[grey.clock]

Now that the dust has settled abit on the whole core i5 socket burn issue, should I be concerned about the rig I have posted in my sig? I do overclock the little sucker with the stock HSF, and have new brackets for my mugen-2 in the mail right now, but I am wondering how concerned I should be about socket burn on it. I emailed gigabyte tech support about being worried of socket burn and they responded (a week later) that there is no problem with socket burn on their motherboards.

I do not plan on doing anything more extreme then what a mugen-2 can handle (no watercooling or dry ice setups for me). Yes I understand there is ALWAYS a risk when overclocking, but normally one can be careful and not destroy their hardware. Is this whole socket burn a 100% certainty?

 

[mrfajita]

As far as I know, the socket burn issue was with Foxconn sockets, which Gigabyte among a few other manufacturers do not use (for quality issues, obviously).
Don't quote me on this, and don't go above 5GHz until a few others verify.

 

[JKBenchmarks]

That issue only effects Foxconn-produced sockets for P55 motherboards.

Your motherboard is fine.

 

[Raul-7]

Gigabyte definitely uses Foxconn sockets including on the P55A series. Only EVGA uses LOTES/Tyco retention/sockets with a high consistentency.

Don't lose sleep over the issue, at 3.2GHz you're fine.

 

[grey.clock]

Quote:

Originally Posted by JKBenchmarks That issue only effects Foxconn-produced sockets for P55 motherboards. Your motherboard is fine.

Thanks for the input, but I read this article about the various motherboards and it lists gigabyte as originally using foxconn, and only switching over to the lotus for the higher end ones. I do know that gigabyte has a p55-A version of their motherboards now and I presumed this was the revised one with a lotus socket.

From AnandTech: http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3671
Gigabyte GA-P55- UD6

The GA-P55-UD6 from Gigabyte was on a level playing field with the ASUS ROG for the most part in general performance and extreme overclocking results. It did trail the other boards in the 8-thread CPU tests, but showed second place performance everywhere else. The UD6 handled cold temperatures as well as the E657, but required us to shut the PSU off periodically between reboots in order for the board to properly repost.

Our test sample arrived with the revised Foxconn socket and managed to survive the onslaught of benchmarks without a problem. We understand that Gigabyte has moved production over to LOTES based sockets for their higher end boards, so expect to see these showing up in the retail channels shortly.

 

[mrfajita]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Raul-7 Gigabyte definitely uses Foxconn sockets including on the P55A series. Only EVGA uses LOTES/Tyco retention/sockets with a high consistentency. Don't lose sleep over the issue, at 3.2GHz you're fine.

ONLY? Not sure about the P55 boards, but my El Cheapo ASRock G31M-S 775 socket is a Tyco.

 

[sLowEnd]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Raul-7 Gigabyte definitely uses Foxconn sockets including on the P55A series. Only EVGA uses LOTES/Tyco retention/sockets with a high consistentency.

What about DFI?

 

[grey.clock]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Raul-7 Gigabyte definitely uses Foxconn sockets including on the P55A series. Only EVGA uses LOTES/Tyco retention/sockets with a high consistentency. Don't lose sleep over the issue, at 3.2GHz you're fine.

Well I am only at 3.2ghz because I am currently using a stock cooler, I was hoping to go as high as I could with my mugen-2 when I get my new brackets....

 

[tNok85]

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrfajita ONLY? Not sure about the P55 boards, but my El Cheapo ASRock G31M-S 775 socket is a Tyco.

He said "with a high consistentency", not ONLY EVGA EVER!

 

[Raul-7]

Quote:

Originally Posted by grey.clock Thanks for the input, but I read this article about the various motherboards and it lists gigabyte as originally using foxconn, and only switching over to the lotus for the higher end ones. I do know that gigabyte has a p55-A version of their motherboards now and I presumed this was the revised one with a lotus socket. From AnandTech: http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3671 Gigabyte GA-P55- UD6 The GA-P55-UD6 from Gigabyte was on a level playing field with the ASUS ROG for the most part in general performance and extreme overclocking results. It did trail the other boards in the 8-thread CPU tests, but showed second place performance everywhere else. The UD6 handled cold temperatures as well as the E657, but required us to shut the PSU off periodically between reboots in order for the board to properly repost. Our test sample arrived with the revised Foxconn socket and managed to survive the onslaught of benchmarks without a problem. We understand that Gigabyte has moved production over to LOTES based sockets for their higher end boards, so expect to see these showing up in the retail channels shortly.

Only the retention bracket is LOTES.

Original thread: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=239344

 

[grey.clock]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Raul-7 Only the retention bracket is LOTES. Original thread: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=239344

So it looks like the plastic composite was the problem with the sockets, which foxconn has improved. I still am left wondering if I am going to be screwing myself over trying to overclock this setup because no one really mentions if this affects the UD3R or not. Any chance that gigabyte would exchange the board I have or are they simply letting all the early adapters destroy their hardware?