SpacePumpkin

In a shocking turn of events, as I was packing it away I reinserted the CPU and heard a crunch, it felt more stable in the socket than before. So I attempted power on again and it came to life, so I deconstructed the spare I was using this weekend, put its original parts back in and installed that the new cooler. It POSTs and has been online for the last 30 mins. Time will tell I suppose, I remember reading someone's story where the chip was only able to do like 5% of its original workload, I ran a passmark benchmark and got around 29k for the CPU alone (about 10% under the average). 
 
I'm gonna go make the most of the last of my stressful bank holiday weekend. It's been a rollercoaster. Thanks for the advice! I'm very paranoid when it comes to these things, would always rather cut my losses than risk breaking more stuff (although by the sounds of it, this was never a risk).
 
In terms of the thermal paste used, I'm guessing it was either the stuff that came with the stock cooler or Noctua NT-H2. I would agree with replies on this thread that its probably a mix of attempting the swap cold (lesson learnt there) and that its been near enough 100% usage 24/7 for the past 3 years. It had been edging 90C in recent weeks and sometimes the fan needed help to spin and would prompt thermal shutoffs (hence the need to replace the cooler)

I really loved how they found a gap in the so called "market" of YouTube and ran it pretty well.
 
I hope if Netlinked doesn't return, Linus might hire some new staff and setup a project for tech news. Although, he might see it as unnecessary, I just don't like filtering through articles.

Yes, the amps will be different when changing voltage. So if your at 5 v and 27 amps that is 135w because p=IV. So if you want to find the draw from the plug socket, it would be I=P/V. So at 240 v it would be 1.8 amps.

It'll trip the overcurrent protection if it tries to run on backup power and cut off.

Thanks for the replies, complicated stuff, I think I'll go with the ASUS one since the MSI one hasnt had a BIOS update since mid april, and is still stuck on agesa 1.0.0.4a (and if thats a sign of things to come...)

Read the thread in my signature

right now, very important. due to the AGESA updates, the mobo mannies are trying to update the UEFI for p-n-p RAM, but so far all are a bit behind.
 
timings or the RAM are the key elements to functionality. composition of flash memory (ICs) seems to be primary, speed, then timings. even the tertiary can make a no-go impact.
so either review and make purchases from the manufacturers QVL list or wait til the issues are ironed out (could be months).

I disabled it and havent had any problems (disabled yesterday). In fact, I disabled everything in that folder (like you)

I wonder how many people are gonna say they are switching to Linux after reading this?