P55-UD6 socket burn

[Raja@ASUS]

It may help a little (contact point density and width), fundamental issue though is the lack of VCC pads - 33% fewer VCC pins than 1366 with almost the same current draw. The LOTES make it slightly less likely, but don't prevent it from happening as shown in the fist pic I posted all the way back at the start of the thread.


I should add that I received pic of a another CPU/socket (FOxconn) that burned out this morning at around 7-10 amps of draw at 5Ghz running a single thread of 32M. So I really don't know what is safe at this point nor do I believe this is soley a socket related issue, could be soemthing fundamentally weak within the CPU die itself, no idea. Put that together with the reported 4GHz OC from a member above and something deeper may be amiss with some CPU's.