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P55 Foxconn Socket Contact Issues

October 15th, 2009 at Thu, 15th, 2009 at 5:27 pm by Changlin Li

For any of you computer aficionados who have already gotten a new Lynnfield Core i7 or Core i5 processors, it looks like there’s some issues with sockets on motherboards made by Foxconn (keep in mind this affects motherboards with Foxconn sockets, which is a wide variety of motherboards, not just those branded under the Foxconn name) with the socket pins not making full contact with the processor. Check out this Anandtech article about it. Although it seems to be mainly an issue with extreme overclocking, there’s some indication that it could be affecting more moderate overclocking as well or even stock frequencies and voltages.

And for those of you who want to know more about overclocking or anything else, shoot me an email at cli@bellevuereporter.com. I’m open to suggestions right now about what direction this blog should go.

Changlin Li Changlin Li is an intern here at the Bellevue Reporter and is a student at Interlake High School, who will be very happy once summer rolls around. Contact him at cli@bellevuereporter.com with any comments you might have.

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