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- Jan 10, 2001
OK, I ordered a new mobo and an I5 4690. I got them both on the third. I installed the mobo and cpu in my case and no boot. After disassembling everything I noticed that there was obvious damage to the socket bending some of the pins. Here is a post about the issue. After RMA'ing the mobo to Gigabyte I was getting my stuff together in one place and looked at the CPU. What I see is that the sides of the CPU are indented? Is this normal? Because I am new to Intel, I can't tell if the indentions are supposed to happen by the retention bracket. It does not make sense, to me anyway, that I had damaged the socket pins by simply installing the CPU and yet the retention bracket made deep dents in the in the sides of the CPU. What do you think?