Talking Core i5 & i7 32nm Graveyard - share your RIP's

[zsamz_]

mannnn it really suks
i was thinkin of playin wth i3
i'll wait to see if radaja kills his

[road-runner]

So far so good with my 670, been on the cascade twice and under LN2 twice with right at 1.9 vcore. Going to try again this weekend hopefully, with a different board...

[Jor3lBR]

So far so good with my 670, been on the cascade twice and under LN2 twice with right at 1.9 vcore. Going to try again this weekend hopefully, with a different board...

Good to hear that road-runner my 2nd retail has the same batch as yours... Newegg?

[road-runner]

Good to hear that road-runner my 2nd retail has the same batch as yours... Newegg?

Yes... Getting my drives ready, going to throw it on the cascade tomorrow for a few hours to see how the board does and all, get it close then LN2 if I have time, if not probably Sunday...

[rbuass]

I bought another 934 batch....is the last...or it works fine or i will give up 1156...
Good lucky for you guys...waiting your results

[Brian y.]

one dead westmere-was doing 32M at 1.88v after session I ran one wprime at 1.85, when the CPU was warming up on stock bios settings at -50 and I was pulling screenshots off drive it died
One retail 670-OC station flipped out and sent 2.11v through it -150 now it autmatically corrupts BIOS in any board you put it in
One ES 670 at -190 adjusting vcore with eleet and died


That is in the past ten days or so......

[JoeBar]

OMG that's some serious losses...

[CryptiK]

Wow these things are failing left right and center. Sorry for your losses guys.

[Stefan Payne]

USER / BOARD / CPU / VCORE / VTT / PLL / POST ERROR CODE / LIFETIME
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Jor3lBR - EVGA 659 - 1.5vcore - 1.4vtt - 1.80pll - 34 + single beeps - 10secs
PcCI2iminal - Tpower i55 - 1.87vcore - 1.42vtt - 1.35pll
Sniper - Giga H55M-UD2
Leeghoofd -
hiwa - E658 / 670 /1.80 /1.65/1.675/00/ 5h ln2 @ -180
hiwa - E658 /670/2.02 /1.65/1.80/00/10h @-180
hiwa - p55-Ud6 2 X 670/1.50/1.45/1.80/00/30min @10°c
rybass - p55-UD6 3x i5 670

Stefan Payne - ASUS Maximus 3 - Default Clock, VCore and so on, errorcode: switched off and is completely dead now, Lifetime about 3 Weeks.

[Chri$ch]

@ stefan

Core i5 & i7 32nm (Westmere) Graveyard

as i know you had a i5-750?!

[Stefan Payne]

Ah, sorry, you're right, I had a i5/750, manufactured in 45nm.

[ajaidev]

Only one i5 has died in my hands, a 661 and that was due to voltage. A i7 980x is more tolerant than the i5 661 in my experience you really have to know how to overclock the 32nm dual cores and you cant take chances at all.

[dpa]

I think my all new retail 670 is "dead" also.. It just hangs in bios.. I get artifacts when I "surf" in bios setup, and then a hang.. my 661 works still!

[Jor3lBR]

I think my all new retail 670 is "dead" also.. It just hangs in bios.. I get artifacts when I "surf" in bios setup, and then a hang.. my 661 works still!

It doesn't looks like it's dead, otherwise you would not even boot.

Was it like this when you first tried it on the mobo? What's the batch?

[OC Nub]

I have been playing around with a new 660. So far 1.60+vcore hasn't killed it. It is a fun chip to oc but every time I go up on the voltage I get nervous.

[radaja]

thats good to hear.everytime i see someones name who has an i3 or i5 with a new post in this thread
i panic and think "oh hell not another one".

[OC Nub]

^ LOL , I hope to avoid adding this chip to the list. I would like to push it more but I think for now I will leave well enough alone.

It is stable at 4600mhz-1.344vcore, 1.380vtt which is better than I had expected.

[Deux]

Lost two chips in under two days -_-

First, i5 650 L942B799. Run briefly on SS at conservative voltages, <1.55 vCore. Ran for about tow hours before shutting down. Was working fine when I shut down, next day no post on air in multiple boards.

Second, i5 661 L942691. Only ever tested on LN2, maxed out around 1.9v around -160. Zero problems at all, until I changed vCore with Eleet on the P55 FTW E657. First voltage change and the chip died instantly, apparently I'm not the first one to observe this either.

[Jor3lBR]

Lost two chips in under two days -_-

First, i5 650 L942B799. Run briefly on SS at conservative voltages, <1.55 vCore. Ran for about tow hours before shutting down. Was working fine when I shut down, next day no post on air in multiple boards.

Second, i5 661 L942691. Only ever tested on LN2, maxed out around 1.9v around -160. Zero problems at all,7 until I changed vCore with Eleet on the P55 FTW E657. First voltage change and the chip died instantly, apparently I'm not the first one to observe this either.

Sorry for your lost mate.

This is a pattern happening more and more You are the 5th or 6th person that report in with the exact same cause of death like mine.

I think the best way is to either boot from BIOS and not touch on voltages or use EVBot with nice and slow increments.

[thebanik]

thebanik - E661 10h - Gigabyte UD4P

[radaja]

i took my cpu out yesterday and everything looks good so far.
the pins on the board are still in perfect condition and the pads
on the cpu itself looks great(no burns)so ill keep pushing w/out
too much fear.

[BustaH]

1x660 1x 661 and 2x 670 no serious volts in any of them. the cold bug mod for evga e657 ftw I believe killed 660 and 670's all my chips were retail.
the online shop I use are getting very twitchy about selling me anymore

Had no problems at all using them in MSI or Gigabyte boards with cb mods only on the Evga boards. I have no idea what the problem is only that the mod for that board is maybe incorrect? and doing it somehow allows dirty power or overvolts the cpu? isnt this what we are all thinking?

I have a 661 still kicking and another 670 on the way.

btw this happened on 2x e657 AFTER doing the cb mod, both boards worked perfectly before the mod. after the mod no post and dead cpu's.

[Jor3lBR]

1x660 1x 661 and 2x 670 no serious volts in any of them. the cold bug mod for evga e657 ftw I believe killed 660 and 670's all my chips were retail.
the online shop I use are getting very twitchy about selling me anymore

Had no problems at all using them in MSI or Gigabyte boards with cb mods only on the Evga boards. I have no idea what the problem is only that the mod for that board is maybe incorrect? and doing it somehow allows dirty power or overvolts the cpu? isnt this what we are all thinking?

I have a 661 still kicking and another 670 on the way.

btw this happened on 2x e657 AFTER doing the cb mod, both boards worked perfectly before the mod. after the mod no post and dead cpu's.

What method did you use to change the vcore vtt etc? Eleet?

[BustaH]

both of those boards died refused to boot after doing the mod and took the cpus with them. don't get me wrong the evga boards are very good, just that mod is suspect I have no idea what it is doing, I can only guess.
The mod is very simple so not much to go wrong with the actual soldering. the boards died and killed cpu's while trying to boot on air at stock settings btw.

[road-runner]

until I changed vCore with Eleet on the P55 FTW E657. First voltage change and the chip died instantly, apparently I'm not the first one to observe this either.

Eleet got my 670 also, sold the FTW shortly after...