How big of a capacitor to use in my cpu socket?
Forget about it.
Those are ceramic capacitors and inductors used for decoupling and filtering. They're of various capacitance values and technical properties, because each one reacts differently and filters specific parts of the power going into the cpu through those pins.
So the ceramic capacitors may be a mix of 10nF , 47nF, 0.1uF, 1uF ... maybe even 10uF or 22uF but just the capacitance is not enough there... even though the voltages a cpu sees are less than 2-3v, the manufacturer will use ceramics from specific series for their mechanical and electrical properties .. for example they may use 10nF rated for 10v because it's the only one in 0205 footprint, and they may use 47nF in 0402 footprint because it had to be rated for 16v at least, to reach some technical specs.
There is some leeway but basically those capacitors are important for cpu stability, without the proper ones you could get memory errors, errors when transferring data between cpu and pci-e slots (so you may not get cpu crashes, but could get lots of pci-e errors which could crash game or slow down game)
... and replacing the socket .... highly unlikely without good equipment
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