6700k Just Died!!! Motherboard Damaged

[SALEEN961]

So I walked away from my computer for a few minutes and when I came back the screen was flickering and the whole system was completely unresponsive, I tried to reboot and the system failed to POST and there was no video output. I removed every PCIe device and every USB device and it still failed to POST, at this point I notice that I also have a dead fan header. I removed all but one stick of RAM and tried different sticks in different slots, no POST. I unplugged my SSD and every cable from the PSU that didn't go to the motherboard, no POST and still no video output. I swapped CPUs and now I have video output, and I can enter the BIOS, but I still have a dead fan header. The system I swapped my 6700K into won't POST, I swapped the CPUs again and sure enough the no POST, no video output, follows my 6700K.

 

So I have a dead 6700K and a damaged motherboard, I can probably RMA the motherboard but the CPU has no warranty. What concerns me the most is not knowing where the failure originated, why do I have a dead fan header now? Should I trust my power supply after this event, what happened here, this system has been stable for over a year and wasn't aggressively overclocked.

 

Should I try to RMA the board and buy another 6700K/7700K?

 

Should I buy a new Z170/Z270 motherboard and 6700K/7700K?

 

Or should I just buy a whole new Z370 motherboard, power supply, and 8th gen CPU?

 

What do you guys think, I'd really like to hear some opinions.

[Flameytail]

i would go 8600k with a new mobo

[just tilt]

Just now, Flameytail said:

i would go 8600k with a new mobo

He has an EVGA GTX 1080Ti SC2

[JoostinOnline]

Because both your CPU and motherboard were affected, I'm guessing this goes back to your PSU.

[Flameytail]

Just now, just tilt said:

He has an EVGA GTX 1080Ti SC2

i7 8600k 

[warlinty]

Just now, just tilt said:

He has an EVGA GTX 1080Ti SC2

yeah and? it's not gonna bottleneck it

[just tilt]

4 minutes ago, warlinty said:

yeah and? it's not gonna bottleneck it

I did't realize that i5 8600k is better than a i7 7700k, in that case there will be no bottlenecks.

[Flameytail]

 

3 minutes ago, Flameytail said:

i7 8600k 

wait i'm an idiot

 

@SALEEN961 Do you do any OC'ing

[warlinty]

1 minute ago, just tilt said:

I did't realize that i5 8600k is better than a i7 7700k, in that case there will be no bottlenecks.

I'm just stating the obvious nothing else

and no I don't mean an 8600K is better than a 7700K obviously, my post was completetly unrelated to the actual post

[Flameytail]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/WCRJJV 

 

eh?

 

 

or https://pcpartpicker.com/list/JXcYvV

[just tilt]

1 minute ago, Flameytail said:

 

wait i'm an idiot

 

@SALEEN961 Do you do any OC'ing

lol i was like wat when you said i7

Just now, warlinty said:

I'm just stating the obvious nothing else

Yeah, I didn't know it was that good until I checked

[SALEEN961]

Just now, Flameytail said:

 

wait i'm an idiot

 

@SALEEN961 Do you do any OC'ing

Yep I typically overclock my systems.

[Flameytail]

20 hours ago, SALEEN961 said:

Yep I typically overclock my systems.

i would go for a i5-8600k and a z370 mobo.

 

i would suggest this: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/LLzjPs

[SALEEN961]

11 minutes ago, JoostinOnline said:

Because both your CPU and motherboard were affected, I'm guessing this goes back to your PSU.

I just don't know if I can trust it now, with all the other expensive hardware attached to it it seems like it's not worth it to try and reuse it, but at the same time it seems like such a waste to just throw out a $130 PSU, but I couldn't sell it in good conscience.

 

How do you guys feel about Corsair PSUs or Gigabyte motherboards? Intel CPU failures seem to be very rare so I'm inclined to believe that something killed it. I'm wondering if I should change brands or if I really just had some bad luck.

[GalacticRuler]

1 minute ago, SALEEN961 said:

I just don't know if I can trust it now, with all the other expensive hardware attached to it it seems like it's not worth it to try and reuse it, but at the same time it seems like such a waste to just throw out a $130 PSU, but I couldn't sell it in good conscience.

 

How do you guys feel about Corsair PSUs or Gigabyte motherboards? Intel CPU failures seem to be very rare so I'm inclined to believe that something killed it. I'm wondering if I should change brands or if I really just had some bad luck.

Neither of the brands specifically are problem-riddled, but every PC brand has a bad lineup to it (except maybe CaseLabs). If you have a warranty on the RM850, you may want to try and RMA it.

[SALEEN961]

2 minutes ago, GalacticRuler said:

Neither of the brands specifically are problem-riddled, but every PC brand has a bad lineup to it (except maybe CaseLabs). If you have a warranty on the RM850, you may want to try and RMA it.

Yeah it still has a warranty on it, it's only a year old. I'll have to look into it. It's a shame I don't have a PSU load tester to check it, all I ever see in stores are the basic voltage check testers that don't put the PSU under any load, but picking one of those up would at least let me check for obvious problems with my PSU before calling Corsair and RMAing something that might not be broken.

[GalacticRuler]

1 minute ago, SALEEN961 said:

Yeah it still has a warranty on it, it's only a year old. I'll have to look into it. It's a shame I don't have a PSU load tester to check it, all I ever see in stores are the basic voltage check testers that don't put the PSU under any load, but picking one of those up would at least let me check for obvious problems with my PSU before calling Corsair and RMAing something that might not be broken.

Thing is, if it went for a year without issue, it may be a problem that occurs occasionally, which means you may see nothing, put it in a new rig, and then take more parts when it hits the issue again.

[xg32]

41 minutes ago, SALEEN961 said:

So I walked away from my computer for a few minutes and when I came back the screen was flickering and the whole system was completely unresponsive, I tried to reboot and the system failed to POST and there was no video output. I removed every PCIe device and every USB device and it still failed to POST, at this point I notice that I also have a dead fan header. I removed all but one stick of RAM and tried different sticks in different slots, no POST. I unplugged my SSD and every cable from the PSU that didn't go to the motherboard, no POST and still no video output. I swapped CPUs and now I have video output, and I can enter the BIOS, but I still have a dead fan header. The system I swapped my 6700K into won't POST, I swapped the CPUs again and sure enough the no POST, no video output, follows my 6700K.

 

So I have a dead 6700K and a damaged motherboard, I can probably RMA the motherboard but the CPU has no warranty. What concerns me the most is not knowing where the failure originated, why do I have a dead fan header now? Should I trust my power supply after this event, what happened here, this system has been stable for over a year and wasn't aggressively overclocked.

 

Should I try to RMA the board and buy another 6700K/7700K?

 

Should I buy a new Z170/Z270 motherboard and 6700K/7700K?

 

Or should I just buy a whole new Z370 motherboard, power supply, and 8th gen CPU?

 

What do you guys think, I'd really like to hear some opinions.

id throw out the cpu, motherboard and psu (unless it's top notch stuff or ur sure the psu isn't at fault) keep the ram, go with a z370 8700/k

 

I had an incident half a year ago, an evga 970 (the first edition ones with crappy vrm) caught fire, took out my z170 mobo.

 

I then switched to a z270 mobo with a different psu, the cpu then took out my z270 mobo too (LOL), must be shorts.

 

i kept ram and all hd, and the second psu that i bought with the z270.

[GalacticRuler]

Just now, xg32 said:

id throw out the cpu, motherboard and psu (unless it's top notch stuff or ur sure the psu isn't at fault) keep the ram, go with a z370 8700/k

Don't throw it out. Try and RMA it first.

[SALEEN961]

1 minute ago, GalacticRuler said:

Thing is, if it went for a year without issue, it may be a problem that occurs occasionally, which means you may see nothing, put it in a new rig, and then take more parts when it hits the issue again.

 

I'm with you on that, I'm not reusing it, I'd never feel comfortable with it because of that possibility, and to be honest if I RMA it and get the same unit back I still don't want it, my day is already ruined and I haven't been able to test my 1080ti yet to make sure it's ok, and the 1TB SSD I just put in needs to be tested too, I'm currently using my Node 202 work PC which I luckily had at home today.

[xg32]

1 minute ago, SALEEN961 said:

 

I'm with you on that, I'm not reusing it, I'd never feel comfortable with it because of that possibility, and to be honest if I RMA it and get the same unit back I still don't want it, my day is already ruined and I haven't been able to test my 1080ti yet to make sure it's ok, and the 1TB SSD I just put in needs to be tested too, I'm currently using my Node 202 work PC which I luckily had at home today.

the video card is the one thing im worried about based on this info, gl man.

[just_dave]

Your board died because its a cheap piece of shit.

I reckon the VRMs were overheating and the entire power delivery failed.

Gigabyte boards are mostly junk, especially the lowend ones.

[SALEEN961]

1 hour ago, dave_k said:

Your board died because its a cheap piece of shit.

I reckon the VRMs were overheating and the entire power delivery failed.

Gigabyte boards are mostly junk, especially the lowend ones.

 

I was only running 1.23Vcore so I never put the board under any real load. The board still works when a good CPU is installed despite the one fan header that died when the CPU died. I can't really speak to their quality as my sample size sucks, but they've been ok for me in the past (you know how today is going). I just got it because it had the combination of features I was looking for and a decent price at $140 back when I bought it.

 

To be fair most low end products suck regardless of manufacturer or product type, I don't think this board really qualifies as low end, but hey look how that's going for me. Then again I had an Asus board die too ( P5N32-E nForce 680i), I think I just have awful luck, the motherboard that lasted me the longest was a Intel D975XBX2 that I bought as a $50 refurb from Microcenter, go figure. If I replaced the leaking capacitors on it, it would probably still work lol.

[xg32]

7 hours ago, SALEEN961 said:

 

I was only running 1.23Vcore so I never put the board under any real load. The board still works when a good CPU is installed despite the one fan header that died when the CPU died. I can't really speak to their quality as my sample size sucks, but they've been ok for me in the past (you know how today is going). I just got it because it had the combination of features I was looking for and a decent price at $140 back when I bought it.

 

To be fair most low end products suck regardless of manufacturer or product type, I don't think this board really qualifies as low end, but hey look how that's going for me. Then again I had an Asus board die too ( P5N32-E nForce 680i), I think I just have awful luck, the motherboard that lasted me the longest was a Intel D975XBX2 that I bought as a $50 refurb from Microcenter, go figure. If I replaced the leaking capacitors on it, it would probably still work lol.

I'm kinda bummed that the motherboard is the single low-end component on the build, the rest of it look good. But ya, who knows, it coulda been the psu but who knows. The VRM on that motherboard is very weak tho.

[alphaproject]

This is scary because here I am on my still working perfectly I5-2500K and Asus P8Z68!

 

Same PSU... OCZ 650ZT.  The only thing I've changed was HDD and SSD over the years and the GPUs many times now. Never touched the RAM or CPU/Mobo.