remember300
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I bought a Intel 4690K online, I thought great deal as i got it for 135 quid little did I know it was a motherboard cooker 
I thought this was going to be a nice little upgrade for my rig I've been building to have as a little spare, so that my brother in law and niece have something to game on with me when I'm up in the loft on the main rig
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However when it arrived I popped it in replacing my Pent K edition G3258 CPU I had in there for general games, It's onboard GPU unit was even adequate for some minor games at 720 who'd of thought. The motherboard it went into was a MSI Z-97 Guard Pro and the CPU ran silly hot, so I went into the BIOS and my god it was running at 1.75V :O ... (yes i did go Colon with a capital o, lol.) I then dropped it down to a better 1.35V which gave no problems until it was restarted then boom back up to 85'C and the H55 that was on it had a pipe that felt too hot. Boom the PC just turned off and that was that PSU would not start and just clicked the fan span up and then stopped. Dead PSU I thought, so I replaced the EVGA Superflower 600W with a Corsair CX500, this was just to run the mainboard and the peripherals no GPU at the moment.
Again nothing the LED's came on but sadly nobody was home. When pressing the On button the system did nothing, so I bridged the switch point on the MOBO to no avail.
Worried I may of cooked the CPU or something I tried the older CPU and nothing but no Unicorn smoke so i thought the caps where still fine and the MOBO posted then died again. Tried removing the BIOS cell as i wanted to rule everything out and nothing again. So I bought a 2nd MOBO, I could see on the Ebay listing what the problem seemed to be which was a few bent/ moved CPU pins which for me is not a problem with moving back with my ESD tweezers and magnifying glasses. The board in question for this was a ASUS Sabertooth Z97 S, a marmite board for sure but with ambient lighting they looked cool to me . I put the Pent K in after doing the minor repair to the pins and boom a sabertooth for 80 quid with all but the I/O plate put the GPU in and tried both PSUS tested it extensively with benchmarks and games even a 24 hour test no problem. I was very happy So I put in the new CPU and I check the BIOS (UEFI) what ever you want to call it. And its sitting at 1.75 again I drop it and its stable running fine I restart check the BIOS and then nothing ti just turns off never to be used again.
Intel are honoring the Warranty according to the person I got this from but I am now two motherboards down and I'm rather frustrated as he says "well it was working when i sent it".
Sorry for the long story can anyone suggest whats happened, if I can fix it at all and where i stand.
Yours truly
R300
I thought this was going to be a nice little upgrade for my rig I've been building to have as a little spare, so that my brother in law and niece have something to game on with me when I'm up in the loft on the main rig
.However when it arrived I popped it in replacing my Pent K edition G3258 CPU I had in there for general games, It's onboard GPU unit was even adequate for some minor games at 720 who'd of thought. The motherboard it went into was a MSI Z-97 Guard Pro and the CPU ran silly hot, so I went into the BIOS and my god it was running at 1.75V :O ... (yes i did go Colon with a capital o, lol.) I then dropped it down to a better 1.35V which gave no problems until it was restarted then boom back up to 85'C and the H55 that was on it had a pipe that felt too hot. Boom the PC just turned off and that was that PSU would not start and just clicked the fan span up and then stopped. Dead PSU I thought, so I replaced the EVGA Superflower 600W with a Corsair CX500, this was just to run the mainboard and the peripherals no GPU at the moment.
Again nothing the LED's came on but sadly nobody was home. When pressing the On button the system did nothing, so I bridged the switch point on the MOBO to no avail.
Worried I may of cooked the CPU or something I tried the older CPU and nothing but no Unicorn smoke so i thought the caps where still fine and the MOBO posted then died again. Tried removing the BIOS cell as i wanted to rule everything out and nothing again. So I bought a 2nd MOBO, I could see on the Ebay listing what the problem seemed to be which was a few bent/ moved CPU pins which for me is not a problem with moving back with my ESD tweezers and magnifying glasses
. The board in question for this was a ASUS Sabertooth Z97 S, a marmite board for sure but with ambient lighting they looked cool to me . I put the Pent K in after doing the minor repair to the pins and boom a sabertooth for 80 quid with all but the I/O plate put the GPU in and tried both PSUS tested it extensively with benchmarks and games even a 24 hour test no problem. I was very happy So I put in the new CPU and I check the BIOS (UEFI) what ever you want to call it. And its sitting at 1.75 again I drop it and its stable running fine I restart check the BIOS and then nothing ti just turns off never to be used again.Intel are honoring the Warranty according to the person I got this from but I am now two motherboards down and I'm rather frustrated as he says "well it was working when i sent it".
Sorry for the long story can anyone suggest whats happened, if I can fix it at all and where i stand.
Yours truly
R300
