Hello, I recently built my first computer at a friend’s house. During the build I realized my PSU only had a 4 pin and my MOBO had an 8 pin. Instead of doing the research as I should have, I asked him if I should use the 6 pin pci-e plug. Now that you all are laughing at me for doing that, we all know my PSU took a crap. But… here is my issue. He gave me another PSU because he felt responsible. Turned on mobo (ambit pro 35) and all bios settings were stock. So I changed them back to my OC (q6600@3.4). After booting to windows I went to system and it says it a 3.8GHZ. Went back to bios and EIST and C1E are disabled, still windows shows 3.8 GHz when bios is set at 3.4 GHz. I played a game for a round and it was stable for that so I am assuming its 3.4 as bios shows. Also windows rating (experience index) thing will NOT test CPU it skips to RAM and say it can’t run test. HDD in computer for this test was NOT in when PSU blew.
What I am really asking is
“Will running this in its condition damage the CPU or ram?”
“Should I try to bake the board If its currently working-ish?”
“I know how to test capacitors but what else should I test when looking for fault?”
Entire system is disassembled (no noticeable marks on CPU, or RAM) motherboard components look fine but have darkened area on board (maybe heat damage?) Under the heat sink closest to the 8pin power plug (removing heat sink i found a bunch of little black 3-pin chips on board).
What I am really asking is
“Will running this in its condition damage the CPU or ram?”
“Should I try to bake the board If its currently working-ish?”
“I know how to test capacitors but what else should I test when looking for fault?”
Entire system is disassembled (no noticeable marks on CPU, or RAM) motherboard components look fine but have darkened area on board (maybe heat damage?) Under the heat sink closest to the 8pin power plug (removing heat sink i found a bunch of little black 3-pin chips on board).