new LGA775 socket design for Pentium-5 CPU

[Apoptosis]

I missed this one over the weekend at the end of last week, but saw it today when someone e-mailed asking if I had it yet. I don't have it, but looks pretty nifty!

Sun King Technology (SKT) a Taiwan CPU socket designer and manufacturer for over 10 years announced a new LGA775 socket design on March 15 for use with Intel CPUs.

The newly developed LGA775 socket has patented terminals and built-in retractable spring cover that provides complete bent-pin protection for the P5 CPU architecture. The four-screw metal supporting bracket mounted on the reverse side of PC board can resolve the existing board bending (bowing) issue during the board design phase, and assure accurate pressure contact and alignment to the circuit pad directly, while the CPU is driven into the “ lock ” position by the lever loading mechanism.

In addition, the new LGA775 socket design focuses on overcoming existing bent-pin issues, which will help to answer the return materials authorization (RMA) issues among PC makers. The maintenance free main body housing is fully replaceable by PC service centers.

Here is the take home message for our readers:
"The maintenance free main body housing is fully replaceable by PC service centers."

Now mobo makers wont have to junk any boards just because the pins are beyond repair!

Source: Digitimes

[infinitevalence]

Now that is cool, had something like this been used in the mobo's i was looking at this weekend i would have gotten a few LGA boards

[teqguy]

Any indication on how much extra this is going to cost?

Springs are investments.

[infinitevalence]

Its not avalible like that, the product is marketed to manufactuers making motherboards as a replacement for the existing LGA 775 socket. The idea was to make it stronger thats all.

[teqguy]

Obviously...

But I'm not looking at it from a consumer standpoint, but rather someone with some insight into the industry.