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To bury this thread, I've found the solution. I'll condense it to a simple explanation, now. The root of the issue was a bad solder ball on a MOSFET. These circuits are related to the power delivery on the motherboard. When the board sent an on signal to the PSU, the circuit failed, shooting sparks and smoke from the top of the board. The CPU was destroyed, sadly. 6800K down the drain. Store won't help out. Some circuits pertaining to power delivery were moved to the CPU on the last few generations of Intel chips. when the other circuit mentioned above failed, more power than the chip was designed to handle was sent to it. The PSU in this system did not have over-current protection. This kills the CPU. -Jake

Yes, absolutely.

Took off the heatsink, found a horror show.

The rest of the mobo looks fine, I'd have to remove the VRM heatsink to find more possible marks. It's a Rosewill 1000w.

Before post, the motherboard's (Asus X99-AII) has breathing lights all over it, looks good so far, but when I press the power button the post code display says "00" for a brief moment and the the motherboard starts shooting FUCKING SPARKS AND SMOKE from the VRM heatsink. At this point I know my mobo and CPU are toast. I'd really like to know what caused it. There were no bridged contacts behind the mobo, all the power was hooked up correctly, thermal past and cooler was installed correctly, RAM was in right, PSU was on a power conditioner, you can basically assume that this build was done the same way the "how to" videos show on this channel. But yet I got catastrophic failure. Has this happened to anyone else? What components were fried if so? Is the PSU implicated or not safe for other motherboards? Any reply is appreciated, thanks. -Jake

Hey guys, Can an RM650 push enough wattage to two E5-2620 v3s and a 960? Can it connect two 8 pin power connectors? Can't find this info anywhere. Thanks, -Jake

Check out "Voicemeeter banana". You may not be able to manipulate spspecific programs like you ask, but you can route multiple sources to multiple outputs.

It looks like a 2020 but it doesn't sound like one. I'm willing to bet its an at2035. Sorry don't mean to be that guy.

A Steinburg UR 22 Is the best you'll get for the money. A Scarlett will kill your condenser or headphones (as it has to me) and an audiobox is more expensive. This box is at the threshold of diminishing returns for what you are doing. Do NOT go behrenger if you can ever help it. if you only need a preamp and A/d the "blue icicle" is great, check that out.

What is your budget? What are you using it for?

That depends on the type of bad sector. If it's a physical bad sector, there is no way a cloning software would copy that over. Do you know which one it was? Also I would recommend clonezilla or something else you boot to live to clone. I wouldn't recommend booting to the OS that you are copying over.

SOL it seems.

Nobody's got it in their google drive or anything?

Hey guys, I need to download an El Capitan installer .dmg file to make a virtual machine and installer disk. I don't have access to a Mac so I can't get it from the app store. Also the computer I'm using at the moment isn't mine so I'd rather not install a torrent program. Thanks! -Jake

Mid settings... probably not very many. You might have to turn down pretty far