Gigabyte P67 UD7 "Socket Burn"?
 

Finally decided to give this chip a rest and move onto the next chip. This is what I found on the bottom of the chip. The corresponding area of the socket also showed slight mirror signs of burn. Does anyone know what circuit duties this area of cpu pads are responsible for?

The chip still does x54 fine and stable but needs cold to do x55.

Max Voltages used:
vcore 1.67
vdimm 1.72
vtt 1.22
level 2 LLC

Max clocks 5.5ghz run

F2 bios

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Pad layout, looks like all the ground pads blew chunks.
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Will have to check, but it seems even mine has similar burn marks on the chip.........

Dude with LLC2 you were giving it 1.7x vcore at load.

Damm that sucks ....

Is this common to the UD7 or the chips themselves,

I have been around 1.64 to 1.665 with mine.

The only other "incident" I know of with any board is a pre-release UD7 and ES 2600k that miahallen had.

Chip 2 does x56 :D

Heres what chip two looks like.

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1.66vCore
1.20vtt
1.72vDimm
Still on bios F2

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looks like rma time.... can newegg replace them ?

but ill keep the x56 lol

I don't think its common but peeps should peep the underside to be sure.

Its still a good x55 chip tho so I'll keep it for an oca duder after I test it on legitmate sub-zero cooling.

Lemme know if you guys find any sorta abnormalities on the underside of your chips. :good:

Yikes, that really sucks :(

Sorry to see, but I do have to admit it looks pretty neat :)