KILL your i7 980X AT ONCE (and RMA it)...

**George_o/c** · 05-28-2010, 07:37 AM

The CPUs that hipro is talking about are retails dude...

**Toolius** · 05-28-2010, 07:45 AM

Thank you for the heads up hipro sir !!!

wont be trying this with my 980x anytime soon at all ...

Just a shame that you had to loose 2 and kill one 1 more 980x just to find out.

Killing a cpu on the phone !!

That was Epic

Thank you again for the heads up !!
you just saved or destroyed a lot of 980X's

**TinTin** · 05-28-2010, 07:46 AM

I have been playing around 2cores w/o HT with E762, the system seems to be not quite stable, but I never try 1 core w/o HT.

The chips (A0) is still alive, no obvious degrading!

**Hondacity** · 05-28-2010, 08:01 AM

wow this is promising

thanks for sharing

**Hyperhorn** · 05-28-2010, 08:09 AM

Question is which CPUs are vulnerable and is it connected to certain mainboards or BIOS/versions and the microcode update mentioned?
i7-980X retails obviously, but what about i7-980X (ES) and other (older) 32nm hexacores like Xeon (ES)?

**hipro5** · 05-28-2010, 08:27 AM

Originally Posted by LardArse

what bios version was that georgie? there was a microcode update about some weeks ago which Intel seemed really urgent to issue out, maybe this was why

As for my EVGA 760, it was bios Version IX58S664
and as for the GIGABYTE UD7, it was the f7h one.

One batch of the cpu was 3003b1xx and the other one was 3005F210
I think that my friend's was also a 3003bsomething....

**Hondacity** · 05-28-2010, 08:58 AM

Originally Posted by hipro5

As for my EVGA 760, it was bios Version IX58S664
and as for the GIGABYTE UD7, it was the f7h one.

One batch of the cpu was 3003b1xx and the other one was 3005F210
I think that my friend's was also a 3003bsomething....

did your 3005 do vantage well? 6.2ghz doable?

**kill_a_wat** · 05-28-2010, 09:05 AM

I didn't think there was anything wrong with using a single or only two cores w/o HT...surprising...

Unfortunate about your friends 3003B....I think 3003Bs are dying off the shelves and are being replaced with 3005Fxxx

**hipro5** · 05-28-2010, 09:09 AM

Originally Posted by Hondacity

did your 3005 do vantage well? 6.2ghz doable?

Ha, ha, ha......6.2GHz Vantage is a GOLDEN chip my friend....
Nowhere close....
Well both of them did ~5900MHz Vantage

**Hazzan** · 05-28-2010, 09:24 AM

really good info George and like always thanks for your info...

Go into cpu features
Disable Hyper Threading.
Select 2 Cores for slow die
OR

same with mine ...actually I have kill one my 980XE "F" when I want to run on 3D 05 only with 2 core

**Hondacity** · 05-28-2010, 09:30 AM

Originally Posted by hipro5

Ha, ha, ha......6.2GHz Vantage is a GOLDEN chip my friend....
Nowhere close....
Well both of them did ~5900MHz Vantage

last question.

so you tellin me your 3005 is as good as your 3003?

lots of 3005s now chances of getting a 3003 is 1:3

**BenchZowner** · 05-28-2010, 09:34 AM

There are a few 3005F's doing good, but the vast majority of that batch sucks b@lls.
Here's one of the good 3005F's

**Oliver** · 05-28-2010, 10:00 AM

Sorry for your CPU losses George, thanks for posting tought

Originally Posted by LardArse

what bios version was that georgie? there was a microcode update about some weeks ago which Intel seemed really urgent to issue out, maybe this was why

07-05-2010 or sth close to that date (in terms of mrc update rls).

**l0ud_sil3nc3** · 05-28-2010, 10:37 AM

Originally Posted by hipro5

The issue is that I had a decent cpu to bench with and now I have a dead one - that's the issue as for me -

The rest I'm leaving it to Intel to figure it our OR to someone of you who wants to "experiment"....

that sucks, losing a semi golden / golden chip. I am taking it super easy on my X5660, especially since it is an ES. It's weird that this is confirmed on multiple motherboards, oh well hopefully they take care of it (Intel) as it is obviously their problem.

Funny thing your name is George and you are from Greece, and my name is George and I am from Greece as well.

How's the weather this time of year in Athens?

**massman** · 05-28-2010, 10:38 AM

Hm, weird issue. I've run 2c with and without HT tons of times and never had a dead chip.

Either a freakously weird coincidence, or a factor we don't know yet.

**Dahaka** · 05-28-2010, 05:43 PM

OMFG!!.

I have one of this here and maybe i will test on dry ice soon....so NO CORE SELECTION for that session i gues lol.

Thanks for sharing and.....

George no go, what happened? you killed my cpu?

Am I at your home? How could I kill your cpu?.....

This one was EPIC!!!....hall of fame

**radaja** · 05-28-2010, 05:52 PM

Originally Posted by massman

Hm, weird issue. I've run 2c with and without HT tons of times and never had a dead chip.

Either a freakously weird coincidence, or a factor we don't know yet.

well he did say 2c slow death,so maybe its just too slow to see

maybe try the 1c quick death to see?J/K dont try it

**ZL1Killa** · 05-28-2010, 08:36 PM

that is absolutely insane. can't wait to hear what caused it officially by trying 1 core.

**DEVIL K-ce** · 05-29-2010, 12:39 AM

One es chip what I tested run three times bench @ ln2, almost always like dual core without ht, two days ago my friend told me this chip dont wanna overclock more, and now dont wanna post - rip.

Second also es run smth like 40 hours at dual core and is still good. First one and next is B1 step.

**jasonelmore** · 05-29-2010, 12:56 AM

wonders when one of our many intel employee's surfing the boards will find this thread and comment

**M.Beier** · 05-29-2010, 05:06 AM

I had a chip dying with 1c/1t as well, but this was on watercooling, low temp, but high vcore....

**Sam_oslo** · 05-29-2010, 10:57 AM

If 1C/1T benching can kill/degrade the chip, then I'm wondering if applications that use only one Core can have a similar effect even if you are running 6C/12T?

EDIT:
I had seen this thread before, and got scared when Everest Memory Bench had 100% load on one Core while all other Cores were absolutely stuck to 0%.

**nge769** · 05-29-2010, 11:12 AM

Originally Posted by l0ud_sil3nc3

that sucks, losing a semi golden / golden chip. I am taking it super easy on my X5660, especially since it is an ES. It's weird that this is confirmed on multiple motherboards, oh well hopefully they take care of it (Intel) as it is obviously their problem.

Funny thing your name is George and you are from Greece, and my name is George and I am from Greece as well.

How's the weather this time of year in Athens?

I'm originally from Greece too, but my name aint goerge..

Wow i just got my 980X,and I'm not trying that sh*t,lol.I hope Intel gets a grasp on this quick, or its gonna cost them.

Sorry to hear that George,but somebody had to test it..

.

**mk-ultra** · 05-29-2010, 11:13 AM

Originally Posted by Sam_oslo

If 1C/1T benching can kill/degrade the chip, then I'm wondering if applications that use only one Core can have a similar effect even if you are running 6C/12T?

if that would be the case every 980x would be dead or dying

**Sam_oslo** · 05-29-2010, 11:18 AM

Originally Posted by mk-ultra

if that would be the case every 980x would be dead or dying

Yeah, maybe many are dying slowly, you never know. Therefore it is important to know what's going on, and how those 1C/1T benches are killing/degrading the chips.

EDIT:
There is not many applications that sets 100% load on only one core while others are at 0%. These kind of applications are rare and maybe that's why we haven't seen many dead chips yet. But those few out there may be killing the chips slowly, you never know.
We have to find out what's going on before speculating in this way, but it is a good idea to be aware of it and investigate it.

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