Major mistake

wazza300 · 7 Nov 2013 at 16:19

if I were you I would raise an rma ticket and return it,either place of purchase or with asus

Mrnob · 7 Nov 2013 at 16:52

Do u think it's the mobo and not the CPU? I have RMA now sorted out for the CPU.

wazza300 · 7 Nov 2013 at 16:53

its hard to say but either one of those,wait to hear from the cpu first,im only guessing its the board

Mrnob · 7 Nov 2013 at 16:57

Reason I think it's the CPU is because it behaved the same on a different mobo

mmj_uk · 7 Nov 2013 at 18:14

I don't think raising that voltage would kill the board because it's engineered to supply that voltage, I think it's most likely the CPU because that voltage is way out of spec for it.

Excalibur_2102 · 7 Nov 2013 at 18:31

Ive kept my VTTD on auto since overclocking my i5 2500K on my P8 P67 :/. Perhaps I should change that

Evil-I · 8 Nov 2013 at 09:55

It's pretty bad that the ROG board pushed a completely out of spec voltage when it was on auto though..... I think thats really bad! Yes its a board usually purchased by people who know what they are doing, but they must realise that that isn't always the case as why else would they include the auto modes at all.....

Hope you get it sorted mate.

EI

mmj_uk · 8 Nov 2013 at 14:27

It is but you'd have to be running a pretty extreme overclock for it to set that kind of voltage on auto. My ROG has an "Extreme Overvolt" setting that you have to manually enable to allow such high voltages (I think that's how it works), I don't know if it OP had it enabled or not?

Mrnob · 8 Nov 2013 at 17:40

To be fair my voltages weren't crazy core was at1.35 ram at 1.55 pll 1.65 vttd and vsa both at1.1 before I messed with it doh

mmj_uk · 8 Nov 2013 at 18:00

What clockspeeds were you aiming for/running at?

I can only assume you were trying to get an insane cpu/memory overclock for the board to take the voltages that far on auto. I'm running 4.4ghz/1866mhz on my 4930K with a Rampage IV Gene and if I leave everything set to auto only the CPU vcore is increased from default (to about 1.3V).

If you weren't then something went a bit wrong somewhere.

Mrnob · 8 Nov 2013 at 18:01

CPU was at 4.5 and ram was 2133 just average really

mmj_uk · 8 Nov 2013 at 18:09

hmm, I'm not sure what happened then you'll have to be careful when you get your replacement as it might be a dodgy motherboard? I've tried my memory at 2133mhz with auto and the voltages barely budge.

Mrnob · 8 Nov 2013 at 18:14

Well I've had the mobo since around March last year and it had an i7 3820 inside it until last month. Ram I have was even running at 2333 back then with tighter timings. Never had any problems with it before.

mmj_uk · 8 Nov 2013 at 18:18

Do you keep the BIOS up to date? also do you remember if you set the "Extreme OV" setting to enabled? I've always left it disabled and the tooltip says that enabling it allows extreme voltages, if you had it enabled then perhaps it makes auto act much more aggressively? I'm not sure.

Mrnob · 8 Nov 2013 at 18:23

I've always left that setting disabled. As I understand it's way above normal for exotic coolin. I'm also using the bios from a month or two ago

mmj_uk · 8 Nov 2013 at 18:30

That's got me baffled then, guess you'll just have to be really careful when you get the replacement.

wazza300 · 8 Nov 2013 at 18:36

should never use auto voltages for cpu when overclocking imo

Mrnob · 8 Nov 2013 at 18:48

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=24891709#post24891709

If you look down you can see my old 3820 settings, barely anything had changed when I replaced the CPU.

Harl0 · 9 Nov 2013 at 13:11

Do you have a CMOS reset on your mobo?

mmj_uk · 9 Nov 2013 at 16:08

It might be a combination of the 125mhz bclk and 2333mhz memory that made the board set the voltage so high, but you said earlier ram was at 2133? I can only really guess. For all we know it could just be a coincidence that the CPU (or motherboard?) died in the middle of you messing with voltages.