Quote Originally Posted by theoryzero View Post
Been there, felt the same way after buying the E6700. E6600 were just as good for about $300 USD less.
Hmm yeah, alot of Q9450 / Q9550 would go as high as most QX9650 without extreme cooling, this is nothing new.

Damnit, i think i've toasted my raid 0 array

I have a balloon popup from intel matrix storage console 'a drive in a RAID 0 volume is failing. Try to backup data immediately'.

I've never had this before, is the disk actually unusable now or can i format and remake the volume from scratch and it'll be like new??

What made it happen was running 165bclk with 24x QPI and 24x uncore (i was trying to find max stable of both) which were 3960mhz each. This is pretty ridiculous as from what i know they're supposed to top out at 4ghz, but i never expected them to just fry one of my disks like that.