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Rampage IV 3960x BSOD 0X0000124
Hi All-
Have an interesting and am trying to tease it out.
I was overclocking like crazy for 3 days or so (got up to 5000mhz). Anyhow, after all my overclocking I went into Windows for real (not just for benching). I reset all my BIOS settings etc.. etc.. I started getting Unrecoverable_Hardware BSOD's. This was happening every 5 minutes or so. My AMD driver kept resetting so I figured it was driver issues. I used a restore point and the errors occurred within a greater period of time. I then began the hardware portion of my troubleshooting. Actually I first did a flash back of both onboard BIOS'es. Went back into windows, same problem. I switched off the lanes for each of my VGA cards. With all three on, same probem. Each one individually same problem. I have a few RAM kits, tested each individually.
I watched my voltages and temps, they were all high. It is a processor that runs hot, but I am under water. And they usually are in the 20's. Running in the 50's. I reseated the processor, water block etc... No dice.
Okay, here goes. I checked out my voltages in BIOS and all seemed fine. I decided to up the Vcore from the CPU's 1.18 or so to 1.4. Everything has worked fine for 2 days. still works fine right now too. Sleeps fine, everything. Of course, this brought up the wattage and temps at no load. When I run Prime95 core 5 gets up to 91, obviously the Intel thermal sensor kicks. The other cores about 70 or so.
I don't have the minidumps as I just tried to reinstall Windows on my regular HDD, in the process I broke my startup RAID. Which I don't really care about as I am going to be install new vid cards along with a new processor or MOBO.
I can run at full load (even overclock to 4700 and my ram to 2133, it's XMP raating). The RAM taxes the processor more than anything. Another thing that affect core 5. The LGA 2011 CPU's are the RAM controllers too.
The question is do you guys think this is a CPU problem or MOBO problem. IMO it is CPU but I just don't know for sure. It's crap as it is relatively new and I can't RMA it to Intel as it has been overclocked ($1000.00).
Thanks!
Jeremy