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Originally Posted by Splave (Post 93040)

only bad news is that the boards started eating the chips, when using the venom pot and freezing the memory as well the board gets too cold and the ChiL chip messes up...sends 5v to the CPU IMC voltage and that about does it. Then the CPU gains a IMC cold bug around -120c to -150c and just cant handle any amount of ln2 benching anymore but it still works fine on air. I lost 2 6.7ghz 32m chips and andre and shammy lost 2 6.7ghz and 2 6.6ghz chips. Also happend to hazzans 7ghz 1m/pfast chip that we ran on lhe for the world records lol! sucks so dont use the venom pot and or maybe hold off on freezing memory unless you plan to run 32m or aq3 and dont mind risking losing the chip for now until there is a fix.

That SUCKS

I made sure my last couple mobo reviews to put the specs for the controller on there. Only certain ones are good below 0 and then only to -40C IIRC. Might need to keep a fan on the controller to warm it up in the future?

Glad you had fun and rocked out with your cpu out :)

its the chips right right below the mem dimms, so when you are freezing memory and cpu it happens more readily then just the cpu or just the mem. Shammy said they have since fixed the issue on the extreme and formula, gene does not have the problem :)

OH not the CHil chip then? ASUS is funny like to obfuscate their controllers. Gigabyte you rip the spreaders off and can ID the VRMs or whatever not so with ASUS.

Not saying ASUS is bad just saying its what they do.

I will look more into what you said when I have a z77 infront of me and I am not drinking :)