Well thats sucky on the first chip. Looks like the board could be the culprit. Hope your better chip doesn't get fraked up too. When I pulled my chip out a few days ago there were no signs of burns and I've wPrimed it at 1.7v a hand full of times. I use LCC LV1 only though.

Sheeeet!!

My 1st cpu that i did 1.8v with :P had slight burn marks. same with my 2nd cpu, they al burn on the same spot for me (middle top right'ish) when looking at kal-el's photos.

What is causing this? high volts and too little contact between pins?

kal's burns are bad tho! 3rd degree!

I'd try this:

Max Voltages used:
vcore 1.67
vdimm 1.72
vtt 1.22
level 2 LLC

Fully load the CPU and check voltage at vcore readout point. Should be around the same place on your board me thinks.

Then try Level 1 LLC and see what you get.

Then try a better bios :D

Thx OCM, too late, covered in nail polish, foam and eraser atm. If it crashes and burns, I'll know I've given too much vcore. :D

Wingin' it like a true Superhero :good:

iirc, raja said something about intel lowering the number of pins dedicated to vtt being one possible culprit. It looks like the pads have good contact marks on the cpu. Shit just keeps getting flakier and flakier with intel.

No burn marks on my chips, but I never got past 52X

Don't even want to look at mine.... pushing 1.8 for 5.6 ... total fail :ohcrap:

Chip #2 bugs out at -105c in the os @ x56.
changing mulit-s past -65 thru -105c will not set any multi, no matter, but will run if pre-set at -50ish
Cascade is too cold basically is what I'm saying :P

No burns here on any chips, even latest at 1.75v. Maybe a gigabutt thing? What kinda vtt you using kal, dont tell me 1.5v