Quote Originally Posted by jmke View Post
unless you plan to cool with dry ice, LN2, phase change and want to overvolt the CPU, I wouldn't worry about this issue
and even in those cases, recent revisions have no more issues with the socket...
Or they watercool and plan to run sustained overclocks under 24/7 loads. Always going to be old stock out there, and doesn't lend any votes of confidence for Foxconn's "revised" sockets either.

Seen a enough reports of users with memory issues to wonder how many might be from bad CPU pin contact. Very easy to simply blame the kit as bad, yet some people have gone through several...