LGA 1155 Socket Burn: here we go again

[Dainas]

Why did you have to do that? I'm sitting here with half a bag of popcorn, and you just nailed the entertainment

i knew that too, but its not as if foxconn is the only maker of sockets, that would be worth screaming about if true.

[youngpro]

hm just for the record i have tested most h67 and p67 gigabyte boards and have not had any issues,

i think techreaction have jumped into an article without really considering what might be going on here,

the pins that are affected here at vtt/ground areas whereas on the p55 board it was vcore related pins iirc...

lets see if this continues to happen, my bet is this is an isolated incident from a review sample that might have been touched by multiple people...

[miahallen]

i think techreaction have jumped into an article without really considering what might be going on here

What article James? I just made a few observations.

I'm really relieved that after bringing this up there hasn't been a single other incident reported (to my knowledge), which is slowly convincing me this is an isolated case....and that's what I'm hoping for!

But I think it's to early to write it off completely. Like I said in my blog, "Time will tell"

[STEvil]

What article James? I just made a few observations.

I'm really relieved that after bringing this up there hasn't been a single other incident reported (to my knowledge), which is slowly convincing me this is an isolated case....and that's what I'm hoping for!

But I think it's to early to write it off completely. Like I said in my blog, "Time will tell"

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...2&postcount=75

I cant read it due to language barrier but..

[Hornet331]

hm just for the record i have tested most h67 and p67 gigabyte boards and have not had any issues,

i think techreaction have jumped into an article without really considering what might be going on here,

the pins that are affected here at vtt/ground areas whereas on the p55 board it was vcore related pins iirc...

lets see if this continues to happen, my bet is this is an isolated incident from a review sample that might have been touched by multiple people...

Reminds me of the VTT panic back in the wolfdale days.... everyone was screwming like mad, when there where only a view cases and most of them where achived with unrealistic values anyway...

[Chri$ch]

Gigabyte has responded to the reports that its LGA1155 motherboards have a habit of emulating Bonfire Night, by claiming that the company sent the wrong boards out to reviewers.

Gigabyte's US team sent TechReaction two boards: one UD7 (brand new) and one UD4 (with an open box). However, Gigabyte explained that the UD4 was already a faulty component before it was sent out to TechReactor, and shouldn't have left the company's building.

'We suspect that we messed up and sent him a board that we had damaged during our own testing and have sent him another new one,' claims the company.

'Our testing involves overclocking and other various tests to which no motherboard should normally be exposed – we’re basically testing durability, and durability is determined when the board dies.

We’re still waiting to check the board and trace where it has been, to try and figure out how a damaged board was sent as a media sample and prevent this from happening again.'

Gigabyte didn't detail the exact limits of its boards' durability, but it did claim that there were no reports of retail boards exhibiting the same problems.

Source: Bit-Tech

[[XC] gomeler]

Calm down people. The sky isn't falling and your sockets aren't burning up. I know I've been blasting ~1.7vcore through my P67 board/CPU for ~8 weeks and I haven't seen any signs of corrosion or degradation. Considering how many other people have been doing the same thing you'd think we'd have more than one story about this. Doesn't help that the socket wasn't even damaged by the writer of the article but it came from the manufacturer damaged. Case frigging closed.

[Aberration]

Source: Bit-Tech

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[Origin_Unknown]

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haha not the only person who think's like me

[Nikolasz]

I wonder why ppl doing pin power transfer, it will be much better to get in buttom of cpu's + plate and - plate to power up cpu.
Other conection as normal, IO pins to control cpu/mainboard