P55-UD6 socket burn

[Raja@ASUS]

since its the edge of the socket it could very well be insulation... you do use the socket metal thing to clamp down the cpu, right? its leg is right next to those pins, and condensation will form on that metal and then possibly run down into the socket, bam... im not convinced thats what happended, but if you guys had the same thing happen at the same location of the socket... thats not a coincidence... and i doubt vcore is any diferent on those pins then on other vcore and vss pins... so i dont think its some electrical anomally that causes this...

and yeah, modern cpus are really beefy on vcore pins, vtt is their achilles heel, on vcore pins you can roast them for a while before they give up, the only nehalem cpu i heard of that died from vcore for sure was in foxconns labs and it was with 2.4v on air
instant shutdown and dead...

yeah mine was clamped properly. I had thought about non contacting pins but that can't be right as only one pin has gone on mine while the surrounding ones are blemish free (no visibly bent pins either). I will try to take a macro pic if I can, there is very little pad left. Looks like some i5 CPU's can have issues when pushed. Mine was not even pushed that hard, I just about got it to 4.8. No moisture anywhere as the whole socket and CPU were completely sealed from the air with eraser. Just one of those things.