those are all shit mainstream boards that aren't really meant for overclocking. it's not that surprising that they failed.
Those were the "value" boards that ASrock, ECS and MSI each picked for THG to review and they sure as heck knew they were going to be overclocked.
The only thing we are not certain of is if they also used Foxconn sockets or not. No one can say for certain that the poor pin contact did not also contribute to mobo failure - if these issues are related.
UPDATED: i asked at Toms and got the answer that the Foxconn socket issue is probably unrelated to their issues with the mobo failure. And that ASRock did indeed fix their mobo with a BIOS update
It's fixed, I tested it, you'll see an update in around a week. And you need to know that Asus and Gigabyte, the two boards that didn't have any issues, used Foxconn sockets.
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