At the end of the day, I just couldn't accept the fact that this thing couldn't do math without having LLC cranked to "Medium". ("Low" only bought me a bit of stability, I had to go to "Medium" to get real stability.)
There is just no reason that at stock settings, any CPU should fail to run any software.
So my chip got RMA'd back to the vendor. It will not probably be two to three weeks before I have a chip back.
It sucks, but at the end of the day I know it's the right thing to do. Hopefully I draw a better sample the next time through.
delray_kevin got a reaction from svmlegacy in Stressing a 3950x (and stressing me.)
