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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.