Scary Stuff!!!

[Corasik]

To be honest that looks like damage caused by bad handling or incorrect installation.

The pins in the socket are bent over and that one damaged pad looks like more than just burnt out.

Be careful with your chip and you will be fine.

They are bent over because they have overheated and melted. Try pushing a 13amp plug half way into the socket (just enought get contact), and then try running a kettle on it. It will overheat and catch fire pretty quickly . (Actually PLEASE dont do that!)

The problem they are suggesting is the foxconn socket is acutually making so little contact on about 25% of the pads. This can lead two one of 2 possibilities, high resistance on the pads with poor contact leading to localised overheating, or such poor contact that the CPU has to draw power from pads with decent contact, but overloading them in the process.

Eitherway, its primarily a problem in overclocked systems pulling higher than stock power requirements, but having a non foxconn socket is clearly a good idea if your going to go in for moderate to heavy overclocking.

 

[thebandit]

bah, found time to check mine last night.... foxconn ..... booo

I'm yet to install a CPU in it though so couldn't tell you if I will see the same contact issues others have.
I am thinking however, when I do put a chip in the socket the first thing I'm going to do is take it back out again and look at each pad for the witness marks of a good contact.

Should have trusted my original instincts and gone for a AMD PII955 build instead.....

 

[hardtarget]

Bandit could you post up a before and after picture?

 

[unknownsock]

I'm guessing this can't be a reason to RMA a mobo?

And if your effected by this are you able to RMA your processor?

 

[SirCanealot]

Can't see any reason why you couldn't RMA when it's THEIR fault. But I'll be keeping an eye on this for sure! :O
I got one of the GD65s in the sale from here. Will they be effected too?

 

[beefybarn]

With all these problems affecting these boards i have decided to stick with my AM3 system a bit longer and see what happens.

 

[toon_mad]

and i was told skt 775 was dead, when i eventually get my setup working im hoping no problems above will stand in my way

 

[the wopster]

I want to rma mine but the odds are i would get another foxconn socket back in exchange,as there is only evga and dfi using Lotes sockets in 100% of there boards and nobody sells dfi yet and evga have ben out of stock for quite a while.

 

[Moeks]

Unless you are going to start pushing the CPU to the absolute limit, with lots of voltage ...it isn't a problem. Maybe longer term problems will manifest themselves, I don't know ...no one does really. But that's just the chance we all take I suppose.

I wouldn't worry too much about this right now.