Abstract: A boardlock for holding a socket to a circuit board comprises an integral body including a main beam, a socket retention section adapted to self-retain to the socket, and a circuit board retention section engageable in a hole in the circuit board. The circuit board retention section is substantially flat and, together with at least the main beam, defines a plane. The circuit board retention section includes a pair of spaced apart legs extending in the plane from the main beam to a common remote end defined by a tie bar. The legs are dimensioned to extend beyond an exit of the hole at a far side of the circuit board. Portions of the legs are divergently angled as they extend to a widest dimension of the circuit board retention section. The widest dimension is chosen to be wider than a widest dimension of the hole exit in the circuit board, and to be spaced from the main beam by a distance greater than a thickness of the circuit board at a periphery of the hole exit.