Solid warning, but it is good to know that the option exists. I swapped new sockets into mine. If someone is having their board professionally reworked they can have this done at the same time.
I'd been having a devil of a time trying to get my IIci to interface well with my office network. The issue is that our office is all 2.5G to the desktop and even if we set the switches to 10/half the Asante and DaynaPort Nubus cards simply would not link up. We tried using a Farallon Starlet...