6/ pin cpu connected

[joelg1]

Hi everybody, i have a question. I have been using my computer for almost a year now. I opened my computer to clean it, do some cable management about 6-7 months ago and one thing i never notice what performance issue, until 2-3 months ago and it became quite clear i had trouble about a week ago. Today, my computer hard close 3 time and i was convince mty power supply was at issue. I tried to swap the PSU and that is when i realise my cable wasnt install properly. I had only 6 pin connected on the 8 for the CPU. I was able to still hit 1500 in cinebench. before putting the cable back in place, i wasnt able to do it without a hard shut down.

So my question is, could the past few months ofrunning underpowered have damage my cpu?

I know this is an odd situation.

Thank you for the input!

My computer spec are follow:
Ryzen 1700x (now stock)
32 gig ddr 2666 corsair vengeance

Gygabite r9 380x

asus x370 a-prime

psu xfx xrt 750w gold

 

[Jurrunio]

9 minutes ago, joelg1 said:

Ryzen 1700x (now stock)

was overclocked?

[joelg1]

12 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

was overclocked?

yes, back a few months ago i was able to get the cpu to 3.7 on... apparently... 6 pin cpu instead of 8. but i know i was abl, when i first got it, to push to 4.1 ghz (or 4.085... stupide multiplier not getting perfect number).

 

But since yesterday, i have hard shutdown, randomly, on the computer. I had a xfx xrt750w gold to power this computer and,i think the strain put on the cpu and psu to deliver the electricity might have damage it since i tried to put it back to 8 pin but still wasnt able to achieve stability. playing civ 6 and the computer shut down after 20 minutes. i put a new psu inside and i was able to complete a run with a crash.

I am not as tech savy has i though i was to be honest.

[Jurrunio]

48 minutes ago, joelg1 said:

yes, back a few months ago i was able to get the cpu to 3.7 on... apparently... 6 pin cpu instead of 8. but i know i was abl, when i first got it, to push to 4.1 ghz (or 4.085... stupide multiplier not getting perfect number).

 

But since yesterday, i have hard shutdown, randomly, on the computer. I had a xfx xrt750w gold to power this computer and,i think the strain put on the cpu and psu to deliver the electricity might have damage it since i tried to put it back to 8 pin but still wasnt able to achieve stability. playing civ 6 and the computer shut down after 20 minutes. i put a new psu inside and i was able to complete a run with a crash.

I am not as tech savy has i though i was to be honest.

From electrical standpoint it shouldnt be a problem. The 3 wires carrying 12v current in the PCIe 6pin connector should power 1st gen Ryzen just fine. Even if it isnt fine, it problem will be the wires getting hot, not enough to hurt anything but the cable itself.

 

So it still crashes with the EPS 8pin (not PCIe 9pin) installed?

[daddrian]

I personally don't think your CPU is faulty because of underpower. It's not like you didn't had any pins plugged. Two pins aren't much. The problem might be elsewhere.

[joelg1]

5 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

From electrical standpoint it shouldnt be a problem. The 3 wires carrying 12v current in the PCIe 6pin connector should power 1st gen Ryzen just fine. Even if it isnt fine, it problem will be the wires getting hot, not enough to hurt anything but the cable itself.

 

So it still crashes with the EPS 8pin (not PCIe 9pin) installed?

Yeah, it's the CPU connector, written on it, that is plugged inside. and even with the 8 pin, it was stopping to work. I put a corsair cx500w and put everything has before and no problem anymore. i checked the event log on windows and this is was happears.

 

it says that computer stop it wasnt receiving electricity properly.