im at work to :(

but mine seems to be fine so far been using 1.6v-core lvl 5, 1.1vtt, mem 1.64v 1600mhz :laughing:

rest on auto = stock

but i havent checked the pads since i put it on the ss

but its used cpu and was used on a ud7 and pads have pin marks and was a lil discolored but not burned :)

2 i sold didnt have any marks or pads burns etc.

that sux man burned your chip :(

i am kinda glad i waited finding out everything bad about it :P

Looks like I had the same problem with my first 2600k, both chip and board still worked fine

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...P1040234-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...g/P1040240.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...g/P1040242.jpg

Yah, looks the same, any ideas as to the cause?
Board/bios?

It's a UD7, I dont know what really caused this but it's down to one of three things in my mind

1. When I first got it, I ran it on the stock cpu cooler and when playing around with different multipliers and voltages temps got a bit high and could have scorched the cpu, the socket does look like it's melted a bit.

2. Condensation due to phase cooling

3. The same problem that caused yours to burn ;)

Voltages used
vcore 1.62
vdimm 1.76
vtt 1.14
level 2 LLC

Max clocks 5.28ghz

I have replaced the cpu with another and used it for a while on similar settings with no signs of burns on it

Kool, thx for sharin, I'm thinking it has sumtin to do with the bios and LLC settings. Of course, I'm just guessin since I haven't hooked up any DMM's to check if theres major voltage swing offs.

You're lookin good on the submissions too bro ;)

when i saw the pix i though it was condensation too due to the second pix there...

you guys think maybe too much pressure on one side of the chip could be causing this with our non stock bolt down coolers?

no acceptable for such an expensive board imo

If it was coolers it would be happening on other boards.

There was a great thread about hte sockets used. It gets confusing because what is written on the hold down plate is NOT who makes the socket. So one company was getting blamed when in fact they don't make the sockets causing the issue..


Should be easy to find, think it was sin's posts over at OCN about miahs post that talked about it. I looked the stuff up myself and it is true. There are different manufacturers involved. only one with problems, and only GB uses them

EDIT: LOL I dont know why I thought the valuable info was posted at OCN heh heh wasnt there.

Thing is lotes makes sockets. they also make just the hold downs. There are 3 companys that produce sockets (Lotes foxconn and cant think of the other) Gigabyte uses the LOTES hold downs like ASUS but does not use the lotes socket.

thread had the part numbers involved and everything it was very informative.


It is not a "gigabyte issue" except that it is only a gigabyte issue because they are the only one using the combination that fails.

sucks tho cause a UD7 is so expensive. I would have hoped they changed sockets for the B3 rev.

I know they did this last time, quickly changed sockets on their 1156 boards when they heard the problem.

On a side note, despite all the hideous socket burns, i have never heard of someone's cpu not working afterwards. They always still work fine :O

Rich isn't that just for s1156? Kal and Miahallen are the only two I can think of for reporting socket burn on s1155. Still sucks that it's the same vendor. I still gotta pull mine out and check.

Pulled my cpu out of the socket yesterday and can report no signs of burn here. Must be lvl 2 llc or some condensation that did it.

bios?

I have used f2, f3c and f3h

I'm 99% sure the P67AUD7B3 has a bad case of anal glaucoma. This board's bios's suck random smurf dung.

anybody got a favorite bios to try? I tried most all of them and they are all squirly like Rocky.

i think its the dual bios that makes things screwy, sometimes you fail to the second bios which is probably a different version, then that fails and your back to the original causing massive headaches

I always flash the backup bios with what ever the primary bios is. Alleviates a lot of headaches.

Alt+F12 within 1 sec of white giga screen on boot up after cmos has been cleared.

I have a theory, ud7 sucks the gold off your chip base then kills itself so you have to rma. They then extract the gold and send you another board to repeat the process

Its a very lucrative business :laughing:

:thumbsup: Do the same here and have a smooth experience with the UD7. :)


Kal I haven't tried the F3's yet but I like F2c the best out of the F2 series. What are they on this week..... F4?? Been too darn busy to look.

ROFL SPLAVE!

got my ud7 and,
Yea to be honest the rebooting errors piss meh off. the restart button hardly ever RESTARTS the thing. Always causes some other crap to happen.

its basically identical to UD4

Suckleware? :blink: