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hakukiki
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10-10-2016, 08:12 PM
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Hey everyone! I received a motherboard CPU combo for free from my cousin since it had been acting up. He mentioned it overheated and would crash unexpectedly. I installed it in a test rig to see how it performed—CineBench scored 1847 at around 70°C, then it would crash and restart. After rebooting, it would run for 3 to 15 minutes before failing again. Prime95 shows the CPU throttles quickly under load, even during the toughest tests.

My system uses an i7-4790K with a stock Intel cooler I customized onto. It has a Gigabyte Z97mx motherboard, 2x4GB HyperX Fury DDR3 RAM, an 870 EVO 500GB SSD, and a 500W non-modular power supply.

I focused first on the temperature issue by setting the CPU Vcore to its minimum before seeing a blue screen (1.002V). This lowered the temps but didn’t stop the crashes. I tried reducing speeds: lowering the base clock from 4GHz to 2.8GHz and boosting from 4.4GHz to 2.9GHz per core. Still, crashes occurred after each change.

After a crash, the BIOS would flag a boot failure. Interestingly, it seemed more stable during stress, often failing only at the end of the test rather than midway through. I’m checking older forums for newer fixes, but wanted to know if there’s anything updated. Let me know your thoughts!
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hakukiki
10-10-2016, 08:12 PM #1

Hey everyone! I received a motherboard CPU combo for free from my cousin since it had been acting up. He mentioned it overheated and would crash unexpectedly. I installed it in a test rig to see how it performed—CineBench scored 1847 at around 70°C, then it would crash and restart. After rebooting, it would run for 3 to 15 minutes before failing again. Prime95 shows the CPU throttles quickly under load, even during the toughest tests.

My system uses an i7-4790K with a stock Intel cooler I customized onto. It has a Gigabyte Z97mx motherboard, 2x4GB HyperX Fury DDR3 RAM, an 870 EVO 500GB SSD, and a 500W non-modular power supply.

I focused first on the temperature issue by setting the CPU Vcore to its minimum before seeing a blue screen (1.002V). This lowered the temps but didn’t stop the crashes. I tried reducing speeds: lowering the base clock from 4GHz to 2.8GHz and boosting from 4.4GHz to 2.9GHz per core. Still, crashes occurred after each change.

After a crash, the BIOS would flag a boot failure. Interestingly, it seemed more stable during stress, often failing only at the end of the test rather than midway through. I’m checking older forums for newer fixes, but wanted to know if there’s anything updated. Let me know your thoughts!

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