Help with overclocking - FIRST TIME! (GPU and CPU!)

[Quinquangular]

Your cpu is most likely NOT dead.

 

Is your system installed in a case?

Yep. It's all taken apart besides my PSU and my watercooler still mounted in, might as well keep em in and save time for rebuilding.

[LapFox]

Wow man, that really sucks. You must've gotten a faulty board, and overclocking the CPU forced the faulty component into overdrive, forcing bad voltage into it.

 

That is an excellent motherboard, however not all are perfect all the time, errors can occur. However, I feel that you might want to look into your power supply, if the 12V rail becomes faulty, then the motherboard cannot regulate the CPU as effectively. If you get the replacement motherboard and CPU and the problem persists, it may be your PSU.

[Quinquangular]

I'll see what happens. Hopefully intel won't reject my dead CPU RMA.

I got an EVGA Supernova 1000W gold rated PSU. I hope everything will be fine.

[ProKoN]

set up your gear on a testbench(motherboard box) pull the psu and water cooler...yes.

 

start testing with one video card and one stick of ram.

[ProKoN]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKhCQmKAmEM

[Quinquangular]

Thanks guys.

But once I removed my CPU it revealed like 4 bent pins.. Even though I installed my CPU perfectly. The mobo came with like 2 damaged pins and I just moved them and it seemed alright.

I already am sending the CPU soon after I stop by the post office, and i'm going to contact my seller about the mobo so they can give me a replacement.. Or I'll file an A-Z claim on Amazon and get my money back since it came damaged.