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

[Donnie27]

No need, there are several examples on XS.org already.
Lots of Q3QP's dying at 1.35V & 1.4V on water.
3005F chips dying on air/water at low voltages or degrading heavily, same batch chips dying in less than 3 hours of extreme overclocking without pushing the voltages at all.
My chip dying after 3 hours of soft LN2 overclocking, tsan's 3013A lasting 50+ hours at 1.93V+ on LN2 while others die within minutes or 1-3 hours at 1.8V.

My other 980X which seems to have degraded just by disabling HyperThreading to try 6 cores/6 threads ( lost 600+ MHz in 1 minute! ).

Whether you like it or not, the 980X's are fragile, some very fragile some generally fragile and some seem indestructible ( keyword = seem ).
We've been pushing chips to the limits & over the limits in the recent and not so recent past, but I can't recall another retail Intel chip ( Core 2 Duo ? Core 2 Quad ? Core 2 Extreme ? Pontium 4 ? ) dying so easily and in big quantities like the 980X's.

If you stop looking for bad people who kill their CPUs on purpose via excessive voltages ( 5V+ ), you'll see that there are plenty of people with dead CPUs who didn't want to kill them in any way, but they did die.

You think I wanted to kill my 6500MHz 6c12t AquaMark 3 980X ? Hipro5's 5.9GHz Vantage chips ( 2 of them died ) ? HiCookie's 6.9GHz monster ?

Quote me saying 980X is strong or not fragile? The only real issue above is simply disabling Hyperthreading. How this processor did overclocking compared to others is MOOT! I didn't post anything about how good or bad of an overclocker it is. I didn't post anything about voltage or anything else but to say it isn't warrantied! Some of these processors will and are expected to die a NORMAL death, killing it and calling it a death isn't the same.

Got nothing to do with if I like it or not, I don't even own one. I said nothing about them being indestructible, what made you think that? I'm not looking for bad people, I'm looking at borderline fraud or irresponsible folks as the title states! It's why I wouldn't worry about buying one except for its price! NOTHING you've said changes that.

Oh wait, I'm not an extreme overclocker and sorry I'll not fix it til its broke then blame a perfectly good piece of hardware. There are more who posted without a problem than those who did. I must have missed the posts where to quote you and the other guy ""The 980X's are dying at an alarming rate without trying to kill them in any way"". Without trying to kill them means not frackin' overclocking LOL! Maybe that's where the disconnect is?

I think this sums what why I Posted!

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

That my friend is for NO REASON. Overclocking as in Over Volting and etc.. isn't "no reason" and isn't warrantied. Call it a weak overclocker, a sissy to tweak and etc.. and I'm not posting here. Hell, I might agree with you. I jumped them for the bad contact pins on Socket 1156, a REAL issue.
Last but not least, I'd love to see some engineer nail down what's causing running 1 core and or disabling HT BUG, if its the Processor, Mobo or BIOS.