So after spending some money and troubleshooting my system, I found that my 4790K was faulty. My question is:
Can a faulty CPU damage the rest of my system e.g. motherboard, ram, video card, hard drives etc...
Background:
I turned off my PC to restart it one night, then when it tried to boot, I kept getting continuous restarts, no POST screen (System would reboot every 3 seconds). After much troubleshooting, including buying a new PSU, a new motherboard and finally a new CPU i5 4590, yeah I confirmed my 4790K was faulty.
The reason why I'm calling it faulty is because it still works sometimes, it's not completely dead. I've found that if I underclock it and raise the default VCore e.g. to 33x instead of 40x (default) and 1.2v VCore @ 3.3ghz instead of 1v @ 3.3ghz set by auto, it'll boot to POST screen 25% of the time. If I try to leave it as default, it'll probably boot about 1 in every 20 times. Essentially I don't want to spend money on another LGA1150 CPU or even more money on a new motherboard + CPU when my system is only 2 years old.
However, it just so happened that my SSD died during that period I started getting continuous restarts. I can't tell if it was co-incidence or was it somehow related to my faulty CPU.
System:
i7 4790K (Swapped with i5 4590)
Gigabyte Z97 Gaming 7 (Swapped with MSI H81M-E34)
2x 8GB G.Skill 2400mhz RAM
EVA 4GB GTX970 FTW
OCZ Vector 3 240GB
Coolermaster V750 Semi modular (Swapped with Corsair RM650x)
Can a faulty CPU damage the rest of my system e.g. motherboard, ram, video card, hard drives etc...
Background:
I turned off my PC to restart it one night, then when it tried to boot, I kept getting continuous restarts, no POST screen (System would reboot every 3 seconds). After much troubleshooting, including buying a new PSU, a new motherboard and finally a new CPU i5 4590, yeah I confirmed my 4790K was faulty.
The reason why I'm calling it faulty is because it still works sometimes, it's not completely dead. I've found that if I underclock it and raise the default VCore e.g. to 33x instead of 40x (default) and 1.2v VCore @ 3.3ghz instead of 1v @ 3.3ghz set by auto, it'll boot to POST screen 25% of the time. If I try to leave it as default, it'll probably boot about 1 in every 20 times. Essentially I don't want to spend money on another LGA1150 CPU or even more money on a new motherboard + CPU when my system is only 2 years old.
However, it just so happened that my SSD died during that period I started getting continuous restarts. I can't tell if it was co-incidence or was it somehow related to my faulty CPU.
System:
i7 4790K (Swapped with i5 4590)
Gigabyte Z97 Gaming 7 (Swapped with MSI H81M-E34)
2x 8GB G.Skill 2400mhz RAM
EVA 4GB GTX970 FTW
OCZ Vector 3 240GB
Coolermaster V750 Semi modular (Swapped with Corsair RM650x)
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