Quote Originally Posted by raju View Post
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.
did you use vaseline inside the cpu socket around the pins? if no then it could still have been insulation... or too much pressure maybe?

the socket pins are bad hipro? what exactly is wrong with them? bad shape or cheap metal?