On April 4th I received all my parts from Newegg and built up my board.
my parts:
Asrock X58 Extreme
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro rev 2
Intel I7-920
OCZ gold 3X2Gig 1600 triple channel memory
Saphire Vapor X Radeon 5870HD video card
Imation M class 64G solid state drive
Western Digital Green 1TB storage drive
Thermaltake 750W power supply.
All this in a Thermaltake Element S case. I added two front 120mm silent fans to the front of the case to blow over the HD's. I began my overclocking and testing until I settled on a 4.002Ghz stable overclock. I monitored temps which were in the mid 50's under load. I was a happy camper.
On 5/21 I was in an online game when I heard a pop sound and my system went dead. I found the choke, LT740 near the corner of the LGA1366 socket burnt. Under the board i saw the pad copper had vaporized; the fibers of the board were visible where the board had a bulge under the part. Clearly this board had a catstrophic part failure. Since this chassis has a hole behind the motherboard to facilitate CPU cooler installation, there is a blast mark on the side panel from the failure of this part.
I know this is a rare problem. Has anyone else experienced a hardware failure like this?
my parts:
Asrock X58 Extreme
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro rev 2
Intel I7-920
OCZ gold 3X2Gig 1600 triple channel memory
Saphire Vapor X Radeon 5870HD video card
Imation M class 64G solid state drive
Western Digital Green 1TB storage drive
Thermaltake 750W power supply.
All this in a Thermaltake Element S case. I added two front 120mm silent fans to the front of the case to blow over the HD's. I began my overclocking and testing until I settled on a 4.002Ghz stable overclock. I monitored temps which were in the mid 50's under load. I was a happy camper.
On 5/21 I was in an online game when I heard a pop sound and my system went dead. I found the choke, LT740 near the corner of the LGA1366 socket burnt. Under the board i saw the pad copper had vaporized; the fibers of the board were visible where the board had a bulge under the part. Clearly this board had a catstrophic part failure. Since this chassis has a hole behind the motherboard to facilitate CPU cooler installation, there is a blast mark on the side panel from the failure of this part.
I know this is a rare problem. Has anyone else experienced a hardware failure like this?
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