CPU is cooked ? Please help.

[JohnLovesYou]

While applying thermal paste to my CPU I noticed something weird . A place in the motherboard (were the cpu is placed) seemed like it had melted. And now my pc does not open . Am I cooked ? Do I need a new motherboard or cpu or both ? 

[Hinjima]

9 minutes ago, JohnLovesYou said:

While applying thermal paste to my CPU I noticed something weird . A place in the motherboard (were the cpu is placed) seemed like it had melted. And now my pc does not open . Am I cooked ? Do I need a new motherboard or cpu or both ? 

 

 

The socket doesn't look good at all.

Can you take more pictures from different angles please.

[JohnLovesYou]

5 minutes ago, Hinjima said:

The socket doesn't look good at all.

Can you take more pictures from different angles please.

Sadly at this moment I can’t but if you see the red   circle  at the cpu photo that looks like it’s a burn mark . That burn mark and that spot on the socket that looks melted are at the same location. They fit on top of one another.

[Bitter]

Can you post photos of all 4 edges of the socket and CPU?

[PDifolco]

Sure the pins by the bottom look broken/melted, dead

What are the parts ?

[JohnLovesYou]

More pictures 

[JohnLovesYou]

17 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

Sure the pins by the bottom look broken/melted, dead

What are the parts ?

PSU/ Be Quiet Straight Power 11 750W  Full Modular 80

 

CPU/ Intel Core i5-13600K 2.6GHz Socket 1700

 

Motherboard/ Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX rev. 1.0 Wi-Fi Motherboard ATX 

GPU/ MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB GDDR6X Gaming X trio 

 

Ram/ Kingston Fury Beast RGB 32GB DDR5 RAM με 2 Modules (2x16GB) 

[JohnLovesYou]

UPDATE . 
There is a small piece of metal melted on the cpu side ware I have the red circle in the first photo . 
So I need to get a new cpu and motherboard.

[Bitter]

My initial thought was that the CPU was socketed incorrectly but I don't see any socket or CPU edge damage that would indicate that. if the pins were bent when the CPU was installed they could have touched one another and shorted or touched the wrong pads and shorted. It'll be hard to tell what caused the failure, I'm sorry this happened and I hope that RMA warranty can take care of it for you.

 

Make sure you clearly and well document everything about the CPU and board condition before sending it in and use shipping with tracking and insurance to prove they received it.

[JohnLovesYou]

1 minute ago, Bitter said:

My initial thought was that the CPU was socketed incorrectly but I don't see any socket or CPU edge damage that would indicate that. if the pins were bent when the CPU was installed they could have touched one another and shorted or touched the wrong pads and shorted. It'll be hard to tell what caused the failure, I'm sorry this happened and I hope that RMA warranty can take care of it for you.

I saw the damage when I unplugged the cpu to clean the previous thermal paste cause it was messy .

Can this cause damage to other parts of the motherboard? 

[PDifolco]

1 minute ago, JohnLovesYou said:

I saw the damage when I unplugged the cpu to clean the previous thermal paste cause it was messy .

Can this cause damage to other parts of the motherboard? 

Board is cooked, it can't get worse

[JohnLovesYou]

Just now, PDifolco said:

Board is cooked, it can't get worse

Will it do any damage to other parts that are connected to the motherboard?

[JohnLovesYou]

If I buy a new CPU and motherboard that are compatible with the rest of the parts will I have to install windows again ? 
Will there be a problem booting up the pc to get files and then reinstalling windows? 

[PDifolco]

21 minutes ago, JohnLovesYou said:

Will it do any damage to other parts that are connected to the motherboard?

Possible if the board sent crazy voltages everywhere, but probably not

14 minutes ago, JohnLovesYou said:

If I buy a new CPU and motherboard that are compatible with the rest of the parts will I have to install windows again ? 
Will there be a problem booting up the pc to get files and then reinstalling windows? 

Depends, if it's a CPU "close" to the previous one (say another 13th/14th Gen Intel) it's not needed, but if you go AMD you'd be better reinstalling Windows

[JohnLovesYou]

1 minute ago, PDifolco said:

Possible if the board sent crazy voltages everywhere, but probably not

Depends, if it's a CPU "close" to the previous one (say another 13th/14th Gen Intel) it's not needed, but if you go AMD you'd be better reinstalling Windows

Gonna buy the same CPU and a cheaper Motherboard

[JohnLovesYou]

15 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

Possible if the board sent crazy voltages everywhere, but probably not

Depends, if it's a CPU "close" to the previous one (say another 13th/14th Gen Intel) it's not needed, but if you go AMD you'd be better reinstalling Windows

Thinking of buying a Gigabyte Z790 UD AX rev. 1.0 Wi-Fi Motherboard ATX .

[Bitter]

Windows isn't very picky, I've swapped drives between Intel and AMD systems before and they worked fine, just had to roll through Windows collecting some drivers on first boot then getting the current drivers from the websites. Windows activation might care depending on what license you have.

[Alex Atkin UK]

15 hours ago, JohnLovesYou said:

I saw the damage when I unplugged the cpu to clean the previous thermal paste cause it was messy .

Can this cause damage to other parts of the motherboard? 

Honestly this still looks to me like the pins got damaged before inserting the CPU and that caused bad contact, thus the burn marked edge of the CPU pad, as the pin should have been located nearer the middle.  Its possible even the wrong pin touched the wrong pad but would need an actual microscope to see what's going on with the those pins.

 

The CPU doesn't look badly damaged, though I can understand not wanting to risk breaking a new motherboard so just replacing both.