Burned my i7?

[SubZer0]

Hello everyone,

A couple of days ago I was sitting around in my room watching TV and my computer was sitting there idling... All of a sudden I see that it restarts by itself... I find it a bit weird but I let it be and when it comes back up to windows it only lasts about a minute and restarts again... I reset the BIOS to default and it kept doing it. The more it restarted, the less time it would stay on... After a while, I couldn't even work with BIOS because it would restart.

I tested the RAM and it was fine.. HDDs were fine as well. So I went to CompUSA (hate that place... no one knows what they're talking about) and got me a new i7 920 chip and put it in a WHAT DO YA KNOW? It works... My guess is that somehow the chip I had was burned out by the OC I had on it?

Here are the settings I had in BIOS to the best of my memory:

BCLK: 190 (3.8ghz)
QPI/DRAM: 1.35
DRAM voltage: 1.66

RAM was running at 1523mhz and at rated timings of 7-7-7-24

I had tested the processor with those settings for stability for hours and hours while I was at work and it was stable with both OCCT and Prime95.

I don't want to OC this one until I get some thoughts on what may have happened to that old one :-/

Thank you all,

Andy

[NickN]

could have been a defective proc out of the gate to begin with

As long as you keep those voltages where I posted you should be A-O/K

When you start exceeding QPI/DRAM 1.42+ for those high speed memory sticks (above 1700) on the C0 procs, its anything goes.

If you never did anything like that and the temps have always remained in spec I would say the slug itself may have been defective from the get-go

[SubZer0]

Hey Nick. I know you're very busy finishing up GEX EU and I know you don't have a lot of time to post, so I really appreciate you taking a look at this.

I was very worried about what it was that caused it, and am now very cautious to proceed to the OC stage with this new one (also a C0/C1 proc). I just installed it today afternoon and everything seems to be running quite well, so I'm wondering if it is safe to proceed to OC'ing it now or should I wait a few days while running tests on it with prime and OCCT?

[NickN]

Hey Nick. I know you're very busy finishing up GEX EU and I know you don't have a lot of time to post, so I really appreciate you taking a look at this.

I was very worried about what it was that caused it, and am now very cautious to proceed to the OC stage with this new one (also a C0/C1 proc). I just installed it today afternoon and everything seems to be running quite well, so I'm wondering if it is safe to proceed to OC'ing it now or should I wait a few days while running tests on it with prime and OCCT?

as I said above.. as long as those voltages and temps were right there is nothing a few days is going to tell you.

If there is something wrong with the board even at stock default voltages the odds are its going to whack another one no matter what