- Jul 19, 2010
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System specs
GB MB Z77x d3h MB
3770k
GTX 960
Corsair PSU 750 W
Here is what happened last night.
System has been running fine for years. My old water cooler an Antec 620 stopped working well-never leaked. Just had high temps than normal.
I went to Best Buy last night. Got an H100 at 8PM
I had it installed by midnight.
Booted system up. Everything fired on all cylinders. Temps were REALLY low. Booted up Core temp. Idled low 30s.
Played an hour and a half of Rainbow 6 Siege that taxes both CPU and GPU. Max CPU temp was 52.
Latest insider build prompted me to install. I hit install and was letting it install while I went to bed.
Woke up this morning to play. System not turned on at all. I tried to turn it on. Didn't post plus there was a weird plastic smell.
Opened up case. I saw the issue. Literally the left side of my MB had burn marks starting right around the PCI express slow where the GTX 960 was sitting. Then I took card out and it appears the front pin seems to have melting around it. See pictures.
I took Power Supply out. Did the paperclip test. PSU boots up fine.
Took the 3770k out of socket to inspect that. Processor seems fine. No burning anywhere near CPU or socket
Can anyone shed any light on what may have caused this to happen? Usually if I didn't have my graphics card set in slot correctly it wouldn't boot up at all. I have installed plenty of graphics cards in my life and think I know what I am doing.
Any assistance is appreciated. Just seeing where I went wrong. Pic of entire MB
https://goo.gl/photos/27DULPr2bZ1AbFWP7
Pic of front pin of GTX 960
https://goo.gl/photos/btGWyrJwZxef9bpeA
GB MB Z77x d3h MB
3770k
GTX 960
Corsair PSU 750 W
Here is what happened last night.
System has been running fine for years. My old water cooler an Antec 620 stopped working well-never leaked. Just had high temps than normal.
I went to Best Buy last night. Got an H100 at 8PM
I had it installed by midnight.
Booted system up. Everything fired on all cylinders. Temps were REALLY low. Booted up Core temp. Idled low 30s.
Played an hour and a half of Rainbow 6 Siege that taxes both CPU and GPU. Max CPU temp was 52.
Latest insider build prompted me to install. I hit install and was letting it install while I went to bed.
Woke up this morning to play. System not turned on at all. I tried to turn it on. Didn't post plus there was a weird plastic smell.
Opened up case. I saw the issue. Literally the left side of my MB had burn marks starting right around the PCI express slow where the GTX 960 was sitting. Then I took card out and it appears the front pin seems to have melting around it. See pictures.
I took Power Supply out. Did the paperclip test. PSU boots up fine.
Took the 3770k out of socket to inspect that. Processor seems fine. No burning anywhere near CPU or socket
Can anyone shed any light on what may have caused this to happen? Usually if I didn't have my graphics card set in slot correctly it wouldn't boot up at all. I have installed plenty of graphics cards in my life and think I know what I am doing.
Any assistance is appreciated. Just seeing where I went wrong. Pic of entire MB
https://goo.gl/photos/27DULPr2bZ1AbFWP7
Pic of front pin of GTX 960
https://goo.gl/photos/btGWyrJwZxef9bpeA
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