[Jaymoss]

Originally Posted by Taf

You will soon be able to unpucker as land grid array (LGA) takes over.

By Eric Gaba (Sting - fr:Sting) - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6283778

SKT 1700 is LGA. You drop a cpu on it and there will be a number of bent pins and a nightmare to straighten. Put the CPU in wrong and latch it same result.

Do not get me wrong so far I have never broken a CPU or Socket but I pucker when I install one and when I first hit the power button hahaha