Overclocking trouble ...

[*****yass]

So I was supposed to overclock this PC. I've never tried it before and broke the CPU. I replaced it with a new one, but the customers budget was $25, and now his bill is $204 of course resulting in a bad review.
Is there really not a way that I can cover this cost, since it's my mistake? Am I missing something?

[BonPadre]

You said it yourself. It was a mistake, and nope you can't "give" parts to customers, so you got a bad review for it. The only way you avoid that, is simply by reloading your previous save (which I suppose should be when you ended your previous day) so not much of lost playtime.

Hit ESC and reload (without OVERWRITING your existing save, so basically leave without saving).

If you LEFT career mode already, without going through main menu... then it automaticly overwrote your auto save. Also a reason to make manual saves at some points.
I do that on many different saving point, before I give back my batch of PC's to customers. That way I can revert back if I forgot something.

Now in the BIOS it say something like "Don't go ver 1.5V, if you go over that, you may break damage the part" or something like that.

Any reason you went higher than 1.5 Volts ? You cannot break CPU by overheating them (OC them too much on the speed / MHz)
The only way to fry a CPU is by over Voltage.

So unless you have a reason to go over 1.5 volts (you will learn that later) simply follow what the BIOS suggest.
1.5 Volts for CPU and 1.65 Volts for RAM

[*****yass]

Thanks. Yeah I read a tutorial wrong, and fried it. I really was'nt thinking ..;-)
But it's too bad that you can't pay out of your pocket - you'd do that irl .. And I'm happy to, instead of a two star review ...

[Harag]

Originally posted by Oliefyr82:

Thanks. Yeah I read a tutorial wrong, and fried it. I really was'nt thinking ..;-)
But it's too bad that you can't pay out of your pocket - you'd do that irl .. And I'm happy to, instead of a two star review ...

It would be nice if we could give them some free parts or upgraded say a HDD for free because I didn't have a 1TB in stock so I put in a 2TB for the same price. etc. Especially on the story ones for returning customers.

Glad to hear that only the voltage kills the CPU - I'm just getting to that part of the game too so learning, Luckily I read the text and not gone over 1.5v however I get loads of blue screens when tweaking with the ratio etc until I find the sweet spot.

Chalk the bad review up to learning experience and make the next 25 reviews count!

[BonPadre]

Originally posted by Harag:

Chalk the bad review up to learning experience and make the next 25 reviews count!

Yep that too

Originally posted by Harag:

Glad to hear that only the voltage kills the CPU - I'm just getting to that part of the game too so learning, Luckily I read the text and not gone over 1.5v however I get loads of blue screens when tweaking with the ratio etc until I find the sweet spot.

Now little trick... when you OC your CPU, if in BIOS the CPU temp is 50°C (or just a tad over that) you can safely expect it to be a successfull OC, but nearing the throttling point.

If you are already up to (or over) 60°C, you may go check in OCCT, but chances are way higher it may BSOD instead of throttling.

That may help you find the sweet spot with less BSOD and less complete restart.

Finally I had some OC where I needed more than 1.5 Volts... actually you can go at least 1.65 Volts without frying them (maybe even 1.7V but I'll let maybe more experianced OC guys confirm that)
On one higher OC, I had a [ Clock Interrupt Error ] BSOD due to not enough voltage for that OC. That's when I went over 1.5V

Hope it helps you refine your OC and get lesser and lesser BSOD.

[*****yass]

:-)

[Harag]

Originally posted by Harag:

Now little trick... when you OC your CPU, if in BIOS the CPU temp is 50°C (or just a tad over that) you can safely expect it to be a successfull OC, but nearing the throttling point.

If you are already up to (or over) 60°C, you may go check in OCCT, but chances are way higher it may BSOD instead of throttling.

That may help you find the sweet spot with less BSOD and less complete restart.

Ahh Excellent tip, thanks. I noticed that it went up quite quickly to 100'c and BSOD, then I would drop it and again same. but that was at around 70'c. I'll keep in mind the 50. Of course I guess extra case fans etc will help.