Your telling me on a new intel platform you bent pins and there easy to bend back?
The funny thing is we hashed it with intel in regards to the pins on the board.
Intel said, would you rather replace the board or the cpu?
To intel's reply since they sell way more cpu's then boards, its a no brainer.
Also the density of pins on the cpu make it impossible for them to be on the cpu end. This is why the pins on the board are in an angle and not straight up.
A lot of research was done in the pins and pin socket, and its not something u want to take tweezers to in repairing unless u have very stable hands, and a good eye.
A bad pin can mean missing ram, and unstable cpu, or a non booting one.