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    Question Default Vcore setting not stable for i5 8400 with Turbo Boost ?

    I ended up going to 1.3V Vcore since 1.25V was still unstable in some cases and it ran fine for a while, until it died in a very strange way. I was messing with some BIOS settings and at some point lost track of the changes and decided to load optimized defaults. Upon restart with the bios...
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    Question Default Vcore setting not stable for i5 8400 with Turbo Boost ?

    Hello everyone, I am having a peculiar problem with a i5 8400 Coffee Lake cpu that I recently acquired from eBay. Upon installing the CPU the system booted normally, however Windows 10 install would crash within 1 or 2 minutes with either MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION or the system would just...