ASUS X99 Motherboard Goes Up in Smoke![10/2 update]

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well, this is kinda surprise me
Intel X99 Motherboard Goes Up in Smoke For Reasons Unknown


For the x99 asus mb, one of the mosfets is burned during the XMP test, and I believed both CPU (i7-5960x) and mb (ASUS X99 Deluxe) are died for sure. (cost like $1500 in USD?)

This is happend durning the xmp test, so share this info for you guys.
(for the most of cases, if the mb burning at some other place, may not damage you cpu or gpu as well, but if the mosfet burning up, it may also damage your cpu, or all other components)

so, please noted: DO NOT Run the XMP test on the ASUS mb right now((ASUS X99 Deluxe),
I think most of you are already buy/planning to build a pc with x99 platform, should wait for the announce from ASUS, to see what's wrong with it. ( I believe ASUS may write a announcement with this burning issue, so just need to be wait), or get the x99 from gigabyte or msi as well.
 
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i remember reading about that. it was mostly his own fault. when you are water cooling your CPU and you have your system set up on a test bench in the open like he did, you have to put a fan over the VRMs. why? because there zero airflow to move the heat that builds up in that area. you need airflow to move heat away from the heatsinks cooling the VRMs. otherwise they over heat. this should be pretty obvious.

the reason i say it's *mostly* his fault and not completely is because board manufacturers should...
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Pretty sure an msi board released its magic smoke as well under testing. There were two brands reported in two different locations by different reviewers that catastrophically failed.
 
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So msi mb is also burned? same at mosfet location?
so this mean it may be the cpu problem as well?? or????
 
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Article here: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=msi_x99_fail&num=1
Looks like a different location, but still on the NSB, so I would guess it's a chipset issue or quality control problems on the motherboard end.
 
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i'm not surprised. Asus has problems up the wazoo with their Z87 motherboards, not only did they NOT fix them those problems, they carried over to Z97 motherboards. my asus maximus VI Hero (Z87) blew up one of my EVGA GTX 780s. the PCI slot melted.

they also had a ton of motherboards shipped with defective CMOS batteries, causing the boards to constantly lose their settings and resetting the clock. and this ALSO happened to me. the dead battery caused the BIOS to reset and disabled RAID. my 8TB RAID 5 (3x 4TB drives) booted into windows as 3 separate drives. windows wrote a few small files onto each drive while i was making my coffee and breakfast, and it basically made my RAID 5 unusable. but i had a back up of it so I didn't lose anything. still took 2 days to rebuild the volume.

there were also problems with their boards being unable to run properly with Intel RAID drivers, among other things. i spent 5 months hanging around Asus forums waiting for a solution to at least one of my problems. all i saw was tons of other people with the same issues as me and NOT A SINGLE real solution. just a few workarounds that temporarily worked. my very first build going back to like 2005ish was also on an Asus board, it was a P5ND2 SLI. it died 4 months in. Got it RMAd and that thing died within a year.

when i went to Microcenter to buy my current mobo and CPU, the gigabyte motherboards flew off the shelves within 2 days. and they are still out of stock in the 5 microcenters that are within an hour drive from me. the Asus boards are still in stock at almost every location. i wonder why...

Eventually I bit the bullet and just upgraded to a gigabyte X99 when it came out. i don't know why i bothered leaving gigabyte in the first place. i had 3 consecutive builds from them problem free (Z68, X58, P965 boards). should have stuck with them.

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well, it said "two location" but one see one pic of it,
anyway, both use i7-5960x..so it mean it may be the problem with this cpu???
(any why this guy not using the water cooling for the x99 overclocking????)
 
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i remember reading about that. it was mostly his own fault. when you are water cooling your CPU and you have your system set up on a test bench in the open like he did, you have to put a fan over the VRMs. why? because there zero airflow to move the heat that builds up in that area. you need airflow to move heat away from the heatsinks cooling the VRMs. otherwise they over heat. this should be pretty obvious.

the reason i say it's *mostly* his fault and not completely is because board manufacturers should provide a warning somewhere on the box or the manual to warns users of this phenomenon for the more clueless bunch. same way they write "caution, contents may be hot" on coffee cups. some motherboards that were designed for extreme overclocking came with fan cooled north bridges and VRMs or clip on fans that were to be used to cool the VRMs when liquid cooling was used.

here is an image from that same forum thread you posted showing how to properly set up a test bench and simulate airflow that you would get in a case:
x79_ud5_8gb_adata_2000x_003.jpg
 
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Well, so look like the x99 buring issue may be the ocer's fault again?
 
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Check the link here
http://www.legitreviews.com/intel-x99-motherboard-goes-up-in-smoke-for-reasons-unknown_150008

At first part of it, he said
"This morning I woke up bright and early to benchmark some DDR4 memory kits and found myself waking up not to Folgers in your cup, but the smell of burnt electrical after loading the XMP profiles on a memory kit and restarting the system. Let me tell you what happened, the best I can."
 
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I have just had the same thing done to me....I have been using my new setup for a week getting a few 6d or 6f qcodes which was annoying but managed to try and get around it then two days ago I turned on the machine to find it wouldnt turn on at all...

So I frantically tried a different PSU took everything out and so on and so on only to find it unplugged the cpu power cable it would turn on but with 00 the second I put the cpu power in it was as dead as a dodo....

I contacted amazon then sent me another one which arrived like 3 hours ago I put it all in with just ram cpu and all the normal power plugged in turned it on and 00 q-code and after 10 seconds smoke was coming out of the top left ram slot....now that motherboard is also fried and smokey I have no money now and have no pc amazon is issuing me a full refund on the motherboard but I am not sure if the ram or the cpu is fucked to so I have requested a replacement Ram kit at least and after reading all of this I think I might need to ask for a replacement cpu to.....


I will add not one single overclock was done to this...
 
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My system:

Asus X99 Deluxe Motherboard
Intel 5960X Processor
Corsair H100i Cooler
Corsair Dominator Platinum 2800MHz DDR-4
EVGA GeForce GTX 760 4GB
Samsung EVO 1TB SSD
Samsung EVO 500GB SSD
(two) WD 1TB Black SATA-3
Corsair 760T Chassis
AeroCool Dead Silence 140mm chassis fans (two in the front)

I idle between 28-30c depending on room temp. I never get above 45c in Prime 95. However, I only got xmp to run once. I tried it again and the system will not boot without a CMOS clear.

I did a search on XMP not working on the Asus X99 Deluxe and found this thread.
 
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You are on an early UEFI build I suspect. XMP works fine on this kit (i have the same kit here and the Deluxe).

Latest UEFI:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bz2VRRbLPrZnTmdTY2lTdUdiVUk/edit
 
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I am able to run XMP now. CPU idles around 6c higher, heavy load about 12c higher. I'm still plenty cool, though. Problem is rebooting is a drag, takes several attempts.

Do you think my Thermaltake 850 TP Grand can handle it? Or do I need a fan on the VRM? Or, how can get a normal reboot?
 
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I'll check the post code...

The OC is:

CPU Speed: 3564 MHz
CPU Core: 1.2v
XMP DDR4-2800MHz (profile 1)
But, DRAM Status says 2133Mhz
But, Hardware Monitor says Memory Frequency is 2801Mhz, 1.206v
And, DRAM Frequency is set to 2800Mhz in AI Tweaker

Back with the error code when the bootup hangs soon...
 
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This last time I tried to reboot it got stuck on bd. Then after a few power switch attempts it got through to 33. Then finally through to A2... then a control/alt/delete from there and I finally got booted up.

 
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