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My Sandy Bridge Nightmare

Balb0wa

Balb0wa

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Came on wed, with an asus p67 pro, thursday wouldnt boot, tried clearing cmos, removing battery, power etc.

Thought its bound to be a dead motherboard, so i ordered a gigabyte ud4, came today, still no boot !

Looks like a dead chip, will have to order one for sat delivery now, should have stayed amd :mad:

Thing is, the asus could be dead also, soon find out
 
=VTA=MANFACE said:
What's wrong with these sandy Bridge's , they seem to be very fragile ?
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personally i put it down to early adopter teething problems caused by immature mobo's/bios's as more people seem to be having problems with ASUS/SB combo's.
 
VoG said:
personally i put it down to early adopter teething problems caused by immature mobo's/bios's as more people seem to be having problems with ASUS/SB combo's.
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No problems here (touches wood) running an i5-2500k at 4.3ghz on an Asus P8P67...
 
You are running a 2500k and he is running a 2600k. Sounds like you're running a comfortable overclock there nlel, a bit like me. I have my 2500k running at 4.4Ghz at around 1.3V with an Arctic Freezer 7 Pro Rev. 2. Gets up to around 65 celcius after hours running Prime small FFTs on all four cores.
 
PCM2 said:
You are running a 2500k and he is running a 2600k. Sounds like you're running a comfortable overclock there nlel, a bit like me. I have my 2500k running at 4.4Ghz at around 1.3V with an Arctic Freezer 7 Pro Rev. 2. Gets up to around 65 celcius after hours running Prime small FFTs on all four cores.
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I tried to go higher and it will not boot. I am surprised you are getting temps up to 65C after hours running Prime 95 with a Artic Freezer 7 Pro rev 2. I am getting 71C max @ 1.280v with a Akasa Venom a better CPU cooler (in theory). This would suggest you are running with a lower voltage (unless my installation of the Venom is crap but I do not think so, its 17C cooler then stock)
 
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Well the rest of my case has some pretty fast running fans all over it so that could be helping, too. The thermal compound (MX-2 I think) came pre-applied in a beautiful thin layer as well which seems to be doing the trick. I can up the voltage slightly and push it a little further but I don't really see the point as it doesn't seem to gain me any 'real world' performance benefit. All it does is create more heat and use more power.
 
Revolution6000 said:
Well you also have to take into account that people tend to only post when they have issues, as with any product unfortunately people are going to get one that is faulty. I'm sure you'll see a similar amount of posts whenever the next CPU launches.
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i cant remember any other launches with issues like this though
 
No problems here either, been upto 4.80Ghz with 1.45v and had the memory upto 2133MHz with 1.65v. Primed for an entire week, all good. :)
 
Gibbo said:
No problems here either, been upto 4.80Ghz with 1.45v and had the memory upto 2133MHz with 1.65v. Primed for an entire week, all good. :)
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nice, well ive ordered a new cpu and a frio cooler from ocuk for delivery tomorrow, just want it sorted, will sort the rma or whatever when im happy
 
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