From what I'm reading, this seems to be a problem with both socket types 1156 and 1366. None of you are considering that Intel may be at fault here partly in the materials they're using on their processors. Pads being ripped off the chips is extremely disturbing considering that this has never happened to me even when I have ripped out inadvertently pinned chips while the socket was still locked (chip glued to heatsink with dried paste).
I used to be devoted to AMD, recently I've taken a keen interest in Intel's stuff because of lack of true SSE4 with AMD's stuff, but now I have to strongly consider getting an AMD platform for my new rig.
No one has reported any sort of problem like this with their pin schema.
In general I think Intel's idea of offloading the responsibility of damaged CPUs to the motherboard manufacturer by making the chips pinless was a low blow to the already struggling PC motherboard industry. Abit is already basically non-existent (Yes, I'm aware that they shot themselves in the foot with substandard capacitors) and now there is this debacle.
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