I doubt it was nothing more than a QC issue for the socket 1156 sockets made by Foxconn. A lot of manufactures use Foxconn for their 1366 sockets and we haven't seen the same issue. Every manufacture has had issues with QC at one time or another, including EVGA, but it will be interesting to see how the manufactures handle this since it only seems to happen under extreme cooling, which I doubt is covered under the normal manufacture warranty.