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P55 overclocking destroying chips

Venom · 2009-11-02 11:28:48

http://anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3661&cp=1#comments This looks to be a major problem for motherboards using foxconn sockets which lots of the bigger brands like Asus, Gigabyte and DFI etc use. DFI and Gigabyte have stated they are moving over to Lotes sockets to avoid this issue. Asus has stated they don't condon…

02-11-2009 11:28am

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This looks to be a major problem for motherboards using foxconn sockets which lots of the bigger brands like Asus, Gigabyte and DFI etc use. DFI and Gigabyte have stated they are moving over to Lotes sockets to avoid this issue. Asus has stated they don't condon overclocking of their motherboards with is utter bollocks imho.

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#2 03-11-2009 9:14am

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I wouldn't be too worried about that. They're saying damage is only inflicted on very high overclocks(5Ghz+). Still seeing something like that isn't exactly reassuring..

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