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

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Doesn't matter if it is software or a bios change that caused it. It is still a defect.

By your logic going into bios to apply proper voltages and other various settings because AUTO incorrectly does so (esspecially for RAM) is warranty voiding.

I am sorry Donnie but you are making yourself look like a fool.

Disabling cores is not taking a processor out of spec. Hyperthreading is a feature known to cause issues in certain situations and can be disabled (some OEM's disable it by default or hard lock it off in their BIOS). Are you going to tell me that if my processor died with HT off that I killed it? Disabling cores is no different. Esspecially when Intel's own features do this as a power save feature.

If I disable unused integrated devices (fireware, LAN, etc) and something goes wrong; I killed it then as well?

Link to Intel saying running 1 core is alright please?

I am not here to replace google. Various documentation states this is an option and no where does it state it is warranty voiding nor out of "spec".

Really everyone should be asking you to provide a link to Intel saying that disabling cores is bad and warranty voiding.