Let's put together a list of Socket 1156 boards that have confirmed LOTES branded sockets. For those of us with water cooling, this can make or break whether or not a board can be used by us for extreme overclocking. Almost every board I'd of considered for one reason or another has been shot down because it uses a foxconn socket which have known issues. And knowing this matters to me, it will matter to others, so let's get a list together because I can't find one anywhere else!
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3661
Please read the article at the above link for more info...
This will not effect moderate overclocking, but can be a factor if you're buying a new p55 board and I myself want to make sure I pick up a board with a known better socket.
Worth reading: http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?p=6295872#post6295872
Apparently Lotes sockets blow up too, but there's no doubting that lotes sockets are built better, and seem to be experiencing the issues LESS.
Here is the list so far -
eVGA:
P55 SLI (per newegg pix) *sample I recieved did NOT have a LOTES brand socket, had a foxconn socket. be advised *
P55 SLI FTW (per newegg pix)
P55 NF200 FTW (per newegg pix)
P55 NF200 Classified (Per Icebob)
P55 LE (Per Raul-7 visiting Fry's)
DFI:
P55-T3eH9 (per clunk review, official dfi, and per the sample I recieved)
Gigabyte:
P55A-UD6 (per clunk review)
MSI:
MSI P55-CD53 LGA 1156 (Per Raul-7 visiting Fry's)
Intel:
BOXDP55WG LGA 1156 (Per Raul-7 visiting Fry's)
BOXDP55WB LGA 1156 (Per Raul-7 visiting Fry's)
Biostar:
T5 XE CFX-SLI (Per Raul-7 visiting Fry's)
TP55 (Per Raul-7 visiting Fry's)
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3661
Please read the article at the above link for more info...
This will not effect moderate overclocking, but can be a factor if you're buying a new p55 board and I myself want to make sure I pick up a board with a known better socket.
That Anandtech article is so irritating, this is being blown way out of proporion. If you're water cooling (thus not doing any extreme overclocking), you probably don't have to worry about your socket burning up. The pictures at Anandtech are of a CPU overclocked to 5.1ghz+.
There's no reason to go out of your way to avoid Foxconn sockets if you're not doing any REAL extreme overclocking.
Worth reading: http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?p=6295872#post6295872
Apparently Lotes sockets blow up too, but there's no doubting that lotes sockets are built better, and seem to be experiencing the issues LESS.
Here is the list so far -
eVGA:
P55 SLI (per newegg pix) *sample I recieved did NOT have a LOTES brand socket, had a foxconn socket. be advised *
P55 SLI FTW (per newegg pix)
P55 NF200 FTW (per newegg pix)
P55 NF200 Classified (Per Icebob)
P55 LE (Per Raul-7 visiting Fry's)
DFI:
P55-T3eH9 (per clunk review, official dfi, and per the sample I recieved)
Gigabyte:
P55A-UD6 (per clunk review)
MSI:
MSI P55-CD53 LGA 1156 (Per Raul-7 visiting Fry's)
Intel:
BOXDP55WG LGA 1156 (Per Raul-7 visiting Fry's)
BOXDP55WB LGA 1156 (Per Raul-7 visiting Fry's)
Biostar:
T5 XE CFX-SLI (Per Raul-7 visiting Fry's)
TP55 (Per Raul-7 visiting Fry's)
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