P55-UD6 socket burn

[Benji Tshi]

Hi guys,

Yesterday, i was overclocking a P55A-UD7 with my friends. The Foxconn socket burned, and the cpu also, on the top of the socket like Massman with his UD6. It was a retail 670. The "funny" thing is that CPU and Mobo were still working, because we just unplugged it when the work was done, not because it dies. So we noticed the cpu was burned, but we didn't pay atention to the socket. Then i plugged a ES 661 and played couple of hours. When i removed it, my cpu was allright, mainboard also, except about 20 pins which were burned.

So not only quad core or 8 thread cpu are burning on Gigabyte Foxconne sockets...Did someone have any information about this failure ? I can't read the eleven pages

[madmax999]

Then i plugged a ES 661 and played couple of hours. When i removed it, my cpu was allright, mainboard also, except about 20 pins which were burned.

So basically we can just remove these pins right from the start (when the mobo is new) and maybe there won't be problems anymore after that?