The damage doesn’t need to be that hardcore as you can just get pins getting sheared off from dropping a laptop while it’s plugged in. Still needs a port replacement that is a pain in the ass in my experience so not suited as a first hot air project.

I just setup a 192GB 14900K workstation and it was pretty straightforward to get going compared to AMD by just installing the RAM and turning on XMP and that’s it.

5400MT/s seems stable from 80 hours of SAT but from my point of view, even 5200MT/s is a huge improvement over the 3600MT/s Intel and AMD spec for max capacity configurations which is what I would get if I settled for a Dell Precision 3660.