Foxconn P965 motherboard

[ChiPCGuy]

Ok, so I get my new Foxconn P965 motherboard and go to replace the stock NB heatsink with a Zalman NB heatsink. I unloop one side of the wire clip and the heatsink comes up...very easily as if there was no thermal pad, but grease used. I notice that HALF OF THE P965 CORE came up with it!

Foxconn used a thermal pad, so the heatsink should not have come up that easily and I don't believe I have seen a thermal pad so well attached that it would destroy the die. I *think* the die was cracked to begin with, as I applied no pressure at all and it came up extremely easily.

Needless to say, this sucks. Never had this happen before.

Is the P965 die THAT fragile or did I do something???

I have another board on order and am returning the first one, but now I am gunshy about removing the heatsink from the new motherboard for fear this may occur again.

Thoughts??

 

[FSH42NA]

That's a first. Sounds like the Foxconn assembly line person was body slamming those heatsinks down on top of the dies. Kinda doubt it was cracked to begin with. Any case, since you have another on the way there's not much you can do cept double check that one too. The worst thing would be another defective board that goes back. They couldn't possibley tell that you removed the heatsink to peak at the chip. Personally, I would've gotten the Giga DS3/S3 or the ASUS P5B-E.

Good luck

 

[ChiPCGuy]

Originally posted by: FSH42NA
That's a first. Sounds like the Foxconn assembly line person was body slamming those heatsinks down on top of the dies. Kinda doubt it was cracked to begin with. Any case, since you have another on the way there's not much you can do cept double check that one too. The worst thing would be another defective board that goes back. They couldn't possibley tell that you removed the heatsink to peak at the chip. Personally, I would've gotten the Giga DS3/S3 or the ASUS P5B-E.

Good luck

Yeah, I figured the damage was caused during assembly or packaging. I agree with you on the P5B-E, and cancelled the order at NewEgg for the Foxconn replacement and now have a P5B-E on order. I would not consider the Gigabyte boards as the memory compatibility and general quirkiness issues are legendary on this series.

 

[BadThad]

I had to be a cracked core IMO. Just releasing the clip on the cooler would never do that IMO.