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So day before yesterday I was testing my 1090t at 4.2ghz and around 1.5v under load on this whimpy matx board I'm stuck using(long story), there was a nice puff of smelled burning plastics, I thought the magic smoke is out but the system kept on going!
Fast forward to today, I kept getting sudden hard reboots and soon it won't boot at all. I thought I must have killed the VRM or something so I took it all apart: except the cpu power connector. It's melted together and won't come off...
So in the end I had to cut the wires, desolder the socket and hardwire my psu to the board. The lead-free solder they used are f**king hard to melt. Not fun.
Lesson learned: don't do heavy overclocking on a board that only has 4-pin cpu power... duh
Fast forward to today, I kept getting sudden hard reboots and soon it won't boot at all. I thought I must have killed the VRM or something so I took it all apart: except the cpu power connector. It's melted together and won't come off...
So in the end I had to cut the wires, desolder the socket and hardwire my psu to the board. The lead-free solder they used are f**king hard to melt. Not fun.
Lesson learned: don't do heavy overclocking on a board that only has 4-pin cpu power... duh