What's the deal with Conroe MBs dying when overclocked?

Eastcoasthandle · 06-21-2006, 09:56 PM

OK, if you don't mind telling us the community what's going on here? I am reading post that the badaxe is dying when you overclock it with a core 2 duo. I have read other posts with other MB. Fugger, FCG, etc. can you give light to what's going on here? I am ready to purchase but if there are bugs I would rather wait until their are fixed. I seen one post that pointed to a fried mosfet on a badaxe. What's going on here?

Supertim0r · 06-21-2006, 10:02 PM

IIRC FCG told it was with vdimm modded board

K404 · 06-21-2006, 11:58 PM

Random thought based on nothing:

Maybe the new PWM revision is using non-ideal components? a la 7900GT

Thats really a stab in the dark, based on the original post and some creative thinking, nothing more!

eva2000 · 06-22-2006, 12:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Supertim0r

IIRC FCG told it was with vdimm modded board

yeah believe it happens after you do the vdimm mod..

Eastcoasthandle · 06-22-2006, 12:24 PM

is that so?? Interesting

kiwi · 06-22-2006, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Eastcoasthandle

is that so?? Interesting

No, my board died because of dead pci slot (took X-fi sound as well)

mdzcpa · 06-22-2006, 01:53 PM

Hmmmm....subscribed.

With my x6800 and bad axe on the way, this thread has me more than a bit concerned. Any reports of CPU harm done when the mobo dies?

ea6gka · 06-22-2006, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by kiwi

No, my board died because of dead pci slot (took X-fi sound as well)

was the same board as the one who gave you trouble with bios settings?

FUGGER · 06-22-2006, 01:57 PM

The problem happened with the older A and B rev chips.

No chip damage to anyone so far. One report of a sound card being killed is the only hardware I have seen reported dying as a result.

Both of my boards were unmodded, my second board may be condensation related but no way to confirm.

Vapor · 06-22-2006, 02:02 PM

I've had one die...no vdimm mod (wasn't even pushing the memory hard), didnt take anything with it.

ea6gka · 06-22-2006, 02:06 PM

oh crap, are there any symptoms , i mean have they warned that they were about to die?

Vapor · 06-22-2006, 02:08 PM

If running 400x10 under air is a symptom, then I guess I had one, otherwise no.

(And that's why I had no SS's, just camera shots of my 4GHz air run)

mdzcpa · 06-22-2006, 02:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FUGGER

The problem happened with the older A and B rev chips.

No chip damage to anyone so far. One report of a sound card being killed is the only hardware I have seen reported dying as a result.

Both of my boards were unmodded, my second board may be condensation related but no way to confirm.

Okay, this doesn't sound too threatening then. I'm going to push everything along as far as I can on water before I move to phase. I'm going to monitor the progress and move slowly. That way, in case the mobo goes, I'll have a better idea of what the problem was.

Call me crazy, but I love all this new hardware trail blazing

Johnny Sack · 06-22-2006, 02:18 PM

For the record how many confirmed Intel boards have blown, OCing or stock with Conroe?

I swear I read of an Intel board dying with no mods and another one with a blown fet near the RAM(modded).

Vapor · 06-22-2006, 02:21 PM

I'd say that >25% of the boards had blown...and wouldn't be AT ALL suprised if it were >50%

sierra_bound · 06-22-2006, 02:25 PM

My Bad Axe also died after a couple of weeks. A few people also lost their RAM along with their boards. My RAM survived.

Although people have gotten great results with the Bad Axe, I just don't think the board was designed for extreme overclocking. I'm moving on to something else.

The funny thing is that my AOpen Yonah board is still chugging along, and it's suffered a lot more abuse at my hands than my Bad Axe board.

ea6gka · 06-22-2006, 02:26 PM

oh noes...already in love with it

Eastcoasthandle · 06-22-2006, 03:05 PM

here are reports here in this thread post 178
&
Here post 193

Can anyone else confirm burnt dimm mosfets as in post 193??
Or damaged caps or other fets? f you do could have damage like this on your conroe board please, please, please take a decent photos and post them here.

this is from post 193

sierra_bound · 06-22-2006, 04:55 PM

My board does not show that damage. In fact I can't see any damage anywhere.

I don't think the same thing is responsible for killing all the boards that have died. There have been a few cases where users reported VDimm suddenly surging above 3v which of course is not good. Maybe Intel will fix some of the problems in the next revision. But there's no way I'm going to buy another Rev.304 board.