It's complicated - Need help with deciding

[cheek_b52]

So, back story, 

 

Jan 2018 i built my first pc, specs are, 

 

8600k (Delidded and OC'd to 5.2ghz) 

Gigapoo Aorous Gaming 370

gtx1080

16gb Trident RGB 3000mhz (XMP on & OC'd to 3200mhz)

RM850x 

500gb 850 evo

2tb hdd

Cooling: ekwb liquid gaming full cover gpu block and cpu with 240 & 360 Rad

Corsair 570X case

 

 

Anyway it was puppies and kittens  until tuesday (rig sat unplugged for 3 days) when the pc wouldn't boot. At first it showed the DoS looking "insert bootable media" 

-Figured ok,  ssd is dead

So i unplugged both drives and just tried getting into bios, was able to once after multiple attempts and it locked up in bios. 

- So i cleared CMOS and basically everything went to hell and its now dead to the world.

 

I tried swapping ram around, no dice, stole ram from other pc, no dice. I put the 16gb kit in my other pc just fine. 

 

So afaik it's dead to the world. If anybody has thoughts to the issue, I'm out of them. 

Temps were always fine, cpu never over 155F, VRM never over 145F (via HWmonitor)

 

 

Currently limping along with my living room pc (i5-7500, EVGA1080, borrowed 16gb ram)

I'm at an impass as to what direction to go now, I am really interested in 3rd gen Ryzen but need something to float me until then. 

I was thinking Ryzen 2600x w/ Asrock Taichi X470 mobo and when 3rd gen comes out picking up just the cpu. 

Or full send on a 9900k but im salty towards intel right now as idk if the cpu or mobo failed. 

 

I don't stream or anything, but do play trendy games and do occasionally use it for CAM software for work stuff so thread count would help. But my OC'd 8600k @5.2 was adequate

 

 

Sorry for the ramble, maybe i should separate into different threads but i want to make a rash purchase so hopefully i can get some insight. 

 

[LukeLinusFanFic]

Usually it's a motherboard that's failing, but very rarely it could be the CPU. Do you have a different motherboard to try it in?  

[cheek_b52]

Not an 8th Gen board unfortunately

[HoneyBadger84]

Couple of things. Does it power on at all now or not at all? 

 

I'm not familiar enough with liquid metal to know, but I'd check in to how often it needs to be redone... Don't think it's this often though. 

 

You should be under warranty on that motherboard, I would contact Gigabyte if trouble shooting with us fails and get it RMAed. 

 

I would eliminate one part at a time as the problem if you want to take the time. Test the PSU in another computer, you already did the RAM, if that works, then you're pretty much certain it's the motherboard or the CPU. 

[cheek_b52]

59 minutes ago, HoneyBadger84 said:

Couple of things. Does it power on at all now or not at all? 

 

I'm not familiar enough with liquid metal to know, but I'd check in to how often it needs to be redone... Don't think it's this often though. 

 

You should be under warranty on that motherboard, I would contact Gigabyte if trouble shooting with us fails and get it RMAed. 

 

I would eliminate one part at a time as the problem if you want to take the time. Test the PSU in another computer, you already did the RAM, if that works, then you're pretty much certain it's the motherboard or the CPU. 

liquid metal is maybe month and a half old at most. It's thermal grizzly conductonaut. Gamers nexus did a 1 year study and it was still like day 1 minus some leaching into the heat spreader. 

 

It would a monster of a pain, but i do have a thermaltake 550w G+ in my other pc i could test with.

 

I think i am going to pick up the Ryzen setup tomorrow, and see if Gigabyte will RMA the board and just use that as an upgrade to my living room setup. 

 

I hate doing warranty stuff but i'll have to try 

[HoneyBadger84]

24 minutes ago, cheek_b52 said:

liquid metal is maybe month and a half old at most. It's thermal grizzly conductonaut. Gamers nexus did a 1 year study and it was still like day 1 minus some leaching into the heat spreader. 

 

It would a monster of a pain, but i do have a thermaltake 550w G+ in my other pc i could test with.

 

I think i am going to pick up the Ryzen setup tomorrow, and see if Gigabyte will RMA the board and just use that as an upgrade to my living room setup. 

 

I hate doing warranty stuff but i'll have to try 

All you need to do with the PSU from the "dead" system, is plug in the CPU, 24-pin & enough to boot the computer (a drive, video card if necessary, just to make sure the PSU from that system is fine.  Basically eliminating it as a possible problem for sure, so that you know it's the board and/or the CPU.

[cheek_b52]

9 hours ago, HoneyBadger84 said:

All you need to do with the PSU from the "dead" system, is plug in the CPU, 24-pin & enough to boot the computer (a drive, video card if necessary, just to make sure the PSU from that system is fine.  Basically eliminating it as a possible problem for sure, so that you know it's the board and/or the CPU.

Yeah I know, Its just a pain to undo the cable management on the backside of the case