Quote Originally Posted by zero3 View Post
I've recently OC-ed my rig to 2.8Ghz and let it dual orthos over night..
The E6400 was running @ 2800Mhz and the Kingston DDR800 wich are default rated @ 5 - 5 - 5 - 18 @ 1.8v were running 4 4 4 10 1.9v DDR800 1:1 .. i let it run for about 8 hours dual orthos .. everything was fine..
After i stoped it i've decided to see if it can get some more.. (Note : the vcore was 1.325v manually set .. and the vmem 1.9v .. while the others on auto) I rised to about 3.2Ghz (400x8) and kept the ram settings unchanged.. 1:1 .. it ran dual orthos for about 30 mins again.. and at some point it died.. some nasty pop sound camed out of the mobo.. and a burnt smell.. I sent the mobo back and they replaced it without any comments.. my question is .. Did those auto settings in voltages pump too much voltage in the north bridge? since the only thing that died was the mobo.. and i have the feeling that while i was rising the freq in windows .. the mobo kept upping the voltages.. cand any 1 explain this ?
did you look to see what burnt?