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Discolored pin contacts?

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TheFoo

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I bought a processor recently that had some discoloring of some pin contacts, while looking for processors on ebay I noticed another with similar discoloration.

I guess I'm just wondering if this is heat related, voltage, or just normal?

The darker area on mid-left side.

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Maybe someone touched it? The oils on peoples skin will discolor metal.
 
I'd guess it's probably just some skin oil. Try cleaning with 99% isopropyl and see if it clears up.
 
I noticed this on my CPU too, don't know why but yeah I would think a fingerprint tarnished it a bit or something. Thing is in the back of my mind I thought these were gold contacts and gold doesn't tarnish...
 
i wouldnt be concerned about the mid-left, that is probably just regular tarnish as people said. what i was expecting to see from the thread title was something like the pad 9 rows up and 12 from the right side. that one has some good discoloration. i had a core2 e6600 that had a few pads like that (or even worse), i think it was from some condensation that may have built up when i was playing with some exotic cooling methods. the CPU still runs fine to this day, so i dont think its a huge problem.
 
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