The infamous "socket burn" returns (Updated - No it doesn't)

[bigsharn]

Not sure how many of you will remember, but in 1156 sockets there were some issues with pins on motherboards burning out, well it appears the same has happened with some Sandy Bridge motherboards.

This blog has received Gigabyte's UD7 for testing and found that under "extreme conditions" pin burn occurs. Under Sandy Bridge that could be deemed anything from extreme overclocking to running the machine for more than 10 hours a day.

Whether this is an isolated incident or not is still to be confirmed, but it seems to be a Foxconn socket that's affected (yet again). We are waiting on an official word from Gigabyte but if you were planning on buying a Sandy Bridge rig I'd hold back just for the time being.


EDIT:
Gigabyte have responded to the articles posted all over the internet and determined it was a faulty board and shouldn't have left Gigabyte's building, so Sandybridge is now safe, apparently.

'We suspect that we messed up and sent him a board that we had damaged during our own testing and have sent him another new one,' claims the company.

'Our testing involves overclocking and other various tests to which no motherboard should normally be exposed – we’re basically testing durability, and durability is determined when the board dies.

We’re still waiting to check the board and trace where it has been, to try and figure out how a damaged board was sent as a media sample and prevent this from happening again.'

[Mark]

More than 10 hours a day isn't extreme conditions, more like a slacker shift.

[bigsharn]

Depending who you ask, 10 hours a day could be a lot of time on a computer (especially 10 hours of Crysis)