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Heres the deal.... my baby IB requires excessive Vcore to OC (1.544V for a stable 5G) but has an unexplained high vcore for stock to remain stable 1.230v. My Mobo has given me in 5 days of having the CPU, twelve "CPU Initialization" errors and the pc keeps re-posting until windows loads. Nothing happens when using a friends 2500K either so it has to be the cpu.
I've contacted the seller on Amazon but they don't seem american and are utterly bent on putting the blame on ASROCK (Mobo) saying its worst mobo company for Z77, its not cpu, intel has always been great, etc. Basically? They wont take it back for a refund because they don't have any other 3770k in stock to replace it with and I dont know how amazon deals with these kinds of sellers, anyways!
Im trying to find the best route here for a CPU replacement...and if I would need to buy Intels $25 replacement plan to get it to work, plus how intel themselves work out swaps. I've only ever had to replace a pair of headphones in the past three years and AKG was just like "we will send you a new one, toss the old pair out" which was surprising but I know intel wont do this.
Do they cross-ship or is it an extensive RMA proccess...Im trying to minimize downtime...kind of freaking out here. Lost the silicon lottery bigtime here... this baby would do wonders under water probably but I just dont have that kind of setup.
Heres the deal.... my baby IB requires excessive Vcore to OC (1.544V for a stable 5G) but has an unexplained high vcore for stock to remain stable 1.230v. My Mobo has given me in 5 days of having the CPU, twelve "CPU Initialization" errors and the pc keeps re-posting until windows loads. Nothing happens when using a friends 2500K either so it has to be the cpu.
I've contacted the seller on Amazon but they don't seem american and are utterly bent on putting the blame on ASROCK (Mobo) saying its worst mobo company for Z77, its not cpu, intel has always been great, etc. Basically? They wont take it back for a refund because they don't have any other 3770k in stock to replace it with and I dont know how amazon deals with these kinds of sellers, anyways!
Im trying to find the best route here for a CPU replacement...and if I would need to buy Intels $25 replacement plan to get it to work, plus how intel themselves work out swaps. I've only ever had to replace a pair of headphones in the past three years and AKG was just like "we will send you a new one, toss the old pair out" which was surprising but I know intel wont do this.
Do they cross-ship or is it an extensive RMA proccess...Im trying to minimize downtime...kind of freaking out here. Lost the silicon lottery bigtime here... this baby would do wonders under water probably but I just dont have that kind of setup.