Another One Bites The dust

[Dragon]

And another one and another goes, another one bites I said Hay I am gonna get you too, another one bites the dust.

Well it is official, I Dragon the Destructor has sent a perfectly good 2600K CPU to the great overclocking heaven. I killed it by overclocking it to death...... Kinda funny story actually, I was be bopping along at 5.2 GHz, decided to redo the OS everything went fine I installed the drivers like a good little boy does and then upon reboot nothing notta zip..... At first I though it was PSU, but I used another one, then I switched out boards still got zip, tried different configurations and still nothing. Its been a long time since I torched something........

[foxmobouser]

I take it your volts were over 1.4 on it?

[Cody_Irwin]

Ouch, think intel wants to be a good sport and give u a replacement? =P

[Blacksmith1]

Hope you had your guide handy.

[Dragon]

I had it set to 1.46 that's low considering what Asus AI Suite II/OC tuning put the voltages at for there overclock. I was going more for a BCLK overclocking which I was able to reach 111 before it went poof. Weird thing is Even though it's not working The CPU still gets pretty warm I just have 0 video, also the motherboard does a reboot refresh eveytime I boot it. Either Way I still have the 970 Monster cruising @ 4.3 GHz, and the Core i5 750 @ 4 GHz serving as a HTPC. I was thinking on replacing the 2600K but decided against it, I will be looking into AMD's Bulldozer Octo Core. and use it as a overpowered, overclocked, overbuilt HTPC LOL.......

[Cody_Irwin]

hrmmmm, have you tried resetting the bios via the reset bios button or w/e or removing the battery on the mobo leave it undone for like a minute then put the battery back in and then see if it boots up??? Maybe ur bios is just hardcore crashed and hopefully can be fixed? I would try this if you havent, and if not man I hope you best of luck and keep us update on what ur doing :-\

[foxmobouser]

I had it set to 1.46 that's low considering what Asus AI Suite II/OC tuning put the voltages at for there overclock. I was going more for a BCLK overclocking which I was able to reach 111 before it went poof. Weird thing is Even though it's not working The CPU still gets pretty warm I just have 0 video, also the motherboard does a reboot refresh eveytime I boot it. Either Way I still have the 970 Monster cruising @ 4.3 GHz, and the Core i5 750 @ 4 GHz serving as a HTPC. I was thinking on replacing the 2600K but decided against it, I will be looking into AMD's Bulldozer Octo Core. and use it as a overpowered, overclocked, overbuilt HTPC LOL.......

Me thinks the BCLK did you in, I've heard its a no no to mess with that, not to say that the high V core didnt't help. The sad thing is the Sandy Bridge motherboards can do alot more than the chips can.

Recommended volts for 2600k are up to 1.38, 1.38-1.4 increased degradation, over 1.4 damage to cpu.