KILL your i7 980X AT ONCE (and RMA it)...

[hipro5]

Well yes - you read it well!......

An EASY way to KILL your i7 980X cpu is VERY SIMPLE... and


IF your cpu sucks under LN2 or so, an EASY way to kill it is the following:

Power up you mobo (it doesn't matter what mobo you have)
Go into cpu features
Disable Hyper Threading.
Select 2 Cores for slow die
OR
Select 1 Core for FAST die
Save and exit and.........you're ready - No overclock no nothing -


Here's my story:
I had a decent i7 980 Cpu, benching Vantage ~5900MHz
I putted on the GIGABYTE UD7 mobo
I was playing OK UNTIL I tested the Super-Pi 1M
Disable HT
Test 1M
Disable 4 cores and I left only the 2 of them
Playing 1M OK
Playing and fooling around with 2 cores for a couple of sessions
OK
ENABLE ALL cores and HT
NO Windows at 5800MHz which was EASY before
NO Windows at 5600MHz
NO Windows at 5400MHz
NO Windows at 4000MHz
Booted into Windows with full cores and HT at DEFAULTS = NO GO

I said f(l)uck!...The cpu degraded THAT FAST....


NO

Another Cpu on EVGA
Decent one too

Playing, testing it and fooling around with full cores and HT and LN2 = OK
Next day I had no LN2 to play with so I did some testing on air with DEFAULT EVERYTHING
Testing Super-Pi with 2 cores = OK
I then go into bios and pick ONLY ONE CPU Core with No HT.
Save and exit.
Boots and freezes
Pressing Reset
NO BOOT

CPU = DEAD!....


I then call to a friend of mine who is on air and he doesn't Overclock at all.
I go to him
Get into bios and disable HT and pick one core
Did you do it?
Yes?
OK - Now save and exit -
OK

........

........

George it doesn't booting!....

I go - clear c-mos and retry.

George no go, what happened? you killed my cpu?

Am I at your home? How could I kill your cpu?.....

SHI(f)t!!!


So if Intel hasn't predicted such behaviours, RMA THE BIATCHES guys.....

DEFAULT with ONE core enable and no HT = DEAD.....

RMA - Period



I suggest to the motherboard manufactures to leave into their bioses ONLY the option of the Hyper Threading and REMOVE the option form the core's selectance with a bios update.



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[chuchnit]

WOW that's good info to know. What could be the issue behind this?

[hipro5]

The issue is that I had a decent cpu to bench with and now I have a dead one - that's the issue as for me -

The rest I'm leaving it to Intel to figure it our OR to someone of you who wants to "experiment"....

[Kal-EL]

wow, think I will pass on the murder. thx for sharing dude.

[[200]]

lol @ killing your friends CPU over the phone. slack :P

[hipro5]

lol @ killing your friends CPU over the phone. slack :P

Yea!.........I'm HOT......

[George_o/c]

Yea!.........I'm HOT......

Hahahahahahahahaha I laughed SO hard hhahaha
Thanks for sharing George

I can only imagine your friend's reaction... Talking with you over the phone and suddenly dead CPU

[chuchnit]

The issue is that I had a decent cpu to bench with and now I have a dead one - that's the issue as for me -

The rest I'm leaving it to Intel to figure it our OR to someone of you who wants to "experiment"....

Loosing a good CPU is a BIG issue. Here's to hoping they send you a 6.3ghz Vantage CPU from RMA

[Dahmer]

wow, that's....messed up :o

[chew*]

George no go, what happened? you killed my cpu?

Am I at your home? How could I kill your cpu?.....

Classic

[tool_462]

Simply too beastly of a CPU to allow running at 1 core 1 thread

It takes itself out of the game to punish you.

[BenchZowner]

I ain't trying that, actually I would, but that cr*ppy 980X ES is the only LGA1366 chip I have now, and I need it to review some stuff.

On a sidenote, for the brave ones ( hehe ) if you disable the cores from Windows ( mcsonfig ) does the same thing happen ?

[Splave]

Ive run 2cores a ton of time, what was the batch?

[..::G80::..]

Very COOL! Now I know why my 980X ES died after that i did some super pii with one core...
Thanks Hipro5!

[eva2000]

woah that's crazy, i've tried as low as 2 cores on i7 980X ES but not 1 ... not going to try for now - would be interesting to find out the cause of this though!

[WaterFlex]

Hmm, Intel makes us to stop overclocking its cpus

[Forin]

This issue apply only for 980x of other i7s too? I'm running 4 cores HT OFF underclocked, webrowsing, office work. I'm sure some people are using 2 cores when downloading files or something.

Thank you George for the info. Hope you have no problems with RMA.

[chispy]

Good Finding Hipro and thnks for the heads up , sh*t this new cpus are dying an at alarming rate :/ , ouch. They last only a couple of sessions or just looking at them wrong lol and they die , $1099US Dollars a pop its no fun .

[jcool]

Holy motherf... good thing I never disable Cores. Got a 980X sitting on a P6T Deluxe V2 next to me.
I WON'T try it though

Insane find George.. I do hope they fix this issue, whatever the hell it is.

[Diabolique]

Kill processor that easy, priceless.

Thanks for sharing.

[Linuxfan]

Thanks for sharing. Will forget about disabling cores for now.

[SoF]

very strange (but somehow funny) story georgie
I tested my Q3QP a zillion times with only 2 cores NO HT (actually under air all the time and DICE also mostly) and never remarked any kind of degrading since ~8 months now. I never tested 1 core only and will not test it for sure now Thanks for the heads up - hope Intel or somebody can figure it out!

[..::G80::..]

Very COOL! Now I know why my 980X ES died after that i did some super pii with one core...
Thanks Hipro5!

I used gigabyte-X58-UD7
And after 1 core 5500MHz no HT super pii (SS).
This gulf did one Vantage with 6 cores and HT but then...
But it still works with 1core and no HT!!!

[LardArse]

what bios version was that georgie? there was a microcode update about some weeks ago which Intel seemed really urgent to issue out, maybe this was why

[Lsdmeasap]

Too bad we can't all easily RMA ES CPU's

Thanks for the heads up!