Hi,
First of all, my new machine seems to be running fine, but discovered one thing today that I was a bit worried about so thought I'd see what you guys thought as I'm sure I saw a similar thread a while ago.
Specs are:
i7 860
ASUS P7P55D
4GB Corsair XMS3
Nvidia 8800GT 512mb
Corsair VX450
Basically I got a new cooler today to replace the stock one, a Corsair H-50.
When i removed the chip to clean off all the old gunk i noticed the contacts on the bottom, and it seems like they don't line up with the pins.
Machine seems fine aside from this, if anyone has a similar computer I'd be interested to know of any benchmarks (CPU) I can run to see if we're getting something similar...
I've attached some photos, thumbnails link through to full res images (about 3mb each), I've taken a few of the chip, rotating it around, as it was difficult getting reflections correct so you can see the dots.
What are you guys thoughts? nothing to worry about?
Socket:
01

02

03

Chip:
04 - bottom and bottom right seem fine, top left doubled up? and top right seems a mess!

05

06 - shows top right corner in more detail...

First of all, my new machine seems to be running fine, but discovered one thing today that I was a bit worried about so thought I'd see what you guys thought as I'm sure I saw a similar thread a while ago.
Specs are:
i7 860
ASUS P7P55D
4GB Corsair XMS3
Nvidia 8800GT 512mb
Corsair VX450
Basically I got a new cooler today to replace the stock one, a Corsair H-50.
When i removed the chip to clean off all the old gunk i noticed the contacts on the bottom, and it seems like they don't line up with the pins.
Machine seems fine aside from this, if anyone has a similar computer I'd be interested to know of any benchmarks (CPU) I can run to see if we're getting something similar...
I've attached some photos, thumbnails link through to full res images (about 3mb each), I've taken a few of the chip, rotating it around, as it was difficult getting reflections correct so you can see the dots.
What are you guys thoughts? nothing to worry about?
Socket:
01

02

03

Chip:
04 - bottom and bottom right seem fine, top left doubled up? and top right seems a mess!

05

06 - shows top right corner in more detail...
