I will share one of my reddit post on the matter so you can know the whole story : View: https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/cehmqz/could_a_security_leak_on_my_system_allows_a/
(if this practice isn't appreciated here, I will post a tldr).
I posted it few days ago and it didnt get much attention but it's whatever since now I just went back on reading about how to properly OC and while I never went crazy on my OC ( 4.4GHz all cores with my 8700k), I think I may have did something really bad after I updated my BIOS (which was few days before my CPU go bad). I was restoring settings from what I could remember since the backup file couldn't be used (...) when I decided to up my clock to 4.7 from the 4.4 I've had always been using. I then started to do some testing with manual voltage but I finally left it on auto because it seemed fine. Here come the mistake, I arrived to the LLC setting which I'd always set to max in the past because I read about it being a good thing to do to ensure stability back when I had a 4790k. What I forgot I guess is that I would use manual voltage with such extreme LLC.
I won't lie, I didnt check my voltage on full load while gaming after applying these changes (stupidity at plain sight right there). I know it was @ 1.2 - 1.25v on idle.
So could these settings set that way have killed some cores before even showing signs of something being not OK?
(if this practice isn't appreciated here, I will post a tldr).
I posted it few days ago and it didnt get much attention but it's whatever since now I just went back on reading about how to properly OC and while I never went crazy on my OC ( 4.4GHz all cores with my 8700k), I think I may have did something really bad after I updated my BIOS (which was few days before my CPU go bad). I was restoring settings from what I could remember since the backup file couldn't be used (...) when I decided to up my clock to 4.7 from the 4.4 I've had always been using. I then started to do some testing with manual voltage but I finally left it on auto because it seemed fine. Here come the mistake, I arrived to the LLC setting which I'd always set to max in the past because I read about it being a good thing to do to ensure stability back when I had a 4790k. What I forgot I guess is that I would use manual voltage with such extreme LLC.
I won't lie, I didnt check my voltage on full load while gaming after applying these changes (stupidity at plain sight right there). I know it was @ 1.2 - 1.25v on idle.
So could these settings set that way have killed some cores before even showing signs of something being not OK?
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