[Solved] Core i5-750 to go for?

As the Anandtech article said, If you don't overclock it to 4.0ghz then don't worry about it.
Foxconn is printed on the underside of the socket. Lotes stamps it on the top of the socket, directly to the left of the curve of the lever.

Or is it better to wait until companies make an official statement that the problem has been corrected?

That would require that companies officially state that it's a problem to begin with. I don't think that's happened yet. The Anandtech article I read specifically said they thought under 4.3Ghz was okay. *shrugs* Reality, I'm sure there's no exact voltage, or exact clock speed at which the problem occurs. It's totally dependent on several details. For instance, how many pins aren't making contact is probably not exactly the same in every situation.

I will say, I sure hope my board is fine. Because my new i5 runs great at 4Ghz, and I'd really hate to have it fry because the pins don't contact well. Then again, my CPU cooler has a rear bracket to bolt it down. I wonder if that extra pressure applied against the CPU helps with pin contact (as compared with Intel stock heat sinks that put poor pressure against the CPU).

Then, do your cpu pins make full contact with the socket?

Took my HDT-S1283 cooler off and removed my CPU last night. Was wanting to reapply my AS5 anyhow as I didn't like the temp variations I had between CPU cores. Anyhow, visually inspected the pins and my CPU. Everything looked perfect. Tried to use the Macro mode on my digital camera to take photos of the socket and CPU. Unfortunately since my camera is a point-n-shoot it did a horrible job. Photos are too blurry to tell whether each contact on the CPU had contact marks on it.

With the naked eye however, everything looked perfectly fine. Wish I could say more.

Are lotes sockets free from burning?
Do the gigabyte p55a series boards use lotes?

All the Gigabyte P55A series use the LOTES socket instead.

Avoid ASUS boards which all use Foxconn socket if you are so worried about the issue.

EVGA only use LOTES socket on their high-end board which cost the same as LGA1366 i7 boards.

Not sure about the other brands.

Do you turn on Load-Line Calibration(LLC)? What Vcore and Vtt do you use?

The P55A boards at least use a Lotes clamp, but I am not sure about the socket itself. They still use a Foxconn pin protector.

As for checking to see if pin impressions are on the chip, I noticed my new i5 already has pin indentations, possibly from Intel testing of it, so I am not sure how much a visual inspection helps (unless most chips do not already have the indentations.

Sorry for late reply. Thanks a lot guys. You guys have cleared all the doubts i had. Is there any gigabyte p55a series board that is similar in cost to p55m ud2?

Don't let the thought you have a foxconn socket make you lose sleep. Raj the tester at Anands that helped start this witch hunt has said a lotes socket has been confirmed burned as well.
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdo [...] 3#comments
Scroll down its in the comments section.

"The socket comment was made because in light of the failures we experienced during testing. Our failures have been all related to Foxconn sockets, but there is now a confirmed user case having issues with a LOTES socket too. In light of this, it's hard to give any board accolades for raw overclocking until we know for sure that the 'problem' is fixed. Out of all the boards, the EVGA P55 FTW was the most consistent and easy to use. Also note, this article is in no way reflective of 24/7 PC's and what matters in typical usage scenarios. "

MY POINT is, its o/c if you push hard enough you can blow any board up. These chips o/c so well people keep pushing. The boards that burnt were all earliest boards and earliest bios's. We all know the better the board you buy, the more voltage redundancy it has. Why? So you don't blow things up as easily.

Go for the i5!

Reason:

1. i5 can easily achieve 3.6GHz near stock core voltage(if not at stock core voltage) which is well below the maximum and absolute maximum with ALL other voltage well within maximum specification as well. Hence, you will be absolutely fine even with Foxconn CLAMP.

2. 99.99% PII-955's maximum on-air OC is 3.8GHz which is nothing but a garbage compared to i5@3.6GHz.

3. FYI: i5(stock@2.66GHz) vs PII-965(stock@3.4GHz) (LOWER the better in some cases)
It shows that i5 is significantly better even it's 740MHz less than 965. Imagine what will happen when i5 is merely 200MHz less.

4. Power efficiency: i5 consumes 24% less power compared to 955, being much better at the same time.

Thanks guys. Sorry for replying late as i forgot to look at the thread. I'll take the core i5 route as i want sli benefits and i'll be playing pcsx2 emulator too which works best with intel and nvidia. Thanks a lot for being with me all these days to help me figure out the best for me. Thanks again.

If you read the full benchmarks and hover over the info bubble to view the specs for the i5, it has turbo enabled, making it run at 3.2GHz. Thus the i5 in those comparisons is just 200MHz under the 965. As a result, a 3.8GHz 955 and 3.6GHz i5 would have nearly the exact scaling as in that comparison, with the i5 barely coming out on top in most benchmarks.

The i5 is still better, but it is't definitely not 740MHz behind the 965 in those comparisons. Yes, it's still better clock for clock, but not nearly as much as you're making it out to be, as nearly all benchmarks have turbo enabled.

The i5 has three states, either 1.2ghz idle, 3.2ghz with 1-2 cores active and 2.8ghz with 3-4 cores active.

Chances are you knew that and are lying again.

Ok from an hour of experience with my i5 750, it will never hit 2.6 GHz unless you disable speed step and at four cores, mine atleast, hovers between 2.4 GHz to 2.9 GHz on load. I have never seen 2.8 GHz yet. To be honest it seems to like 2.4 GHz for some reason. I disabled speedstep and now it is between 2.6 GHz and 2.9 GHz at load with 2.6 GHz being the majority, it is not throttling under load I checked.

Turbo mode seems pretty dumb to me.

http://www.lostcircuits.com/mambo/ [...] mitstart=5

Yes Badtrip...

It's like me saying the Phenom II owns the i5 with 1.8ghz less? You know, my Phenom II spends most of it's time at 800mhz and is at 3ghz+ more of an exception than the rule?

While doing nothing much, both cpu's will be throttled back to 800mhz (phII) and 1.2ghz (i5). When running ALL those benchmarks, the i5 will be either at 2.8ghz or 3.2ghz and that's a fact.

I agree completely. How about this?

Truespace 5.1 rendering

Truespace 7.5 rendering

MainConcept H.264

Dvdshrink 3.2

Nero 9 Recode

V-dub

DIEP Chess

Crysis CPU bench

UT3 CPU bench

With a few exceptions, the Phenom II is clearly ahead of the i5 720 in *real world apps*. Most of those anand benches are synthetics. Look at the real apps there and you can see that the Phenom II is almost certainly faster overall than the i5.

Yes I know that. I don't consider 1-2 fps to be a win unless some intel fantard claims 1-2 seconds less encoding time is a 'win' too.

Yes generally it is true. Clock for clock, an intel will usually beat the equivalent AMD by a very small margin in everything except gaming.

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Nice sarcasm I actually appreciated that.