Question on board integrity

[Mgutierrez33]

I had a rig that contained a Z68 Maximus IV Gene Z/Gen3 and a 2600K. I was a nub when dabbling in overclocking and killed the processor (long story short). If the processor was killed from poor overclocking, does that typically mean the board is cooked as well, or would the board still be good to use for another processor?

 

[airdeano]

not in all likely the board has bounced too, its just doing (within its tolerances)
BIOS instruction. if it folded under voltage constraints.. doubt the mobo is damaged.

usually in PCIe or RAM slot is where I have had failure and they it got the CPU
due to the over-volt or short to ground. and that's pretty much physical failure.

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

I have that same board and fried a 2500k on it and never had an issue putting another in. Mine was because the CPU was bad though, not from poor overclocking.

 

[Mgutierrez33]

Thanks for the responses guys... Yeah I derp'd SUPA hard overclocking this thing, was feeding it 1.38V @ 4.6 Ghz on an... Antec h2o 620 LOLOLOL... yeah... that's a mistake I haven't made again on mine OR anyone else's PC x-)

 

[Deejeta]

mate i had the exact rog board before my current deluxe mb. tough as old boots those genes are.

 

[jamesriley94]

Thanks for the responses guys... Yeah I derp'd SUPA hard overclocking this thing, was feeding it 1.38V @ 4.6 Ghz on an... Antec h2o 620 LOLOLOL... yeah... that's a mistake I haven't made again on mine OR anyone else's PC x-)

I'm not too sure how that would have killed the chip?

What happens to it now?

That's not a particularly high voltage at all, and if temps became a major issue, the chip would auto shut itself down to prevent damage?

 

[alpenwasser]

I'm not too sure how that would have killed the chip?

What happens to it now?

That's not a particularly high voltage at all, and if temps became a major issue, the chip would auto shut itself down to prevent damage?

Indeed 1.38 V does not seem super high to me either. I ran my 2600k @ 1.38-something for
many months without anything happening to it, and as jamesriley says, thermal protection
should just shut your system off if temps get too high (at least as far as I have been informed,
I never got to that point myself).

This seems a bit strange to me :headscratch:

 

[Mgutierrez33]

Well my chip was kind of a piece of sh*t. One day I turned on the PC, checked temps... and at IDLE it was hitting almost 60C. I turned down the volts and the clock speed to OEM... same thing. The second the system was stressed int he slightest the temps would vault well over 80C+. Even swapped over to an H100i, the exact same thing started happening again. Nothing I ddid made a fat load of difference :-(

 

[pcjunkie429]

Well my chip was kind of a piece of sh*t. One day I turned on the PC, checked temps... and at IDLE it was hitting almost 60C. I turned down the volts and the clock speed to OEM... same thing. The second the system was stressed int he slightest the temps would vault well over 80C+. Even swapped over to an H100i, the exact same thing started happening again. Nothing I ddid made a fat load of difference :-(

Damn. Sounds like you got the complete polar opposite of "winning the silicon lottery." Hope your luck is better with this new build.

Cheers! :beerchug:

 

[Mgutierrez33]

Damn. Sounds like you got the complete polar opposite of "winning the silicon lottery." Hope your luck is better with this new build.

Cheers! :beerchug:

I most certainly did, sir... but then that's typically my luck. These days it's been getting a bit better, albeit with far lesser hardware (as is evidenced by my signature). The GTX 670 I WAS using went to my girlfriend's rig, which I have posted int he rig's section along with my own take on the Seidon 120M, and THAT thing overclocks ITSELF to like 1105 or so Mhz, so I deffo won out with that one (reference card btw). I also got some really good Corsair Vengeance white LV RAM that happens to accept overclocking with zest and zeal and is only being held back by an FX 4100 and a 970 northbridge; pretty sure it's good for 2133 Mhz. Admittedly, this 4100 is at LEAST above average as far as I can tell and does some decent overclocking to help alleviate the bottleneck this thing creates a little bit.

The remnants of my Intel build are being kept to the side for a rig for my younger brother who goes into his senior year of High School this coming year. He already has a 750W PSU and his own GTX 560 to put towards it, all it needs is a processor and two case fans and he's golden. Prolly not gonna overclock the processor at first for him on account of him only being able to afford the processor itself, so stock cooler it is -_-. I WILL however undervolt it for him as much as I can, and thankfully I got around to updating the BIOS on it to accept Ivy processors so he'll most likely be looking at a 3570K for this one. With any luck HIS processor will fare FAR better than mine did, but the way my purchases have been going lately that should be the case