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new i3770 k kaput!!

Sounds like intel are being gents. Call this an annoying and luckily cheap lesson. why the **** boards allow you to pick that sort of voltage is beyond me.
 
MooMoo444 said:
Even if he did put 1.9 through it, surely the CPU would just turn itself off once the temp rose (which I'd imagine it would pretty quickly at that voltage)?
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Damage would have been done at that voltage level before temps would have risen enough to trip thermals.

Kaktus69 said:
Will the Sabertooth even allow you to put 1.9v through a chip without any warnings?

From memory, on a MVG you have to enable "Extreme OV" and disable cpu voltage monitoring to put more than ~1.4 volts through a chip without getting an overvoltage error at POST.
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Not sure about that specific board but plenty will let you tap is upto silly levels of vcore and reboot without any warnings - some will flag an over-voltage message on boot up but in many cases its just an alert - it still applies the voltage.

I've done it once before tbh - fortunatly was just a £20 celeron - in a hurry to get to work I accidentally mixed up the voltages I was using for the RAM and VCore and fried the CPU (didn't help that board had them one above the other on the same BIOS screen as VDIMM and VDDC or something like that).
 
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