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

[Donnie27]

ROFL.
Short answer is no.
If you're not an extreme overclocker ( overclocking with dry ice, cascade, LN2 ) it's not going to bug you unless you push the CPU too far on air/water for a relatively long period.

Running it on air at 4GHz @ 1.2V to 1.28V will more than likely do no harm to the CPU and it will live long enough for you to upgrade to a new CPU/platform.

There's always a chance of it degrading or dying but you shouldn't take that as granted.

OK, QFT on both 201 and 208! My bad! I should have said extreme overclocking, not exceeding the Max voltage limits Intel (or anyone else for that matter) set for it.

Thanks penguins.

[QuadDamage]

rofl i borrowed an 980X ES from a reviewer around two months back, he was begging me not to degrade/kill it as he needed it for a review... I pushed it on straight water pretty hard over 4.5Ghz and 1.52V for torture/stabilty and 3D beching, but when i tried benching with only one or two cores enabled, my P6T DLX V1 wouldn't boot for requiring a CMOS clear everytime and keep in mind it was the first time i was forced to manually clear the CMOS ever, i even thought i killed the mobo and/or the CPU. hehe.

[GunGod]

rofl i borrowed an 980X ES from a reviewer around two months back, he was begging me not to degrade/kill it as he needed it for a review... I pushed it on straight water pretty hard over 4.5Ghz and 1.52V for torture/stabilty and 3D beching, but when i tried benching with only one or two cores enabled, my P6T DLX V1 wouldn't boot for requiring a CMOS clear everytime and keep in mind it was the first time i was forced to manually clear the CMOS ever, i even thought i killed the mobo and/or the CPU. hehe.

I guess you confirmed your nick at 100%

[penguins]

OK, QFT on both 201 and 208! My bad! I should have said extreme overclocking, not exceeding the Max voltage limits Intel (or anyone else for that matter) set for it.

Thanks penguins.

cheers mate, i totally agree with 'extreme overclocking' deeeeefinatly not being in the warranty ln2 :\ i am so not that xtreme.