Quote Originally Posted by hipro5 View Post
IF you take a CLOSER look at the photos the guys have uploaded, you will see that there was NO oxidation at ALL.....
Why?
Because those pins would have taken a white/green colour and the plastic around them would have been somehow white....
I can see a VERY CLEAN socket and golden pins BUT melted plastic....
PLUS the pins where "down" NOT only from pressure but they just lost their "flexibility" and shape due to 2 reasons:
a. BAD metal material (for flexibility) and
b. TOO much current for their "shape" and their material so when the current was rolling through them, the pins started to get hitted much and - maybe - they got RED from the temperature and they have melted the plastic of the socket...
So for me it's not Gigabyte or any Gigabyte’s fault. It's the company that has made them and shells these sockets to mobo manufacturers....

Guys what make is that socket?...

P.S. @Drwho: Would Intel RMA such a CPU now or not?....and IF NOT, whom these guys would blame if they don't get their money back that have paid (CPU and mobo) WORKING for a month to pay for them? (regular guys that are from "poor countries") - if you can understand what I'm talking about?
For SURE an employee in the computer shop, will NOT RMA this CPU and this Mobo with bended/melted socket/pins...
foxconn?