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I7-5930K Dead...But why?

DaGozza

DaGozza

DaGozza

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Calling upon the knowledge gods :) ive had my 5930k for about 2-3 years (slighty overclocked) and the other day out of the blue upon booting it come up cpu over voltage to which I immediately shut down, booted the system up again and everything all ok. Then a few days later I started to download The Division 2 beta, while it was downloading I just left it to download, I came back to my pc to find the cpu running at 89 degrees :O (usually runs anywhere between 55-69 degrees while gaming). So again I shut the system down and 5mins later rebooted and everything was running fine again. Then on Saturday I was gaming and (temp was about 62 degrees) and then out of nowhere my pc just shut down. Tried rebooting but it wouldn't even boot and on my ASUS Rampage V Extreme it had error code 00 and red cpu led was on, on the motherboard. So I have tested the cpu in my fiances pc and same thing happened so confirmed its dead. My question is what has caused this? is it possible for the psu to surge voltage to the cpu? did the motherboard decide it wanted to ramp up of the voltage to the cpu? or is it a case of the cpu has just given up? Or will I never know the real reason it happened?

Reason I'm asking is because I don't want to get another cpu if the cause is related to the motherboard or psu? hope that all makes sense and sorry for the essay. Any help is very much appreciated.

Just to add I have Seasonic 1000w platinum psu so its a good psu
 
 
Thank you for your reply and that certainly makes for interesting reading. So glad I posted this now as when I first researched the errors I was getting on the board nothing pointed me towards this (I guess it’s happening to people and they are not realising this is the potential cause). I think I will try contacting ASUS and see what happens. What I will do is post any correspondance (if they even reply) just so anybody else that has this happen knows what they can do.

CuriousTomCat said:
The Rampage V Extreme seems to have a software glitch which randomly bumps up the core voltage to dangerous levels. My advise is to update the BIOS then sell it.

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/5960x-over-voltage.235413/
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?79779-CPU-Over-Voltage-error!-HELP-R5E-5820k
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?87119-Overvoltage
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthre...-v-sudden-cpu-overvoltage-error-for-no-reason
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?59257-5960X-dead-on-Rampage-V-Extreme
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dragonslayer said:
If Asus has a glitch that causes unsafe voltages try and claim money from them as it's their fault they killed your pc
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I’m going to contact them and see what they say, it’s really disappointing if this is the case as when I originally bought the mobo it was considered the best of the best. My fiancé has an ASUS strix mobo on the x99 chipset to so hopefully it’s not an issue across all of ASUS x99 mobo’s
 
DaGozza said:
I’m going to contact them and see what they say, it’s really disappointing if this is the case as when I originally bought the mobo it was considered the best of the best. My fiancé has an ASUS strix mobo on the x99 chipset to so hopefully it’s not an issue across all of ASUS x99 mobo’s
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It's a Rampage V extreme issue. The board killed my 5960X as well. I'm gonna see if I can get Asus to do something about it. I sent the board back to Amazon for a refund, but obviously it still killed my CPU.
 
spoffle said:
It's a Rampage V extreme issue. The board killed my 5960X as well. I'm gonna see if I can get Asus to do something about it. I sent the board back to Amazon for a refund, but obviously it still killed my CPU.
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I have just emailed ASUS, so will let you know how I get on. Honestly no expecting them to do anything but we can hope. If I get no response then I shall be avoiding ASUS products in future which is a shame.
 
Asus customer service is absolute dog ****. I'd be stunned if they do anything. I'm just waiting for Zen 2 and X570 so that I can ditch my Crosshair VI and never touch another one of their products again.
 
DaGozza said:
Calling upon the knowledge gods :) ive had my 5930k for about 2-3 years (slighty overclocked) and the other day out of the blue upon booting it come up cpu over voltage to which I immediately shut down, booted the system up again and everything all ok. Then a few days later I started to download The Division 2 beta, while it was downloading I just left it to download, I came back to my pc to find the cpu running at 89 degrees :O (usually runs anywhere between 55-69 degrees while gaming). So again I shut the system down and 5mins later rebooted and everything was running fine again. Then on Saturday I was gaming and (temp was about 62 degrees) and then out of nowhere my pc just shut down. Tried rebooting but it wouldn't even boot and on my ASUS Rampage V Extreme it had error code 00 and red cpu led was on, on the motherboard. So I have tested the cpu in my fiances pc and same thing happened so confirmed its dead. My question is what has caused this? is it possible for the psu to surge voltage to the cpu? did the motherboard decide it wanted to ramp up of the voltage to the cpu? or is it a case of the cpu has just given up? Or will I never know the real reason it happened?

Reason I'm asking is because I don't want to get another cpu if the cause is related to the motherboard or psu? hope that all makes sense and sorry for the essay. Any help is very much appreciated.

Just to add I have Seasonic 1000w platinum psu so its a good psu
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Asus X99 boards killed two of my 5960Xs, there seems to be a bug as stated that ramps up Vcore randomly that kills chips.
 
DaGozza said:
I’m going to contact them and see what they say, it’s really disappointing if this is the case as when I originally bought the mobo it was considered the best of the best. My fiancé has an ASUS strix mobo on the x99 chipset to so hopefully it’s not an issue across all of ASUS x99 mobo’s
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It is all ASUS X99 motherboards afaik my mobo was X99-S!
No ASUS mobos for me ever again, I had to take the hit on the mobo but the CPUs were replaced.
 
Same here it’s a bug on the rampage V, one of the bios revisions I think.

I had one with my 5930k and luckily it did not kill it but it did throw 1.8v at it a few times on startup until I can’t properly remember but reflashed to older bios I think, could be newer version not sure.
 
koooowweeee said:
I've got a x99 deluxe. Not had a problem yet. Glad I'm on custom water. Might help a bit if it does raise the volts.
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Keeping temperature under control helps, because high temperature itself adds stress on CPU.
But too much voltage still starts to degrade CPU, eventually causing short circuits and burned out parts at component level.
 
EsaT said:
Keeping temperature under control helps, because high temperature itself adds stress on CPU.
But too much voltage still starts to degrade CPU, eventually causing short circuits and burned out parts at component level.
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Yeah it seems the sandy bridge CPUs are degrading. I know mine has hard life before I sold it hehehe.

Just had a quick Google and someone is saying that the problem was fixed early days with a bios flash. I'm pretty sure mine is on the latest. Not even heard of this problem until now. Seems it is all x99 boards as mentioned.
 
My Asus x99 pro would overvolt my 5820k The board died shortly afterwards, luckily twas the chip that survived. A replacement came with later bios revision that seemed to sort the issue
 
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