Camp, lowering CPU voltages is
exactly what looked like it killed my first 9600BE and since then I am no way going to try it. I started to overclock using lower than stock NB voltage and 1.28v CPU voltage. It went off pretty sudden with C1 errors and never restarted; the last changes I made before it happening for a week under load were lowering NB volts to 1.1v
I would be careful to void undervolting the NB, the common base in all my CPUs giving C1 errors after a while is undervolting the NB - overvolting CPU sub 1.5v is not the problem as long as you can keep the heat around 25°C below maximum core allowed temps.
There's nothing wrong with my current 9850, its the board that blew under load
As for "burn-in": that's a myth, electrically its impossible but there's a big difference between a common engineer and an engineering professor, mountains to moles difference, the latter are the ones who mainly design new CPUs and even they will not be able to explain a lot of CPU happenings we observe. What they "expect" is many times not what we "observe".
Find me one microprocessor engineer who can explain idle instability we all observe.
Find me one who can explain x setting stable, reboot, x setting failed, reboot, higher y setting stable.
Find me one who can explain CPU death after 8 weeks of stock use.
Find me one who can explain the C1 errors on clear CMOS.
Find me one who can explain IMC sudden death when undervolting.
I'll let you know in advance: none. They are strange unexpected behaviors.
In studies, no one is a demi-god, they are humans and they learn things through common laws. Some things are just not in our knowledge unless we have experience of it, simple as that. Everything is proven or negated by practical empirical results, not theory or what someone believes.
Needless to say, I've had these relations within my family for years now, so it's not like I'm going to listen to someone who has less knolwedge, expertise and experience on figuring out microprocessors. Strange, unexplained CPU happenings are still occuring with Phenom.
I've changed onto Abit board to checkout;
a) if the PWM blow with a 9850
b) if I still get idle instability..
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