Is this CPU socket normal?

[KieranFretwell]

I am browsing Ebay for a new motherboard so i can go SLI and i came across this board (http://goo.gl/Yd0mMM) Looking at the retention arm and stuff it sorta looks burnt (in the first and second pics) what do you guys think? it just looks off to me. I don't know if this board comes like that new.. 

[Tim Drake]

It's the brown reflecting..

[stconquest]

I am browsing Ebay for a new motherboard so i can go SLI and i came across this board (http://goo.gl/Yd0mMM) Looking at the retention arm and stuff it sorta looks burnt (in the first and second pics) what do you guys think? it just looks off to me. I don't know if this board comes like that new.. 

 

Yeah that looks like someone took a torch to it.  Why would you post the pic with a socket cover on?  ...hmmmm.  Oh there are more pics =/.

[Duskie]

Looks alright to me.

[KieranFretwell]

It's the brown reflecting..

I don't know about that, some parts of it are blue like it had been heated up. 

[KieranFretwell]

 

Looks alright to me.

Not the socket as in the pins etc i meant more of the bracket.. 

[SMR]

Normally you need a hell lot of temperature over a long period of time to make metal go blueish. The mobo seems in decent shape for a board that have been heated up so much.

[SpaceNugget]

there is zero chance that bluing happened by anything overheating on the motherboard. its probably a reflection or an intentional thing. The google tells me that mild steel blues at over 330 degrees Celsius, the fiberglass would be a pile of ash at 330. or at the very least the solder mask would be completely black.

[KenJimmY]

metal looks fishy indeed , the board looks fine tho

[flibberdipper]

It's fine.

[Sam Z Man]

I don't know about that, some parts of it are blue like it had been heated up. 

 

You need an oxygen enriched flame to extract the carbon of steel to the surface to make it blue.