Stay Focused!

[CalVic]

I nearly fried my AMD FX 8350 Last night... Twice infact!

So, I was a little bored and decided I'd have a play with my Overclock, I wasn't really concentrating at the values I was entering in the UEFI for my vCore, I ended up shoving 1.88 into my chip. Luckily I caught it before the system rebooted and rushed for the power lead that was right next to me (You could say it was a mad dash a hacker would do in a rush to fry his HDDs before the police *knock* on the door.).

If that wasn't enough, after I reset the UEFI and entered the menu to re-apply the settings that I use, I rebooted the system to Windows to find I was running 1.7v on the CPU/NB... Again, I shut the system down and reset the UEFI.

Fuckin' ell' I said to myself. Never done that before - Let alone twice.

So I left it alone and went bed! LOL.

I guess moral of the story is... check over the values before hitting the shortcut to save and exit, and not do it when concentration is lacking.

=00=

 

[Innocent159]

And when you bored overclocking should be your last entertainment or it would be your last entertainment

 

[CalVic]

And when you bored overclocking should be your last entertainment or it would be your last entertainment

LMAO. That is quite true.

 

[SeekaX]

You wouldn't have fried your system. If you put far too many volts through the chip the rig won't even boot. It will just turn off immediately and you have to reset the BIOS. These days frying your chip is pretty hard.
I am surprised you even got into windows at 1.7V. My FX4100 shut down when i entered a 0.5V offset instead of a 0.05V offset.

 

[CalVic]

You wouldn't have fried your system. If you put far too many volts through the chip the rig won't even boot. It will just turn off immediately and you have to reset the BIOS. These days frying your chip is pretty hard.
I am surprised you even got into windows at 1.7V. My FX4100 shut down when i entered a 0.5V offset instead of a 0.05V offset.

Yeah, I guess so.. and these AMD chips are pretty strong in that regard.

You use offset voltage? I tried that once, but after entering the system into sleep and waking it back up it would always over volt like crazy. (C-States, Turbo Core, Cool'n'Quiet etc all disabled)

 

[SeekaX]

Yeah, I guess so.. and these AMD chips are pretty strong in that regard.

You use offset voltage? I tried that once, but after entering the system into sleep and waking it back up it would always over volt like crazy. (C-States, Turbo Core, Cool'n'Quiet etc all disabled)

It was a terrible board for overclocking, offset was the only possibility.