CPU UPSIDE DOWN? HELP!!! Annoyed and Concerned

[SCANNERMAN777]

1 minute ago, SLAYR said:

It isn't like people will notice that it is upside down it will have a big metal cooler blocking you from seeing the wrinting on it anyways. 

I considered this but it's not the point. The point is it's pretty freaking scary when you're shelling out thousands for a decent build and they can't even get the print on the lid right.

[Hal_9000]

2 minutes ago, SCANNERMAN777 said:

nm... two different posters with same pic. lol Man, give the noob a hard time, hey?

So long as you didn't have to force the CPU in and all the pins appear striaght then it should work fine. Just dumb Mobo manufacturers on top of Intel getting cocky

[SCANNERMAN777]

On 12/6/2016 at 11:26 AM, Hal_9000 said:

So long as you didn't have to force the CPU in and all the pins appear striaght then it should work fine. Just dumb Mobo manufacturers on top of Intel getting cocky

You probably have something there since I refused to pay more than $800.00 Canadian for my chip and most places wanted more. lol

 

I suspect it was the stinjee peeps at Intel offering some discount on chips as I paid $699 Canadian for it and I've seen them sell for over a grande.

[Hal_9000]

4 minutes ago, SCANNERMAN777 said:

You probably have something there since I refused to pay more than $800.00 Canadian for my chip and most places wanted more. lol

If there's is a problem with booting I'd call the manufacture of the motherboard and say that the CPU socket was incorrectly marked therefore its a warranty issue on there part. Same with Intel.

[SCANNERMAN777]

Thanks for the advice. Let's hope I don't have to make that phone call.

 

Personally, i think Intel just got lazy on lidding some of the chips.

 

[Shadow_Storm56]

55 minutes ago, SCANNERMAN777 said:

HELP PLEASE

 

Am I panicking??? I lined up cpu triangle with cpu triangle on bracket and cpu triangle on socket of my LGA 2011-3 BOARD (ASUS X99E-WS) and discovered that the writing on the lid of the i76850K chip that I installed was upside down. I'm finding this really scary. Is ASUS in the habit of putting in sockets upside down on their motherboards these days??? Is Intel getting so sloppy they don't care how the print on the lids of their cpus looks? Is yours truly, computer builder of two decades losing it???? I have never seen the writing on the lid of a cpu upside down after installation before. I removed the chip, examined the pins, no apparent damage was done. Re-installed in socket lining up the triangles once again and yup... the print on the lid of the cpu is UPSIDE DOWN. Please help.

Yep mine is turned 90 to the right 

[Curious Pineapple]

Parts are placed and oriented to allow the best track routing. Pinouts also take this into account, and are quite often dictated by how the part will generally be placed in the rest of the system.

[bsodmike]

1 hour ago, LabRat said:

 I never thought about that until now. I never looked.

Wow, same here.  Never ever gave it another thought.  I only cared about the triangle orientation.

[ThinkWithPortals]

Yes, if the triangles line up then it's fine. As long as the triangles are lined up, writing orientation doesn't matter at all.

[LabRat]

maybe it depends on what side of the equator the chip was manufactured on............. LOL

[asand1]

4 hours ago, SCANNERMAN777 said:

I considered this but it's not the point. The point is it's pretty freaking scary when you're shelling out thousands for a decent build and they can't even get the print on the lid right.

Just because your socket is upside down doesn't mean another board is not. Intel cannot predict how a mother board manufacturer will orientate a socket. I would suggest paying attention to the silk screen triangle and the notches on the PCB rather that the printing on the heat spreader. Your negligence, not Intel's.

[LabRat]

put the build in a 600c.

[SCANNERMAN777]

4 hours ago, asand1 said:

Just because your socket is upside down doesn't mean another board is not. Intel cannot predict how a mother board manufacturer will orientate a socket. I would suggest paying attention to the silk screen triangle and the notches on the PCB rather that the printing on the heat spreader. Your negligence, not Intel's.

Nothing neglected -- just thorough attention to detail is all. I blame Intel. You blame Asus. Unless the print on every lid on every chip of this design is upside down in this make of motherboard I'm right and you're wrong. Let's see what the cat drags in 

[asand1]

1 hour ago, SCANNERMAN777 said:

You blame Asus.

Incorrect, I blame you. You should not have been looking at the print on the heat speeader, but rather the triangles and the notches.

[gcubed]

Let's start by making the assumption that Intel never makes a mistake on printing the chip identifying marks on the lid.

 

The board manufacturer designs the board. They will place the socket on the board in any orientation that makes the most sense design-wise. This means that if the optimal orientation has the corners of the socket (instead of the sides) facing up/down and left/right, that is what they will do.

[SCANNERMAN777]

21 hours ago, gcubed said:

Let's start by making the assumption that Intel never makes a mistake on printing the chip identifying marks on the lid.

 

The board manufacturer designs the board. They will place the socket on the board in any orientation that makes the most sense design-wise. This means that if the optimal orientation has the corners of the socket (instead of the sides) facing up/down and left/right, that is what they will do.

I would say that that might be a safe assumption but nonetheless an assumption. Still, I think it would be interesting to gather some intel (no pun intended) on how many people have the same chips upside down and upside right on the same motherboard. I'm not worried though. The board posted.

[SCANNERMAN777]

On 12/6/2016 at 9:00 PM, asand1 said:

Incorrect, I blame you. You should not have been looking at the print on the heat speeader, but rather the triangles and the notches.

Wrong again. I looked to make sure all three triangles aligned first. Evidently you did not read the lead post.

[done12many2]

FYI, your monitor and CPU have the same aspect ratio.  

[SCANNERMAN777]

It's only a test. I haven't really start to build yet. lol hilarious

On 12/6/2016 at 10:00 PM, asand1 said:

Incorrect, I blame you. You should not have been looking at the print on the heat speeader, but rather the triangles and the notches.

scroll up... waaay up... And don't be rusty.

On 12/6/2016 at 10:59 AM, iamdarkyoshi said:

Mines upside down...

Yours is upside down too? What cpu and mobo are you using please.

[iamdarkyoshi]

3 minutes ago, SCANNERMAN777 said:

Yours is upside down too? What cpu and mobo are you using please.

 

Well, here is one of my old builds with a 3930k and an x79 extreme9 motherboard,

 

Note how the motherboard text is upside down to the cpu

 

Pretty certain my current build with an ROG IV Gene motherboard was the same way

[SCANNERMAN777]

I just think it's funny after all the builds I've done that I just notice it now. (And here, after all this time, I thought I paid attention to detail). Thank you for the picture. You've been a great help.

On 12/6/2016 at 11:25 AM, JohnT said:

Electricity doesn't understand gravity. As long as your computer posts, there is nothing to worry about

But you don't understand... To an HSP in an electric universe EVERYTHING MATTERS!

[79 Potatoes]

Delid it and put the lid upside down

/jk

[SCANNERMAN777]

On 12/6/2016 at 11:27 AM, Abyssal Radon said:

Mines a i7 5930K, but the motherboard is the one... the one with the others with a upside down socket.... idiots at EVGA, jk, the motherboard is a fucking beast.

How do you know it's the motherboard's fault? Intel isn't perfect. Perhaps Intel is getting sloppy on chip lidding. Perhaps they've always been sloppy on chip lidding and nobody noticed... until now.

On 12/8/2016 at 8:53 AM, 79 Potatoes said:

Delid it and put the lid upside down

/jk

The thought actually crossed my mind (for about two seconds before I dismissed it). Naaaw it will be my little secret. The cooler will hide it anyway. It it were a Haswell chip I'd be tempted to de-lid though.

[RxL]

im pretty sure its down asus because they are the ones that created the OC Socket which was "reverse engineered" the standard x99 intel socket for better overclocking for lower volts and such things and then every other vendor EVGA, Gigabyte, Asrock and so on copied asus or should i say tried to copy

[SCANNERMAN777]

1 minute ago, RxL said:

im pretty sure its down asus because they are the ones that created the OC Socket which was "reverse engineered" the standard x99 intel socket for better overclocking for lower volts and such things and then every other vendor EVGA, Gigabyte, Asrock and so on copied asus or should i say tried to copy

That is a very sensible possibility -- not that I would dis EVGA, GIGABYTE, ASROCK (okay, maybe Asrock) and certainly not MSI. Gotta admit, my preference has been ASUS since 2007. I've played with rest and now I've settled for the best.

 

 

*as an after thought Dell makes good test monitors lol