Hmm...I have seen this thread only now. Of course, I do not have the high electronics knowledge that some of the speakers in this thread have, but I can tell you guys what I got from a mechanical point of view, related to the pin fragility issue.

So when I first tested the UD6 under cold, I just mounted my pot in the "regular" manner, with quite some tension on the screws. It didn't boot up, and I had to seriously loosen the screws in order for the board to boot. I have played with the same thing on Asus and MSI boards as well, and none of them will boot if the pot is to tighly fit on the CPU. So I do not know about the shape of the pins and the current (as hipro explained it in this thread), but I am really sure that this new socket is also very flimsy from a mechanical point of view.