Is my CPU defective?

[Gothfather]

I just built my own system and i believe my i7 6800k is defective as it only runs at 3.1 GHz well less than the listed 3.4 GHz for the chip. intel's processor diagnostic tool fails my CPU, Intel's Extreme Tuning Utility shows the max clock speed to be 3.11 GHz when I stress test the system or run a benchmark. The Benchmark for the CPU is 1294. CPUid also shows the CPU clock at 3.105 GHz. (See pics)

 

System specs

windows 10 64-bit

Bios:  0601

I7-6800k 3.4 Ghz

32 gigs (4x8gigs) of Ram they are rated at 3000 Mhz but I have not yet over clocked my system so they are only running at 2333 Mhz

Asus X99 - A ii motherboard

EVGA  geforce GTX 1080 FTW clocked at 1721 (Again no overclocking on my end yet)

1 TB SSD samsung 850 evo

3 TB HHD

BenQ GW2765 monitor running at 1440p

heatsink:  Bequiet! Dark rock Pro 3 rated at 250w (both fans are PWN

Powersupply: Dark Pro 11 650W 80plus Platinum

cooling: 2x 120mm silent wing 2 fans (2 intake) pwm

5x 140mm silent wing 2 fans (2 intake, 3 exhaust) Pwn

The fans are hooked into the motherboard I am using a PWM hub for most of the case fans.

 

I just build my system last week and was burning it in via normal use and I was monitoring heat. The plan was to start stressing the system to see how much leeway i have at overclocking the system when I discovered the issue with the CPU. I just used the bios and some simpler tools to see usage and heat of the components. I am 95% sure I did nothing wrong with my build and I just got a bad CPU but it has been over 15 years since I last built my own system back in the days of dip switches and so on. So this was a lot easier but things have changes so maybe I missed a step. To be clear no overclocking has been done yet but the system was designed to be overclocked. It was the process of stressing the system at stock clock speed that alerted me to the problem.

 

Not that it is important to the issue but this isn't just a gaming rig It was designed for both gaming and video editing which is why I went with a slower clock speed but more cores for my CPU and why I went with 4 channels vs. 3 channels for the memory.

[belfouf]

Hi,

 

your BIOS is not up to date -at all-

https://www.asus.com/fr/Motherboards/X99-A-II/HelpDesk_Download/

 

please try to update it first to 1201

[Gothfather]

6 hours ago, belfouf said:

Hi,

 

your BIOS is not up to date -at all-

https://www.asus.com/fr/Motherboards/X99-A-II/HelpDesk_Download/

 

please try to update it first to 1201

Well this is embarrassing. I downloaded the bios on Friday the 7th which you can clearly see in my Asus utility folder yet it appears I forgot to actually update the bios. I honestly have no idea how I failed to do that as it was literally the first file I downloaded after installing the OS.

 

Surprise Surprise updating the Bios solved the problem. I still can't believed I forgot to update after downloading the bloody file. All tests are passing.

 

Thank you. ~shuffles off embarrassed~

[belfouf]

21 hours ago, Gothfather said:

Well this is embarrassing. I downloaded the bios on Friday the 7th which you can clearly see in my Asus utility folder yet it appears I forgot to actually update the bios. I honestly have no idea how I failed to do that as it was literally the first file I downloaded after installing the OS.

 

Surprise Surprise updating the Bios solved the problem. I still can't believed I forgot to update after downloading the bloody file. All tests are passing.

 

Thank you. ~shuffles off embarrassed~

glad it helped