I just wanted to commend you guys for outfitting most of your boards with Tyco/AMP and LOTES sockets. I picked up two P55 FTW boards and both had LOTES sockets that make much better contact with the CPU than my Gigabyte P55-UD4P's Foxconn socket. Are you planning on eliminating all Foxconn sockets from your P55 series?

i think EVGA is using lotus sockets only now, the x58 boards also use lotus parts.

I think that Foxconn is aware of the issue and have most likely already corrected the problem. It probably only happened on the  first batches of boards so Iwould not be very concerned about this moving forward. Foxconn is one of the leading produces of many board components so I don't think they would just let this go without a quick resolution.

I've just ordered a P55 sli board which should arrive soon, how can I tell if it's using the foxconn socket?

You've got a good chance of getting a Tyco/AMP or LOTES with an EVGA board, which both are free of the problems that the Foxconn design has. Apparently, Foxconn has a new design that doesn't have that problem.

I have a Gigabyte board with a Foxconn socket and it seemed to make decent contact with my i7 860. I have no way of telling if it's the new design, or the old one, though.

My P55 Classified has a Lotes socket.

Eleventh

I just got a P55 SLI from Newegg and it's sadly a Foxconn. I am also sorely disappointed by this and am wondering if I should RMA it before my 30 days are up. Thoughts?

You might have a board that has a socket not of the bad batch, or a new revision. I would just say run with it, overclock it heavy, and then if it fails, or "Socket burnout" occurs, just RMA.

Eleventh

merc.man87

Eleventh

I just got a P55 SLI from Newegg and it's sadly a Foxconn. I am also sorely disappointed by this and am wondering if I should RMA it before my 30 days are up. Thoughts?

You might have a board that has a socket not of the bad batch, or a new revision. I would just say run with it, overclock it heavy, and then if it fails, or "Socket burnout" occurs, just RMA.

This sounds pretty dangerous for my processor. No?

Indeed it does, But doesn't Intel include a 3 year warranty on that processor? Overclocking cpu's to 4.2ghz could be bad in the long run, no one really knows for sure.

Andy75

Yesterday I bought P55 SLI with LOTES socket

Lucky. Where did you buy it?

Hey Guys,
 
Was out yesterday looking for a replacement board to get the wifes PC going while I deal with my "brand new, old stock P55 FTW" Step-up board. So I go by Fry's to check things out and find a new set of EVGA boards on display and all with Lotes sockets. I look down and there are full shevles of brand new boards. What struck me as funny was this same set of display boards had Foxconn sockets last week. For whatever reason Fry's changed out their EVGA boards. They usually leave the boards hanging till they are picked clean by the vultures.
 
Kinda sad, I could have driven 10 miles and had a board with a Lotes socket rather than pitch good $$ down the tube for my "Step-UP ??" .. Oh well, my lucky week for sure. 
  
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johnmk

Thanks for the pictures but I don't understand the words. Care to paraphrase?

If you mean what the socket retainer says ... Lotes at the bottom of each retainer.
 
Sorry for the poor quality .. cell phone picks and these were the good ones. Just trying to show each board now has the Lotes socket. Looks like the new stock is all ok now (at least at the Fry's in Phoenix).
 
If you are missing the meaning, I just got my brand new P55 FTW board from the EVGA "Step-up Program" and it has a Foxconn socket. I am at a loss to why EVGA would send out a Foxconn socket on my board while everything they are shipping has the new sockets. That's the short version.
 
I decided to go ahead and build with it and take the chance a moderate OC will not fry the thing. Maybe this is the latest board with the corrected Foxconn sockets I am reading about. Sure hope so.

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johnmk

I see, I understand now. Why not phone them up and ask if you have a revised Foxconn socket that's different from the ones which failed?

They were contacted last week, still waiting for response. Not worrried either way, EVGA warranty is one of the best in industry. More disappointed in them than mad and their tech support do frequent these forums.
 
Update - Installed and now removing. Did check the BIOS date and definately not a newer board with a Bios / creation date of9/9/09. Can't complete the Win7 installation. Goes to black screen and stops at last phase of install. Heard of this issue across other threads and forums. Known good memory, video cards and processor that was used in the P55 SLI that was returned for step up program and perfromed perfect. Tried all the known settings for Ram and drives. Thought it didn't like the raid setup so tried without, same thing, tried again loading drivers ahead of install, no luck, tried one stick of ram and then swapping ram, no luck, tried one vid card vs two in SLI, no luck, Used default ram timing, auto and manual timing with voltage control to spec, same thing. Even tried a hard format on the drive, nothing. Spent all day tyring to diagnose, no luck. Not a noob at this been building PC's a long, long time. Going back for RMA. 
 
Last post on the subject, you guys take care, I'm done.