Click over to AnandTech and take a very close look at the first picture in this article.  You might not notice the one pad on the first picture until you look at the second one where the damage is much more obvious.  Through extreme overclocking, headed towards the 5GHz mark and over, they have damaged several boards and processors.  You probably won’t see this on air cooling as the power draw required for those kind of overclocks tends to involve liquids that are more usually gases.  It is worth noting that the P55 socket has two makers currently and only one has been free of contact problems between its pins and the CPUs pads. 

Remember to check your motherboard revision number, capacitor maker, etc … and now the socket manufacturer can be added to that list as well.

“Normally we do not worry too much about mishaps during extreme overclocking testing as they are typically caused by factors outside of the supplier’s control. The overriding concern is that we have damaged every motherboard in our possession for the P55 overclocking (extreme) shootout as well as two very expensive i7/870 processors. These problems are the cause of a single component and are repeatable. As such, we thought we would provide details on current problems and will provide an update once all of the motherboard manufacturers affected have had a chance to properly respond.”

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