Socket burn back with Sandy Bridge?

dave_beast · 17 Jan 2011 at 04:33

Hope not

http://www.techreaction.net/2011/01/14/blog-socket-burn-is-back-with-sandy-bridge/

matthab · 17 Jan 2011 at 07:46

Looks like wear and tear to me?

I cant see anything out of the ordinary, ive seen 775,771,1156,1366 sockets do it. Ive put it down those are the pins supplying the most voltage.

Stop It Rawr · 17 Jan 2011 at 07:55

dave_beast said:
Hope not

http://www.techreaction.net/2011/01/14/blog-socket-burn-is-back-with-sandy-bridge/

As matthab said, these may be voltage supply pins, and we don't know the story of what that motherboard had been through before landing at techreaction.

If, for example, it had been tested by another tech site, who used some silly (1.5+) voltage to see how far the SB chips will go, I wouldn't be shocked by this happening. If it hadn't been abused though, it may be an issue. That said, an isolated incident isn't a cause for panic just yet, we'll have to wait and see if it is indeed a one off or a design issue.

[TW]Fox · 17 Jan 2011 at 08:18

matthab said:
Looks like wear and tear to me?

On a 2 week old setup?

matthab · 17 Jan 2011 at 08:23

On a 2 week old setup?

Well it is a review board and when I used to get evaluation boards we would abuse them well.

arknor · 17 Jan 2011 at 08:33

easy way to get a lot of hits, looks like an amateurish site?

on there oc guide they say max voltage is 1.4

1.42 kills the chips? dont intel sya max voltage 1.38 unless you want to risk damaging the lifespan of your cpu? the guys probably used to much voltage and thats the result

1Day · 17 Jan 2011 at 09:56

Review motherboards are often passed around, and the stuff that is done to a motherboard that you are not going to keep or one that you have not bought yourself is horrendous. People will push insane volts through the board to try and get a extreme result that can be used by marketing people. So I really do not get stressed with stuff like that.

Makes me very pleased to have bought a board that has outstanding after sales service mind you.

Mariusmssj · 17 Jan 2011 at 14:46

but it seems to burn on stock without any real stress pit to it

matthab · 17 Jan 2011 at 14:54

Mariusmssj said:
but it seems to burn on stock without any real stress pit to it

Where does it say that?

The reviewer says it came like that when he got it. So its been to other reviewers and he doesnt know whats happened. I wouldnt trust that report as its not a fair real world test.

dave_beast · 17 Jan 2011 at 15:21

On Bit Tech they're saying it's Foxconn sockets, Lotes (MSI and Asus) are not affected.

Mariusmssj · 17 Jan 2011 at 16:14

matthab said:
Where does it say that?

The reviewer says it came like that when he got it. So its been to other reviewers and he doesnt know whats happened. I wouldnt trust that report as its not a fair real world test.

in a chineese site and btw you know manufactures test the motherboards, so it could have burnt in the test which might aswell easily happen when you run it at home.

Mariusmssj · 17 Jan 2011 at 22:50

well if you read more here http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2011/01/17/has-intel-socket-pin-burnout-returned-to-lg/1 it only seems to have issues on extreme overclocks but nothing has been confirmed at all :S

JonJ678 · 17 Jan 2011 at 22:58

Nothing like a dose of hysteria eh