- Feb 5, 2013
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ok so I had a q6600 overclocked to 3.2ghz in a ABITpro35 mother board. I swapped power supplies and, thinking like a noob, tried PCI-E pin on CPU power plug.
The results = sparks all over and blown power supply.
I corrected the error and replaced the power supply and it booted to windows with no issues except windows now sees the CPU as a 3.6ghz.
Thinking I screwed up the motherboard I bought a new one. this new motherboard also sees the CPU as a 3.6ghz (suppose to be 2.44ghz) power flow to the CPU is (1.30v in bios or 1.284v in windows (via cpu-z)) so its not getting to much power. New power supply checked out fine and a new HDD was used for testing. System ran prime 95 fine for 2 hours for a max temp of 68c (the q6600 is a G0 w/ max temp 71c). So my question... i think it is truly running at 3.6ghz (seen in windows/system) or 3.2 (as in CPUZ) even tho its set to 2.44ghz as there's a major increase in performance compared to the stock 2.44. when the CPU is flawed like this is it harming the new motherboard? or when the CPU fails will it fry something else within the motherboard?
The results = sparks all over and blown power supply.
I corrected the error and replaced the power supply and it booted to windows with no issues except windows now sees the CPU as a 3.6ghz.
Thinking I screwed up the motherboard I bought a new one. this new motherboard also sees the CPU as a 3.6ghz (suppose to be 2.44ghz) power flow to the CPU is (1.30v in bios or 1.284v in windows (via cpu-z)) so its not getting to much power. New power supply checked out fine and a new HDD was used for testing. System ran prime 95 fine for 2 hours for a max temp of 68c (the q6600 is a G0 w/ max temp 71c). So my question... i think it is truly running at 3.6ghz (seen in windows/system) or 3.2 (as in CPUZ) even tho its set to 2.44ghz as there's a major increase in performance compared to the stock 2.44. when the CPU is flawed like this is it harming the new motherboard? or when the CPU fails will it fry something else within the motherboard?
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