^ when was the last time you heard a core i5 ivy bridge running on the best UPS, Air Conditioned room, best paste and Zalman Cooler, cooler master storm scout 2 Case, Cooler master silent pro PSU, and only runs about 3 hours a day, built by an Engineer with 14 years of PC building under the belt. JUST DIE in only 2 years of functioning PERFECTLY and NEVER once overclocked even though it was K edition? and having checked every possible thing still refuses to start?
For christ sakes the CPU did not die while it was on, it died when it was off, no electricity. PC never came back on the following day.
So yes even the best at times needs a little advice for ideas of what might be causing an issue, even the best might have to come on Anandtech forums and ask for some guidance. Maybe there is something said person have not tried? what in gods name could have caused this to happen? how is it even possible?
Even intel sounds a little surprised after hearing the story. Even they seem a little bit shocked.
PS his 14 years of fixing PC he has NEVER come across a dead CPU aswell just so you know.
Sometimes in life when you have few friends who know about computers being me and his family being conservative muslims and only know about religion, hence knowing little about computers. Sometimes you just happen to call and ask that friend just for the heck of it? might shock some people but this is just being human.
There was a good advice given here in that suggesting to plug the PC in another socket, it didn't work but was worth a shot, folks at anandtech have always been a great help. Sometimes talking to someone and asking questions make you feel a little less sad about your expensive dead CPU