P55 socket question...

[jonpete]

how can you tell if a board is using a Foxconn or a LOTES/Tyco socket? been googling for an hour and could not find anything on it...

I got an MSI P55-GD80 board and would like to verify if which socket this board has... spoke with MSI support and so far they cannot tell... 😱

by looking at the CPU it looks like all of the pads made contact though, but can't tell for sure... :$

any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Absolution75]

The black piece of plastic that you remove from the CPU socket will most likely have Foxconn/Whoever else written on it.

 

[Ayah]

Lotes usually stamps their name onto the socket's cpu hold-down plate thing.

 

[Meghan54]

There have been reports of some mb makers putting LOTES hold down covers/clamps onto Foxconn sockets. You need to, in addition to looking at the socket clamp/cover, look along the plastic socket itself and see what name is imprinted on its side.

See this thread: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=239344

 

[jonpete]

thanks for the reply guys... well I took a look at my mobo, says LOTES on the socket... *whew* :awe:

 

[n7]

I wouldn't worry about it much.

It's ridiculously over-hyped as a big issue, when in fact, for normal users, it is entirely a non-issue.

 

[jonpete]

yeah... but still better to be on the safe side ryt? 🙄 and I am planning to OC this machine as soon as I am done building my case hehehe :twisted:

 

[cmdrdredd]

If you are really worried about it get an EVGA board. None of them use Foxconn sockets.

 

[Lagier]

If you are really worried about it get an EVGA board. None of them use Foxconn sockets.

unfortunately not... some models (for example P55 FTW or P55 SLI) could have a foxconn sockets. When you searching information about it on google you can found some users which bought this mobos and recieved them with foxconn socket...

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I got a GD-80 and its a foxconn. However so far no problems at high volts.