Deliddee 7700k went wrong

[JL94x4]

Delid with LM gone wrong.. 7700K

So I delidded my CPU yesterday with Kyronaut, that went well shaved around 7c off load temps, not bad.

 

I read using LM was a lot better for conducticity, not phased by the application difficulty, I ordered some Coollaboratory LM Ultra, that arrived today. I took out the CPU, cleaned everything as you would, applied LM the way about 15 other videos told me to, also applied a tiny amount to the IHS in the shape of the Die, everything looked good. Popped the CPU back into the mobo (no spillages) and popped back on the IHS and let the CPU clamp it down, again, no spillages. 

 

Connected back the H100i cooler, and turned on the PC. BOOM, after 4 seconds it turned off, went into some sort of loop, no display, no sounds or anything... just shut off the PC then restarted, power button didn't react, had to pull power from the machine.

 

I took the CPU out, took off the LM and re thermal pasted with Kyronaut, that also did the same looping, so my guess is somehow the CPU is dead. Its totally fine as I've ordered a new 8700K + Z370 mobo as I wanted to upgrade anyway.

 

I'm now worried that I may have caused damage to my GTX 1080 TI and the 16GB of DDR4 RAM but have no means to test. Not ultra bothered if the Mobo is dead, but what's the likely hood of my GPU/RAM and anything else being dead too?

[Oshino Shinobu]

Chances of damaging the GPU/RAM from that are basically non-existent. It will almost certainly be a dead CPU or dead CPU socket (most likely CPU)

[asand1]

Did you paint any insulation on the resistors/diodes on the CPU PCB? The tiniest bit of spill over would cause a short and something like what you report.

[Damascus]

We need pics to be able to say, but the 1080 ti should be fine (unless the gpu is aok and there's a freak coincidence where the gpu died)

[Ebony Falcon]

Happened to me on a 4770k

perfect application 

no spillage, covered the transistors in clear nail varnish put it in and it was dead,

 

stick ihs back down and rma it 

i did and got money back