I didn't pull the socket its still attached to the board with broken pins,that pic above is of the spare new cpu socket ready to bo soldered onto the...
i7 870 (4.08GHz) / Crosair H70
4 x 2GB G. Skill DDR3 2200MHz CL7-10-10-26
Gigabyte P55A-UD6
2 x MSI HD5870 Lightning II
4 x OCZ Vertex2 60GB in RAID 0 (OS)
1 x VelociRaptor SATA3 6GB/s 600GB (games)
1 x WD BLACK SATA2 2TB (storage)
Crosair AX1200 power
LG 8X Blu Ray rewriter
Plextor 24X DVD rewriter
Lian Li PC-60FNW
Lamptron TOUCH fan controller / Noiseblocker PK-3 / 2 x Xigmatek CLF-F1454