Unlocked And Unleashed...........

Chuggerboom · 11 Jan 2011 at 05:10

"Unlocked And Unleashed" is what Intel have written on their K series Sandy Bridge chips boxes. Have they actually told anyone what you can get out of these chips? Safe voltages and the like...........

It seems like a lot of their chips are failing badly. It serves them right..........A billion dollar company? Too funny

NVid'did'it · 11 Jan 2011 at 05:20

"Unlocked and Choked" would have been more truthful. Regardless still buying 2500k.
Phenom 9850 < i5 2500k.

Chuggerboom · 11 Jan 2011 at 05:24

NVid'did'it said:
"Unlocked and Choked" would have been more truthful. Regardless still buying 2500k.
Phenom 9850 < i5 2500k.

I'm just glad i didn't jump on the bandwagon. It is funny watching the new buyers killing their chips. I will wait to see how things go?

slade · 11 Jan 2011 at 05:40

urr... i wouldnt say it was funny....

NVid'did'it · 11 Jan 2011 at 05:46

Considering I'm buying the bundle today at noon; MSI P67GD55, I5 2.5K, GEIL VALUES, I'm SCARED!
Hope I don't get a retarded batch, as it looks like intel is shipping out with Quality Checks. :/
Don't get your hypes up Chugger, it can happen to Ivybridge too, and that's a 22nm chip.

AlexTrickle · 11 Jan 2011 at 08:55

My 2500K will stay at stock for at least a week as a burn in period so I know its fine. Even at stock these chips fly so won't be that bothered about not overclocking.

If I have a week with no problems I'll start turning it up to something mild like 4.4/4.5.

Doppleganger · 11 Jan 2011 at 08:58

Chuggerboom said:
I'm just glad i didn't jump on the bandwagon. It is funny watching the new buyers killing their chips. I will wait to see how things go?

How is this even funny??? What if it was you that received a dodgy chip???

matthab · 11 Jan 2011 at 09:09

AlexTrickle said:
My 2500K will stay at stock for at least a week as a burn in period so I know its fine. Even at stock these chips fly so won't be that bothered about not overclocking.

If I have a week with no problems I'll start turning it up to something mild like 4.4/4.5.

Same plan for my 2600k arriving next week.

DBT85 · 11 Jan 2011 at 09:15

Amazing how much crap is flying around. There are NOT a lot of chips dying, its been a few at best. Most of it is teething problems with BIOS and ram settings.

Bleek · 11 Jan 2011 at 10:18

Haven't most of them been killed by overvolts? So you could argue it's a user overclocking error.

Justintime · 11 Jan 2011 at 10:23

Am i missing something here? AFAIK only mine and another fellas chip are definetly dead. Mine i can only speak for, died at completly stock setting. Though this is rare its not unheard of and i've had it happen once or twice in about 11 years. I wonder if this is how rumors start? lol.

DBT85 · 11 Jan 2011 at 10:30

Justintime said:
Am i missing something here? AFAIK only mine and another fellas chip are definetly dead. Mine i can only speak for, died at completly stock setting. Though this is rare its not unheard of and i've had it happen once or twice in about 11 years. I wonder if this is how rumors start? lol.

It's not dissimilar to the press convincing us we were all going to die of swine flu/sars/cancer from trees. "The People" see one thing and run with it ignoring any actual facts.

Dark_Angel · 11 Jan 2011 at 10:35

There're few which are dying as far as I know. But obviously those who've got them are more likely to say they're dead than the ones who have got them and let us know they are alive.

My own chip so far is doing fine and dandy, as are no doubt 1000's of others. I believe 1 - 3 percent failure rate is kinda normal for electronic parts though. I'm not if the same could be said for CPU's, but I think since the overclocking on them is different, and also people want to push for 5GHZ, (and people forget they're 32 rather than 45's) a few chips are dying from simple "too much power".

Muel · 11 Jan 2011 at 10:39

I'm shocked how high people are pushing these out of the box. Even some people on here going for 4.6ghz+ on air?! Why? Aim for 4.0ghz first and see how it goes! Just seems obvious to me to take it easy until there's a healthy wealth of knowledge about them online.

Justintime · 11 Jan 2011 at 10:39

Yes, people always forget and use the old rules for the previous die process lol. I do think the cpu is the culprit here in my case though as i've been running the other 2600K since yesterday without issue, the other one died off in hours at everything stock.

Tomcat825 · 11 Jan 2011 at 10:42

slade said:
urr... i wouldnt say it was funny....

Doppleganger said:
How is this even funny??? What if it was you that received a dodgy chip???

Hit a nerve?

Mr Krugga · 11 Jan 2011 at 10:42

First of all, not many chips have actually DIED. A few are degrading over time and require more voltage to be stable. Maybe they weren't stable in the first place? It's not uncommon to find instability after a week of testing.

Second, the chips that died count for less than 0.5% of the CPUs sold. That really isn't enough to consider the batch faulty.

Dark_Angel · 11 Jan 2011 at 10:59

Tomcat825 said:
Hit a nerve?

No, laughing at the misfortune of others (in particular if you don't know if it's the users fault) is hardly funny. Contemplate if it was your setup, and worse, it could render some people without a PC while the parts are being RMA'ed.

As said though, I believe it's a combination of:

1. Lack of knowledge at the moment.
2. People pushing them too hard.
3. Some being naturally faulty.

It could be a mix of all 3 in some instances, or in others, just the 1.

Frenzy · 11 Jan 2011 at 11:14

I was all set buying these new cpus but after reading about locks and failures... I'm not sure I should even bother anymore :S

Think I'll wait for the dust to settle.