Confirmed boards with LOTES

Aynjell · Nov 5, 2009

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.

sno.lcn said:
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)

sno.lcn · Nov 5, 2009

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.

hokiealumnus · Nov 5, 2009

I can confirm the EVGA P55 FTW has the lotes socket. See the two picks to the right at the top of this page for photos.

+1 to sno.lcn as well.

Aynjell · Nov 5, 2009

sno.lcn said:
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.

This thread was started to catalog boards known to utilize lotes sockets. I appreciate your input and I understand it's for extreme overclocking, but I still want to create a list of known lotes sockets. Let's face it, better can never mean worse.

Aynjell · Nov 5, 2009

sno.lcn said:
Fair enough.

According to this thread, the DFI P55-T3eH9 has a LOTES socket.

LOL, I came back to the thread to put that in. lol time warp

Anyway, this is probably the board I'm getting, need to read more about it, but I'm pretty sold on going dfi again. 8 sata ports, 3 pci-e 16x, and a good layout plus a lotes socket has me sold already, but gotta make sure it doesn't fall short in the oc area.

sno.lcn · Nov 5, 2009

Fair enough.

According to this thread, the DFI P55-T3eH9 has a LOTES socket.

Supershanks · Nov 5, 2009

GIGABYTE P55A

GIGABYTE P55A mobos - SATA3, USB3 and 3x USB power Oh and Lotes sockets

Raul-7 · Nov 5, 2009

According to raja, MSI have switched over to LOTES as well.

Supershanks · Nov 5, 2009

According to raja, MSI have switched over to LOTES as well.

:lol: just asus to go then. Still to see any Foxconn p55 boards, wonder what socket they'll use

icebob · Nov 6, 2009

EVGA P55 NF200 Classified= Lotes, I know I have one, and I guess not all foxconn socket have problem, I have a Maximus III Formula that I've burn 30 liters of LN2 on it and no trace of socket burn...

Aynjell · Nov 6, 2009

icebob said:
EVGA P55 NF200 Classified= Lotes, I know I have one, and I guess not all foxconn socket have problem, I have a Maximus III Formula that I've burn 30 liters of LN2 on it and no trace of socket burn...

Thank you for the update, icebob. Let's try and keep these coming in, guys, and thank you all for the cooperation and contribution! :beer:

MIAHALLEN · Nov 6, 2009

Supershanks said:
GIGABYTE P55A mobos - SATA3, USB3 and 3x USB power Oh and Lotes sockets

Original source is Tweaktown:
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/13357...and_3x_usb_power/index.html#Thanks-for-voting

I will be reviewing one of these very soon, stay tuned :beer:

Supershanks · Nov 6, 2009

Original source is Tweaktown:

yes, as we mentioned in the link I gave :lol: look forward to your review

icebob · Nov 6, 2009

Hey Miah look at this thread and when you get the board and the usb3.0 gizmo can you check if you use it if it really affect the pcie performance? Thx GigaMiah!

MIAHALLEN · Nov 6, 2009

Yeah, I saw that thread...I'll look into it :beer:

Gigabyte made a point to ask me specifically to test the USB 3.0 feature, and that they are "trying to get a 3.0 device" from a third party...hopefully that will work out

Raul-7 · Nov 7, 2009

MIAHALLEN said:
Original source is Tweaktown:
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/13357...and_3x_usb_power/index.html#Thanks-for-voting

I will be reviewing one of these very soon, stay tuned

Also on Newegg:

Evilsizer · Nov 8, 2009

well seems GB added some more boards, the P55A-UD3R and P55A-UD4P.
http://www.gigabyte.us/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=3252
http://www.gigabyte.us/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=3250

zangler · Nov 8, 2009

Evilsizer said:
well seems GB added some more boards, the P55A-UD3R and P55A-UD4P.
http://www.gigabyte.us/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=3252
http://www.gigabyte.us/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=3250

i believe every GB board with the 'A' after P55 has that socket.

Supershanks · Nov 8, 2009

Evilsizer said:
well seems GB added some more boards, the P55A-UD3R and P55A-UD4P.
http://www.gigabyte.us/Products/Moth...ProductID=3252
http://www.gigabyte.us/Products/Moth...ProductID=3250

Yes I'd assumed from the designation that P55A was meant to give a distinct split from the previous boards and that P55A
meant:
USB3
Sata3
Lotes

zangler said:
i believe every GB board with the 'A' after P55 has that socket.

- Exactly.

Raul-7 · Nov 10, 2009

I stopped by Fry's today to pickup a new case and saw the following boards with LOTES sockets:
Intel BOXDP55WG LGA 1156
MSI P55-CD53 LGA 1156
BIOSTAR (don't remember the model #)
EVGA P55 LE

Only the GIGABYTE and ASUS boards still had the Foxconn sockets.

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