- Mar 1, 2013
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So I have had my motherboard and system set up for about a year and a half no issues. I saved up some money and bought my self a water cooling kit and installed that. The first two boots were successful (however i plugged in the basics to the plugs in the back, keyboard, mouse, and monitor), just to see if it will boot up. I ran prime 95 and the temps were lower so i thought every thing was great. However when I plugged all my cords and booted the computer, my computer made a noise and popped then I started smelling smoke . I then investigated and noticed my motherboard and the place where the MOSFET was located was fried.
So, Any reasons why?
Maybe the mother board wasn't strong enough to handle the rig?
MAybe the PSU wasn't strong enough?
Anyways just trying to crack down why the motherboard would fry like that, so any help would be great!
Specs:
Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 MotherBoard
AMD FX 8320
Cooler Master Seidan 120v (Water Cooling)
8 Gigs of Ballistix Ram
Nvidia Reference Card 560ti x2 (SLI)
120 SSD
500 GBs x2
650 watts power supply
So, Any reasons why?
Maybe the mother board wasn't strong enough to handle the rig?
MAybe the PSU wasn't strong enough?
Anyways just trying to crack down why the motherboard would fry like that, so any help would be great!
Specs:
Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 MotherBoard
AMD FX 8320
Cooler Master Seidan 120v (Water Cooling)
8 Gigs of Ballistix Ram
Nvidia Reference Card 560ti x2 (SLI)
120 SSD
500 GBs x2
650 watts power supply
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