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killled my q6600?

bdubyah

bdubyah

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well, i got ready to go to bed last night and i turned my PC off, and when i turned it on this morning, before i turned the TV on, i noticed it beep like it restarted. so i turned the TV on and it was doing the 30 second countdown due to an improper shutdown.

well, i shrugged it off and it loaded on into windows fine. but as soon as i clicked on the IE icon, i get a BSOD and it restarts, but when it beeps and the first screen came up where you can see your processor name and hit Del to go to the bios and such, it restarted itself again...and again and again until i finally turned it off.

so i unhooked all the cables, put it up on my table and looked it over. i went ahead and took the battery out and cleared the CMOS. well, i put it back together and turned it on. now it just sits at that white gigabyte screen and does nothing.

anyways, ii just built my mom a PC with a DS3L mobo and a Core 2 Allendale CPU, so our CPUs and mobos were interchangeable. i yanked out her Allendale and put it in my PC, and tada! booted up fine. out my quad in her PC just to check, and it got hung doing the memory check were it kept restarting my PC before.

i had OC'd it to like 3.6, backed it down to 3.4 and was running it at around 1.45v. never went over 1.475 and it hadn't been OC'd for more than 2-3 weeks. guess i killed it somehow?
 
Sounds like it. There is no question that overclocking shortens the lifespan of your chip. 3.6GHz for Q6600 is not unheard of, but it is definitely a very tough OC even on the best of those chips. Running it at that speed all the time can definitely damage the CPU.
 
The missing information makes it difficult to critique your situation, Namely, your cooling solution and Core temps both idle and under load....presumably you know what it was from your OC trials, but it certainly has all the tell tale hallmark signs of a dead cpu.
 
well, it was at 3.6 for maybe 10 mins.

cooling is in sig...xigmatek s1283...

at 3.4 idle averages around say 37C, load mid to upper 60s. lil hotter than most people suggest i know, but i didn't figure it would get that hot often enough to hurt it. guess i was wrong, but i've seen people abuse them worse than that.

well, i started thinking about a replacement CPU so i could give mom hers back ;P and it came down to either another q6600 or an e8400. i went with the dualy this time. i hear they are faster at mostly everything.

quick question while i'm on it. do the 45nm CPUs have the same voltage limits? like 1.45 or so? seems i remember reading they should stay under 1.4.
 
Yes, the 45 nm CPUs should stay bellow 1,4V. I have to admit that this is the first time I heard about someone killing its Q6600. Sorry for that man, next time keep your temperatures lower, hitting almost 70 C is surely dangerous. Yes, there are chips that can stand that, but not all of them have the same tolerance to heat and high voltages.

Oh and you can try to RMA it, if it doesn't have a black spot on it , nobody will know that you've put it trough hell. 😉
 
Heat doesn't kill CPU's anymore, it's the voltage, and not just vcore but vtt as well. When a modern CPU overheats it will just shut down.

Just today I was cleaning viruses off my mothers PC and suddenly it just shut off, I restarted it and went about my business again for a bit and it shut off again. So I looked in the BIOS when I restarted and noticed the CPU temp at 80C, P4 3.4GHz. Her hsf was all clogged up with dust. Anyway, it's been running way too hot for some time now and the CPU is just fine (and back to 35C).
 
You may have blown a power component on your mobo.

I had one DS3L board that "popped" while I was installing XP with my Q6600 overclocked to 3.3GHz @1.31V. After the "pop" she wouldn't hold 3.3GHz unless I poured 1.42V into her.

Opened CPU-Z and realized my Vdroop had gone from ~0.1V to nearly 0.25V. Pulled the mobo and couldn't see anything from the front. Flipped it over and the backside near one of the VRM's was slightly blackened (small area, size of a US dime).

RMA'ed the board...I told Newegg rep I blew it overclocking, just wanted to buy a replacement (which was out of stock, hence why I was asking the rep about them) but they insisted I go thru their RMA program and they sent me replacement for free after evaluating my board.

The replacement DS3L worked like a charm, took my same Q6600 and let me clock her back to 3.3GHz on 1.31V again.
 
Originally posted by: Idontcare
You may have blown a power component on your mobo.

I had one DS3L board that "popped" while I was installing XP with my Q6600 overclocked to 3.3GHz @1.31V. After the "pop" she wouldn't hold 3.3GHz unless I poured 1.42V into her.

Opened CPU-Z and realized my Vdroop had gone from ~0.1V to nearly 0.25V. Pulled the mobo and couldn't see anything from the front. Flipped it over and the backside near one of the VRM's was slightly blackened (small area, size of a US dime).

RMA'ed the board...I told Newegg rep I blew it overclocking, just wanted to buy a replacement (which was out of stock, hence why I was asking the rep about them) but they insisted I go thru their RMA program and they sent me replacement for free after evaluating my board.

The replacement DS3L worked like a charm, took my same Q6600 and let me clock her back to 3.3GHz on 1.31V again.
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He tried the cpu into another motherboard and it still doesn't work, so his mobo is fine. The cpu is surely dead.
 
Originally posted by: Cutthroat
Heat doesn't kill CPU's anymore, it's the voltage, and not just vcore but vtt as well. When a modern CPU overheats it will just shut down.
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I believe that's inaccurate - I think the protection mechanisms kick in at temperatures that produce short-term damage. However, you can operate under that temperature, and at high voltage, which is an extremely high-stress condition that will wear out the CPU much faster than normal operation.
 
Originally posted by: cmv
Sounds suspect. Before I'd write off the Q6600 I'd try it in your Mom's PC.
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He did that! Why don't you people just read everything the man says, before posting???
 
Originally posted by: error8
Originally posted by: cmv
Sounds suspect. Before I'd write off the Q6600 I'd try it in your Mom's PC.
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He did that! Why don't you people just read everything the man says, before posting???
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I did read it but I missed it. To be honest, capitalization really helps for scan readers but still my fault.

edit: Just mentioned the capitalization in passing -- live and let live is my motto so I wasn't criticizing you (bdubyah).
 
yeah, i try to spell everything out, but i'm just too lazy for the capitalization. my bad there i guess.

but yeah, her E2200 is cruising fine right now in my PC, using it as we speak.
 
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