Imagine the pins on a processor socket as lanes on a highway ... For example, when Intel introduced the LGA 1700 socket, it supported DDR5 memory and PCIe 5.0, both of which were impossible ...

Each of the Cooler legs sits about 1mm above the fitted CPU. NO amounf of force can make the clip legs engage in the motherboard holes without destroying the LGA socket pins. If you try and make ...