[Strix x99 Gaming] QCODE 00 over night after several small issues

[mulderfox]

I'm convinced that everyone who had a system power off and cpu suddenly was dead were mixing utilities that hit the Asus EC in a dangerous way (Corsair Link/icue, and those that failed across shutdowns had never bothered to change the Bootup vcore from Auto.

Even on ivy bridge, failing to do the latter could see vcore hit 1.6v+ at auto once starting to overclock.

Actually, no, I wasn't mixing any utilities like you mentioned. The issue, also according to Asus, was a design flow that may cause a short in the motherboard itself. As somewhat of a proof, the CPU was not affected. The thing is, it shouldn't happen - especially in a flagship series such as strix gaming which is supposed to be built for OC.