Ok, first let me just say that I almost could have sworn that this board was a refurb when I got it, even though everything was sealed. This is my SECOND X58 platinum, and it looks like I may have to switch to either a third board now, or go with someone else.
The first board was unstable, too hot, and support told me to swap it out. The company I bought it from set up an RMA, charged my card again, shipped a new one. So this board, get this, right out of the box it had a dirty looking copper north bridge heatsink (although the clips seem to be fine), and to top it off, three pins on the CPU socket were bent. I'm not even kidding, they were BENT. I noticed that the pins did not seem to be perfect just from my eye, so I began taking macro pictures of the pins. After zooming in, I found two pins that were bent over eachother, and one that was about 1.5mm off. So I took an eyeglass screwdriver flathead and bent them back. Needless to say, this really upset me considering that this board was supposed to have been checked by quality control.
So with the pins bent into a near perfect order, I end up putting the system together because frankly I'm getting really upset about the problems with this build. I've had more downtime with this upgrade than all the downtime from all upgrades in the past 15 years combined. I get everything set up, boot up, everything works great, at least it seems.
In the past few hours, I spent two of them playing a computer game called Company of Heroes online. After I got out, I checked my temps in Overclocking center, and I noticed that my CPU and System board did pretty good. When I saw my IOH however, my eyes almost popped out of my head. The first board, I thought seeing 80C was bad, but this one was literally at 100-101C. Yes, 100-101C, over 200F. System was still stable, but at this point I'm scared to even continue using this computer.
In the past hour since, it has only cooled down to 85C, and it doesn't seem to want to go any lower. I rebooted twice to make sure that the temps were reading right, and it shows mid 80s in the BIOS as well. I touched the copper heat sink after a brief shut down, and it literally burned my fingers. The heat is spreading, but it's obviously not dissipating well.
So here are my questions regarding this second board.
1. Why were the CPU socket pins bent? How the heck could that have gotten past Quality Control???
2. Will the stability of my system be affected by the pins having to be re-bent to where they should have been, or should it be ok?
3. Is the IOH temp of 100C / 200F as designed, or within guidelines even?
4. Is the temp a fire hazard where I should not be using this PC anymore until I get a new board?
The first board was unstable, too hot, and support told me to swap it out. The company I bought it from set up an RMA, charged my card again, shipped a new one. So this board, get this, right out of the box it had a dirty looking copper north bridge heatsink (although the clips seem to be fine), and to top it off, three pins on the CPU socket were bent. I'm not even kidding, they were BENT. I noticed that the pins did not seem to be perfect just from my eye, so I began taking macro pictures of the pins. After zooming in, I found two pins that were bent over eachother, and one that was about 1.5mm off. So I took an eyeglass screwdriver flathead and bent them back. Needless to say, this really upset me considering that this board was supposed to have been checked by quality control.
So with the pins bent into a near perfect order, I end up putting the system together because frankly I'm getting really upset about the problems with this build. I've had more downtime with this upgrade than all the downtime from all upgrades in the past 15 years combined. I get everything set up, boot up, everything works great, at least it seems.
In the past few hours, I spent two of them playing a computer game called Company of Heroes online. After I got out, I checked my temps in Overclocking center, and I noticed that my CPU and System board did pretty good. When I saw my IOH however, my eyes almost popped out of my head. The first board, I thought seeing 80C was bad, but this one was literally at 100-101C. Yes, 100-101C, over 200F. System was still stable, but at this point I'm scared to even continue using this computer.
In the past hour since, it has only cooled down to 85C, and it doesn't seem to want to go any lower. I rebooted twice to make sure that the temps were reading right, and it shows mid 80s in the BIOS as well. I touched the copper heat sink after a brief shut down, and it literally burned my fingers. The heat is spreading, but it's obviously not dissipating well.
So here are my questions regarding this second board.
1. Why were the CPU socket pins bent? How the heck could that have gotten past Quality Control???
2. Will the stability of my system be affected by the pins having to be re-bent to where they should have been, or should it be ok?
3. Is the IOH temp of 100C / 200F as designed, or within guidelines even?
4. Is the temp a fire hazard where I should not be using this PC anymore until I get a new board?
