Originally Posted by
deachus
So I had the craziest situation happen this past weekend. I decided to move my current (not so great) 2600K from my MIVE main rig to my media server paired with a P8P67LE and go buy a new 2600K hoping for a great clocker.
I recorded some Batch# to look for, specifically Andressergios #L045B836 and Hazzan #3103B326 before going to MicroCenter St. Davids. When I got there they had all the Batch# readable through the glass case so I started to check them out and compare to the batches I was looking for. They had about 12 in the case that where all 3115BXXX batches and in the back corner was one 3103B306. I was excited as this was very close to Hazzan’s 59X chip so I bought it and headed home to test it out.
I pulled my existing CPU and put it in the P8P67LE. I put the new chip in my main MIVE rig (Bios 1850) and it booted right up. I wanted to find max multi so I went back to bios, put in 55X, 56X, 57X, 59X with memory at 1866Mhz instead of my standard 2133 and put vcore at 1.56v. It booted windows all the way up to 56x no problem. It posted and tried loading windows but just before it gets to welcome screen it locks up on 59X multi. At this point I am pretty sure I got a great chip.
I restarted and put multi back to 56X with 1.565vcore and memory to DDR3-2133 to test SuperPI 1M and 32M real quick. It booted into windows fine and ran 1M fine, 6.733s 1M. I then tried running 32M and about half way through benchmark my monitor went black. I thought it tried to reboot meaning it needed more vcore so I turned off PSU via switch and then board would not post at all. I tried switching to second bios, tried clearing cmos and no matter what I did the Board would not post at all. I swapped memory, one stick, 2 sticks, etc but nothing. I pulled the chip and put my old 2600K back in and the Board booted into windows no problem at 4.8Ghz. I then put the new 2600K in the P8P67LE board and nothing, no post and no boot.
Within 3 hours of me buying the chip and me thinking I got a great clocker, I took it back to MicroCenter and they exchanged it for a new one. They let me choose any Batch# I wanted and even let me look at their stock in the back to see if I could find another 3103B3XX chip but no luck. That chip was the last one and all they had was a ton of the 3115BXXX chips and one 3108B401 chip which I bought. I can get the new chip rock stable, LinX 25 runs maxmem at 4.8Ghz 1.44vcore. This indeed is not the great clocker I was looking for. Additionally, I am unable to get this new chip stable at 5Ghz LinX up to 1.475vcore and it won’t bench past 51X multi. I have a water setup that runs great and keeps my chips temps under 80C LinX stable.
So, I am looking for feedback. Did I really kill the 3103B306 chip with only 1.56vcore? I see people benching all the time at that voltage on water so how did I kill my potentially great clocker while doing a quick 32M run? I will probably try to sell my new chip at a discounted price (only about 4 hours on it) and try another batch in hopes of a great clocker.
Just trying to figure out what I did wrong and how I killed that chip with 1.56vcore and no temp issues?