Quote Originally Posted by Monstru View Post
Hmm...I have seen this thread only now. Of course, I do not have the high electronics knowledge that some of the speakers in this thread have, but I can tell you guys what I got from a mechanical point of view, related to the pin fragility issue.

So when I first tested the UD6 under cold, I just mounted my pot in the "regular" manner, with quite some tension on the screws. It didn't boot up, and I had to seriously loosen the screws in order for the board to boot. I have played with the same thing on Asus and MSI boards as well, and none of them will boot if the pot is to tighly fit on the CPU. So I do not know about the shape of the pins and the current (as hipro explained it in this thread), but I am really sure that this new socket is also very flimsy from a mechanical point of view.
You might be on to something there with how tight the pot is screwed on. I was under Cascade and the thing was acting like a real dog, its a ES chip so I didnt expect much. Another problem is the eraser reallys gets into this socket badly and could be pushing the chip in strange ways. I dont mean inside the socket, just the outside areas, down in the IHS etc.

No socket burn with 1.75 vcore and 1.5vtt combos and my chip shows no signs of damage on the contact side.