Quote Originally Posted by saaya View Post
well does the ud6 use a special socket version other boards dont use?
i doubt gigabytes ud6 is the only board using the same version of this socket, so im not convinced its the socket...
im not sure it has anything to do with the board either... couldnt it just be that, since this happened at the edge of the cpus, they had a fingerprint on them, possible with thermal grease so there was a thin layer of grease on it, preventing good contact and then resulting in higher resistance, more heat, even higher resistance, and then the plastic melted? the area this happened is exactly the part where i at least always hold the cpus before placing them into the socket... and its really easy getting a finger print or a little thermal paste on the back of the cpu and onto the pads... even if you wipe it off theres still a thin layer of fat or thermal grease there...

and if the contact area of the pins and pads is small, the chance of having a bad contact is even higher... so maybe its indeed a problem of the pins and socket, like hipro suggests... in combination with not 100% clean pads?
or dust or lint in the air landing in the open socket..

i've never liked LGA sockets.