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fuckin broke my motherboard
classic
What happened?
so for context its a dual socket board, intel skimped out on the heatsink spec for 5500/5600 chipset boards, northbridge would be hitting in excess of 90c so my idea was get an airflow orientated case, repaste the chipset and hopefully sort it. case arrives, paste cleaner and new paste doesnt so i contact the shipping company, the fucking cleaner leaked in transit so i then contact the retailer and have to wait 3-5 days for a reply. end up ordering the same shit from amazon, comes next day so i strip the old rig and go to repaste the chipset. it uses push pins for the heatsink that you had to pinch on the rear of the board with pliers and pull through to remove it. i do that and one of the pins just shatters, the other snaps. i fuck around and get it off, clean the chipset and repaste it. figured i could just zip tie it back on but i guess i zip tied too hard and cracked the chipset die as everything powered on but just wouldnt post.
luckily i happen to know a guy with the exact same board who sold it for a good price, so that arrived and now everything is built in the enthoo pro.
bad pic sorry.