4790k bending corners

[ze_ebobg]

Hi, my cousin has a problem: he built his own pc a year ago,  we play games very often, without problems in this year. I taught him everything I can, but I’ve never see something like that .... I googled it, and found some cases in Skylake  sockets (my rig is AMD).

 

All of the sudden (without having touched or dismounted anything in a year) the pc started to shutdown. I thought it was a temperature issue, but the temperature was ok (24C the cpu, mother below 30C) all fans were running ok, but the pc could not stay turned on even in the bios! 

 

He has a Mark1 asus, 4790k, with corsair memories. I left only motherboard, micro and memories without hdd, gpu, etc...... only mother, micro and memos and sometimes turns on 2 minutes (we could check the tempetures in the bios, also reset the bios, we touched the mother and micro and nothing got warm), and the pc went off again.

I´ve also checked it with my power supply (gold plus 1000watts),  with the same result.

 

Since I cannot check his micro in my mother ( I have an am3+) I’ve  run out of ideas (I think it is a mother or micro failure, but with different brands I cannot check it).

 

Because Mark 1 has 5 years of warranty I recommended him to send his mother to the store where bought the Mark 1; in  the store they told that the motherboard was ok (is not official asus support, we are  from Argentina, is just a store with a very good reputation).

 

On the other hand, my cousin was able to test all his other parts in a Mark2 with success (he can access to windows, and even test games without any shutdown or reboot -45 min test-)

 

And at this point, I’m very confused, because the store told him that the mother was ok, and the other parts of the pc , apparently, are working ok too in a brand new mark 2 (borrowed).

He sent all his parts, to the technical service in the store, and they sent us the pictures attached in this post.

The cooler is a Thermaltake Frio Extreme.... and i don’t explain why the PCB is so bended,  is this because he applied too much force placing the cooler? I don’t have any other explanation. 

 

 

And then, if the micro was THAT bended, how can even function in the mark 2?

 

 

[Kenji the Uke]

Jesus, whut

[xephoneration]

looks like someone took a drill to tighten the cooler. yeah looks like it was over tighten and then some.

[samcool55]

I know skylake uses a thinner PCB and are known to bend but a 4790k should be fine.

 

Anyway, when you are mounting a cooler you shouldn't use force.

No idea if that was the case here but when you mount a cooler, something like an electric screwdriver shouldn't be used.

If they did use that, that's probably the reason this happened.

 

It's at least very likely that the cause of this is a cooler mounted with too much force.

[imreloadin]

Tell your "cousin" that power tools don't belong anywhere near a PC. That CPU is toast, I can't even fathom why you would tighten a cooler down that much...

[ze_ebobg]

4 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

I know skylake uses a thinner PCB and are known to bend but a 4790k should be fine.

 

Anyway, when you are mounting a cooler you shouldn't use force.

No idea if that was the case here but when you mount a cooler, something like an electric screwdriver shouldn't be used.

If they did use that, that's probably the reason this happened.

 

It's at least very likely that the cause of this is a cooler mounted with too much force.

I told him that be gentle with the parts, and no, he used a simple screwdriver

[Kenji the Uke]

That thing is more bent out of shape than a league player. ;w; It could make a neat key chain now tho.

[ze_ebobg]

1 minute ago, Kenji the Uke said:

That thing is more bent out of shape than a league player. ;w; It could make a neat key chain now tho.

When i see the photos i cannot beleive that this actually works in the mark 2 , but it did...

 

My recommendation to him was to sell the memories and buy a 6700k + other motherboard. What do you think?? i will never put other micro in the mother o buy another 4th gen if i dont for sure that the Mark 1 is working well...

[Kenji the Uke]

Just now, ze_ebobg said:

When i see the photos i cannot beleive that this actually works in the mark 2 , but it did...

 

My recommendation to him was to sell the memories and buy a 6700k + other motherboard. What do you think?? i will never put other micro in the mother o buy another 4th gen if i dont for sure that the Mark 1 is working well...

Yeah, thats what I'd to too.. DDR4 Memory has gone down in price considerably 3: I mean that chip is gonna kill something at some point and might as well sell what he can now.. 

[PRTI]

15 minutes ago, ze_ebobg said:

I told him that be gentle with the parts, and no, he used a simple screwdriver

Maybe he lied.

[Litargirio]

Well, a 6700K + new MoBo + new RAM would be kind of expensive compared to just a newer second hand 4790K, and would only deliver marginally better performance... nothing noticeable really.

 

If it was me, I'd try to get a new 4790K, because of the cost and lack of increase in performance of upgrading.

[scottyseng]

hmm, was the PC handled roughly in anyway? I can think a solid drop to the floor would cause a large heatsink to damage like that...but yeah, I'm amazed it even operated.

 

That or he really went all out tightening it with a simple screwdriver...you can get it down pretty hard if he pushed it hard enough.

 

Well, if he has all of the part for a 4790K, I probably would say to get another 4790K, used even. It is quite expensive to make the jump to a 6700K, even with the money made from selling his old parts.

[Carclis]

I guess it wasn't ogre - proof. Seriously though, how do you even do that?

[Soundsystem90]

My Xeon has a chipped corner, it has no issues however.

[Curious Pineapple]

Maybe this can be an advertising idea for AMD.

 

AMD proudly supporting orangutans with screwdrivers, cause no bugger can bend a PGA package!