stamasd wrote:No need to desolder anything. You can do the mod on the slocket without desoldering. Use enameled wire of a small diameter (28 gauge or finer) on top of the socket, and for the pins that need to be insulated you can enlarge the socket holes with a small dremel bit, then slide insulating sleeves (made from stripping appropriate lengths of it from insulated wire) over the pins of the CPU before putting it in the slocket.
I've done it succesfully back in the day. I'd post pictures but I don't know where that modded slocket is in my pile of stuff. I ended up running a 1.2GHz Celeron on an Abit BH6.
Done the same thing, works perfectly. Posted about it (with pics) here. Also did the same mod to a couple of MSI MS-6905 Master slotkets later. Can recommend those, since they've got voltage clamp jumpers. Just make sure to get one of the later revisions with combinations for voltages < 1.8V if you're gonna use it with Tualatins.
The enlarging of holes and insulating of pins is kind of fiddly though, the next time I do it, I'm gonna try simply doing a bridge and cutting the trace going from AK4 to the edge connector instead.