Question Can my i3 12100f cpu be dead after ram oc?

[ashayii]

Ok so I was running my i3 12100f with 3500mhz ram at gear 1 for a few days no problem

Then I was playing around with bios boot feature's and somehow corrupted the bios and it wouldn't boot and VGA debug light was on
then got the bios reflashed by a repair shop I don't remember the cpu they were using but the mobo was working fine there.


Got home and guess what the dram yellow light turns on and I can't boot

Cpu gets hot to touch

Tried every slot with 2 different ram module's

Dram yellow light always on

Btw a few of the cpu fans were bent before but got them bent back to place by the repair shop

Is there a possibility that they cpu they used wasn't using the bent pins for ram and so had no problems booting but my cpu can't function without them?

I'll ask their cpu model tomorrow

In the meantime can someone tell me wether all 12th gen CPUs have the same Pinout or not cuz I wanna be able to rule either the motherboard socket or the cpu out as the broken part

 

[Misgar]

I'm not sure what you mean by "a few of the CPU fans were bent". Are you talking about the blades of a cooling fan, the metal vanes on the CPU heatsink, or the spring loaded Phosphor Bronze contacts in the CPU socket? How did experimenting with BIOS settings end up with bent contacts?

If it's the latter (bent CPU socket pins) then you may be out of luck, if they're not making good contact with the gold plated pads on the underside of the CPU. Trying to straighten these contacts is fraught with problems as they're very delicate and snap off easily.

Regardless of the exact model, all CPUs for a specific socket type use the same pins for connecting to system RAM. You can sometimes get away with a missing 0V or Vcc contact of which there are many, but one missing memory contact and it's game over for that memory channel.

If you hammered the RAM with too way much Voltage in an overclock, i.e. well over the maximum recommmended by the manufacturer, you could have damaged the memory controller in the CPU. Can you remember how many Volts were applied to the CPU and to the RAM during your experiments?

I'd advise against anything over 1.45V for DDR4 RAM. At stock JEDEC speed, DDR4 runs at 1.20V. XMP usually applies 1.35V. Extreme memory overclocks might reach 1.55V with forced air cooling. Liquid Nitrogen even higher.

As for what overclock voltages are "safe" for your CPU, check online for suggestions. The higher you overclock, the more likely you are to destroy your system. What you need to ask yourself when pushing the limits is "Do I feel lucky today?"

 

[ashayii]

I'm not sure what you mean by "a few of the CPU fans were bent". Are you talking about the blades of a cooling fan, the metal vanes on the CPU heatsink, or the spring loaded Phosphor Bronze contacts in the CPU socket? How did experimenting with BIOS settings end up with bent contacts?

If it's the latter (bent CPU socket pins) then you may be out of luck, if they're not making good contact with the gold plated pads on the underside of the CPU. Trying to straighten these contacts is fraught with problems as they're very delicate and snap off easily.

Regardless of the exact model, all CPUs for a specific socket type use the same pins for connecting to system RAM. You can sometimes get away with a missing 0V or Vcc contact of which there are many, but one missing memory contact and it's game over for that memory channel.

If you hammered the RAM with too way much Voltage in an overclock, i.e. well over the maximum recommmended by the manufacturer, you could have damaged the memory controller in the CPU. Can you remember how many Volts were applied to the CPU and to the RAM during your experiments?

I'd advise against anything over 1.45V for DDR4 RAM. At stock JEDEC speed, DDR4 runs at 1.20V. XMP usually applies 1.35V. Extreme memory overclocks might reach 1.55V with forced air cooling. Liquid Nitrogen even higher.

As for what overclock voltages are "safe" for your CPU, check online for suggestions. The higher you overclock, the more likely you are to destroy your system. What you need to ask yourself when pushing the limits is "Do I feel lucky today?"

I got an i5 and it is working, the reason I asked about the pins was because I didn't know wether they all used the same Pinout or not

 

[Misgar]

Each time Intel or AMD release a new processor socket version, they define the function of every single pin. In case case of Intel, you could fit an i3, i5 and an i7 into the same socket, provided the CPUs came from the same family.

The pinout does not change between CPUs in the same family. Doing so would require different motherboards for each processor number. You'd need one board for an i3, a second board for an i5, a third board for an i7 and a fourth board for an i9, a totally ridiculous state of affairs!

 

[ashayii]

Each time Intel or AMD release a new processor socket version, they define the function of every single pin. In case case of Intel, you could fit an i3, i5 and an i7 into the same socket, provided the CPUs came from the same family.

The pinout does not change between CPUs in the same family. Doing so would require different motherboards for each processor number. You'd need one board for an i3, a second board for an i5, a third board for an i7 and a fourth board for an i9, a totally ridiculous state of affairs!

Yea so the cpu is dead , kind of embarrassing that Intel 12 gen imc couldn't handle 3500 gear 1 and died, set my new i5 to 3200 gear 1 and it's been working for a month now