Why are CPU pins so fragile and why haven’t they been designed to make the pins hard to deform?
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CPUs have a lot more than just the calculation stuff inside them. They also connect to most (if not all) the PCI-E slots, and typically at least 2 RAM sticks. The number of pins involved is huge, and it needs to be that way.
So, yeah, each one is kinda small and fragile.
The manufacturers know this. CPUs ship in a protective case, and if the motherboard has pins there is a cover on the board itself protecting its pins. Either one should only be exposed for the brief moment you open it up for installation, and it is assumed people know what they are doing. In fact motherboards won’t be accepted for repair/RMA unless it it shipped back with that cover in place, just in case.
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