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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