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

[Erklat]

The core can't perform correctly if you follow many of the overclocking guides that tell you to disable the IMPORTANT features and or settings. These very settings keep these kinds of things from happening, but I bet you think that is irrelevant as well, right?

So you are proposing that disabling c-states, speedstep and the rest of advanced features induce malfunctions like this? Well that's new.
Guess that's why they come disabled by default when I load system optimized settings

So, anyone kill any chips WITHOUT first running them under extreme conditions??

First post. CPU pwnd via telephone on stock