And the CPU socket is toasted

xkm1948 · Oct 10, 2017

My cat just send me this picture, some package arrived.

Can't wait to get home and try out the test CPU from cadaveca. Huge thanks to this super awesome guy.

Hopefully the replacement motherboard is not a dud.

RealNeil · Oct 10, 2017

Hopefully, the Cat doesn't burn it to a crisp with those Laser-Eyes before you get there.

Frick · Oct 10, 2017

RealNeil said:
Hopefully, the Cat doesn't burn it to a crisp with those Laser-Eyes before you get there.

It will eat the CPU and defecate it onto an expensive suede jacket. Cats are terrible.

Shambles1980 · Oct 10, 2017

if i was a cat, id defecate on a suede jacket too

RealNeil · Oct 10, 2017

Frick said:
Cats are terrible.

Mine isn't. We joke about having a cat with power steering because she's so easy to live with.
The only thing about her is that if you're in the house alone and you go to the bathroom, you have to close the door otherwise she'll sit in front of you and stare while you're doing your business. (nicknamed: Shitty Kitty)

Toothless · Oct 10, 2017

My cat is just fat.

When we gonna see that desktop fire up?

xkm1948 · Oct 10, 2017

Toothless said:
My cat is just fat.

When we gonna see that desktop fire up?

Still at work with at least 3hrs left.

RealNeil said:
Mine isn't. We joke about having a cat with power steering because she's so easy to live with.
The only thing about her is that if you're in the house alone and you go to the bathroom, you have to close the door otherwise she'll sit in front of you and stare while you're doing your business. (nicknamed: Shitty Kitty)

Yeah almost all cats do that.

My cat seems to like my armpits. It would sniff and lick my armpit in the morning to wake me up. Talking about weird cat.

xkm1948 · Oct 11, 2017

And the motherboard seems to be good. Boot up in one go. This means the original 6950X was indeed fried.

Huge thanks to @cadaveca for lending me a CPU!!!

Aquinus · Oct 11, 2017

xkm1948 said:
If i am 10 yrs younger and into online debating i would totally try to get my colleague to shut down the rack and snap a picture.

It had two sockets. One of which was populated with a bolted down heatsink. Another was empty 2011-v3 socket. We put that dead 6950x in and put my d15 on top. No power on. Removed the 6950x and power on just fine. That alone is telling something in the CPU has shorted out and the motherboard goes into protection mode without powering on. That was the closest thing to a X99 i can find at this tiny town.

It's not going to power on because multi-CPU Xeons have extra QPI links to connect to the additional CPU. You need at least a E5-2xxx CPU for that, not even a E5-1xxx CPU could possibly boot in that config.

xkm1948 said:
And the motherboard seems to be good. Boot up in one go. This means the original 6950X was indeed fried.

Huge thanks to @cadaveca for lending me a CPU!!!

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Definitely fried if it won't boot the 6950x.

xkm1948 · Oct 11, 2017

Happy to report this system is now running fine. No overclock of course. Not even XMP.

As for Windows 10, I put in my old Windows 7 CDKEY and it activated my system just fine.

Did some quick testing on this replacement TUF X99. It seems auto voltage really cannot be trusted. Bone stock 128gb ram at 2133, vccsa was 0.98V. Checked out Realbench stress test fine. Manually input ram to 3000, vccsa auto wanted to set itself to 1.36V! Hell freaking no. The moment i saw that in bios i yanked the power cable from wall as fast as I can.

After some tweeking i can get 128gb ram realbench stable with vccsa only at 1.1V and vccio at 1.05V. Cache sits at default speed with 1.02VThe key is do not overclock uncore. Final realbench stress test temp is 65C after 2 hours of stess testing. This is 5930K OC 4.2G core.

Honestly i would probably never touch cache OC ever again.

For now the system seems to work just fine. Thanks everyone for the help! Especially thanks to @Norton and @cadaveca

TPU has an awesome community

RealNeil · Oct 11, 2017

I'm glad that it's working now.

xkm1948 · Oct 12, 2017

Good to be back in business, for now.

RealNeil · Oct 12, 2017

xkm1948 said:
Good to be back in business, for now.

That's a good looking build.

I like Noctua Fans.
Six 140mm and one 120mm here.

xkm1948 · Oct 12, 2017

RealNeil said:
That's a good looking build.

I like Noctua Fans.
Six 140mm and one 120mm here.

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Looks like a Fractal Design case as well? What Noctua fans do you use? I am kinda debating whether I wanna go the Noctua grey PWM fans for better air flowing.

RealNeil · Oct 12, 2017

NZXT Source 530 case.
NFA-14-PWM and NFA-12-PWM fans inside.
I won all of the fans in a contest. It was pretty cool.

Sasqui · Oct 12, 2017

So, all along this indeed was a faulty 6950X ES ? You got an ASUS MB replacement thinking it was that... but it still didn't work, then some awesome TPU peeps sent you a CPU and now all is good? Does that about sum it up? Not trying to be flip or anything, just trying to wrap my head around the whole troubleshooting chain.

Nice looking system, do you still hate ASUS?

xkm1948 · Oct 12, 2017

RealNeil said:
NZXT 540 case.
NFA-14-PWM and NFA-12-PWM fans inside.
I won all of the fans in a contest. It was pretty cool.

Welp I guess I am probably not gonna just buy some then!

Sasqui said:
So, all along this indeed was a faulty 6950X ES ? You got an ASUS MB replacement thinking it was that... but it still didn't work, then some awesome TPU peeps sent you a CPU and now all is good? Does that about sum it up? Not trying to be flip or anything, just trying to wrap my head around the whole troubleshooting chain.

Nice looking system, do you still hate ASUS?

No, original board was fried while dragging the 6950X with it. It was the motherboard that killed the CPU. ASUS service center repair slip showed that board was dead as it would not boot on their test CPU as well. ASUS engineer from ROG forum also responded that the board was dead.

TONS of threads at overclock.net and ASUS ROG forum showing the exact symptom. Be it faulty design of VRM or faulty design of OC socket. The ASUS boards are KNOWN to have fried a large portion of Broadwell-E processors. As of now ASUS is still trying to address issue via BIOS updates.

Yes I still hate ASUS. Shitty customer service.

Sasqui · Oct 12, 2017

xkm1948 said:
TONS of threads at overclock.net and ASUS ROG forum showing the exact symptom. Be it faulty design of VRM or faulty design of OC socket. The ASUS boards are KNOWN to have fried a large portion of Broadwell-E processors. As of now ASUS is still trying to address issue via BIOS updates.

Just wow.

RealNeil · Oct 12, 2017

xkm1948 said:
Welp I guess I am probably not gonna just buy some then!

They're worth the money IMHO.
Another good fan is the Cougar Vortex PWM fan. I use those too.

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And the CPU socket is toasted

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