Some Killed An I7-965!!

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Cannot post a link to it but someone put 1.65V through an I7-965 and its now totally knackered:mad: Sounds as though he got his DDR3 & CPU voltages mixed up!!

What an absolute tool or what:eek:
 
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I heard of people killing the QX9650 / QX9770 @ 1.45vcore so i guess it's just bad luck. I would have thought that 1.65 would be quite common under phase / n20 for short benching runs.
 
Should have said he was on air!!! and ran it for 3 days @ 1.65V!!!!!!!!!!

What a stupid waste of money. Intel even warned that I7 high DDR3 voltages can kill the CPU but this guy just put the wrong volts on his CPU as he did not have a clue (he has something like 3 x GTX280 + I7-965-until it broke that is!!).
 
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Save me searching - how did they take it?

"Oh well, it's my own fault. Those voltages were too much for the chip. Haha! At least I'm famous for a day"

or

"This is so unfair OMG. It's like totally wrong of Intel to make a chip that fries when I stick far too much voltage in! I'm going to RMA!"
 
The Halk said:
Save me searching - how did they take it?

"Oh well, it's my own fault. Those voltages were too much for the chip. Haha! At least I'm famous for a day"

or

"This is so unfair OMG. It's like totally wrong of Intel to make a chip that fries when I stick far too much voltage in! I'm going to RMA!"
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Blind ignorance as they blame their brother for a heavy 3 day gaming session on it now it will not post at all as the 1.65V has damaged it!! Wonder if Intel will even replace as they may be able to tell if the volts were too high as think the DTS sensors may register this info.
 
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Kinda makes me glad I haven't taken the voltage plunge yet.
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Your Q6600 is completely different tech to that of i7. Although not reomended you could prob get away with 1.6vcore for benching.

I've even gone all the way to 1.6 with mine.
 
Just reading this from the guru3d thread, sounds like utter BS to me.

well i ordered a new i7 intel are sending me a new one they said that it sould not of burnt out at thoose volts and that it may of been a defect (or something like that) and that they want my chip and they will send me a new one they also said that i should try to overclock and over volt to the same levels again and see if it handles it, I said that im not going to volt it so high and that i will set it at 4.0Ghz
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beh* said:
Your Q6600 is completely different tech to that of i7. Although not reomended you could prob get away with 1.6vcore for benching.

I've even gone all the way to 1.6 with mine.
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You certainly know how to handle your onions then. I admire anyone's plums when they get to that stage of overclocking. Atm 3.3 makes it move pretty darn quick so I'll just be content with that, after all I am a noob. :)
 
One of my E6600 has been running at 1.65v on water at 3.825gig since close to launch and so far seems as good as the day I got it - not a course of action I'd reccomend tho :D my Q6600 is only running 3gig at stock voltage tho - don't really need the extra power so I'd rather not put any extra strain on it for now til I do...
 
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