
 
Sorry, we get a lot of noob questions here, twas a knee-jerk response. It's normal for the pins/contacts to look worn once they've been used once.
 
Sorry I thought you was coming from another platform *cough* AMD I throught that when I changed over.

they do get worn after being used once
 
Acutally I would guess this is not a foxconn socket, as the are a complete set of "light scuffs" in the centre of every pad.. which is exactly what your after. The light scuff pattern is pretty much identical to the markes made by the Lotes socket (which is a good thing)

The pin marks, and double contacts are made during manufacture and testing, and are nothing to worry about.
 
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