Quote Originally Posted by dejanh View Post
Um, sounds like your CPU is dying my friend...maybe a little too much voltage?

If you run the volts too high it will suffer degradation and then even at the same volts you will not be able to get the same clocks. Over time, this will get worse up until the point where you need like 1.5V to run stock speeds and the chip dies.

On the note of the cold-boot issue...seems to be a lot of people that are having this problem. It is not the PSU for sure. Two people with the same PSU may not get the same problem. Sounds like faulty boards to me...

Did anyone RMA the board and got a working replacement?

Also, I wonder if there is some kind of fault on the boards could that be affecting our OC ability as well? What are your OCs like for people that have the cold-boot problems?
dont take me wrong... i can boot at lower voltages but its no where near stable enough to do anything other than boot the machine.

stock runs at 1.1v with this chip still. even when i ran it on my TEC it needed a fair about of voltage. i can still get 4.4ghz to boot but getting to the desktop is like a 1 in 100 chance.

i have the cold boot problem as well.

at first it wont do anything other than power up the fans and lights. i hit the reset button and then it will hang on DET_DRAM for a min or so then i hit reset again and it powers right up. very odd yes but this isnt the first board this has happened with, 775's included.