Very cool 
Might be worth looking up the function of each pin to see how critical they are.
Might be worth looking up the function of each pin to see how critical they are. I did. I looked at an Intel datasheet for the 1155 pinout, and it looks like the broken pin is for one of the DMI_RX sets, which is supposedly for communication with the PCH. The link to to PCH has four lanes so hopefully it just disabled one.