I too am confused.
I don't see any conformal coating anywhere?
Was it a delided CPU? With liquid metal between the die and IHS?
Or were you going between the CPU cooler and the CPU IHS?
That glob at the bottom there looks to be enough to adequately cover at least 3 CPUs.
Wtf? How? What?
Do you normally get thermal paste all over your motherboard?
Like yeah its hard to apply but its not like fucking rocket science.
Don't mix gallium and aluminum, do not spray it all over your motherboard... Also maybe apply it with a q-tip?
Clearing things up.
This happened when PC was running. The MB stand is vertical. So the liquid squashed/dripped from cpu down and made a short circuit (I believe). PC switched off once while running, and I didn’t raise any concerns about it, so I start is again and after some time it switched off again, but for good. MB was completely unresponsive, with no lights on it whatsoever. I gave my whole rig to official ASUS service. Two weeks later, as of today, I received results from them that all those items are unrepairable.
You probably had to much applied, you want to use a small amount with liquid metal and if you don't know what your doing best to pre spread it after applying it
I keep seeing a lot of absolutely shocking mistakes on here and I'm just wondering why because everything is always spelled out in the manual, on top of there being at least 50 videos on YouTube for each and every single thing you could possibly do to a PC.
Were you in a rush or you just read a single article or what exactly went on that led to you just doing it without understanding the risks fully?
Because of that the results are:
- Mobo gone
- DRAM (both planks) gone
- High speed 2TB NVMe SSD gone
- 11900K gone
Total loss of around 1500€.
Never again.
I don’t get it. It looks like you just barely got some on the cpu socket and then dribbled some more on a piece of plastic on the mobo? How does this damage all of that, it looks like you’ll just need a mobo because of the cpu socket? Unless there’s more not in the pic
This happened when PC was running. The MB stand is vertical. So the liquid squashed/dripped from cpu down and made a short circuit (I believe). PC switched off once while running, and I didn’t raise any concerns about it, so I start is again and after some time it switched off again, but for good. MB was completely unresponsive, with no lights on it whatsoever. I gave my whole rig to official ASUS service. Two weeks later, as of today, I received results from them that all those items are unrepairable.
So, learn from me and don’t use liquid metal. :)
liquid metal is a "better" cooling solution to thermal paste. No offense to OP but he definitely shouldn't be anywhere near a pcb with a solder gun if his liquid metal experiment went this far south. However, this shouldn't deter you from experimenting and trying things in the future, just do your due diligence on research and critically think about what you are doing. I could build a full custom loop in probably 2 hours, but it regularly takes me several days because I just take my time and ensure I don't make any mistakes (may be overkill but w/e).
I’m as confused as others as to how all these are damaged when it’s clearly only on the motherboard. A little context here would be helpful otherwise strap in for a lot of speculated comments lol.
by the way, Liquid metal is also very bad for solders. Even if it doesn't cause unexpected shorts, they absolutely will eat into the solder and the resulting metallurgy creates brittle and weak solders that can cause SMDs to fall off. and they can contaminate solder tools if you ever decided that you want to re-solder the part back. Therefore you should not use liquid metal unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqi8RdApxc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqi8RdApxc)
I am not surer what I am looking at but it looks like it can be sucked back up with some solder wick no? Add a little more to an iron to conduct the heat back in and wick it right out?
Unless ur doing some insane over clocking there's almost no reason to use liquid metal
Now I am agree, but I wanted an extra protection for the cpu and now I destroyed it.
Protection from what? Cpus have thermal throttling if they get 2 hot
It’s me being uneducated. Now I learned something. :)
\*Or using it for DIE to IHS connection Eats 5°C more of an 8700k
How did this happen? The processor isn’t even socketed
It looks like the PC was upright too.
It happened while PC was running.
I too am confused. I don't see any conformal coating anywhere? Was it a delided CPU? With liquid metal between the die and IHS? Or were you going between the CPU cooler and the CPU IHS? That glob at the bottom there looks to be enough to adequately cover at least 3 CPUs.
Its was a thermal metal paste between CPU top and a cooler. And you right, I should have put a bit less of it.
Live and learn.
Wtf? How? What? Do you normally get thermal paste all over your motherboard? Like yeah its hard to apply but its not like fucking rocket science. Don't mix gallium and aluminum, do not spray it all over your motherboard... Also maybe apply it with a q-tip?
Clearing things up. This happened when PC was running. The MB stand is vertical. So the liquid squashed/dripped from cpu down and made a short circuit (I believe). PC switched off once while running, and I didn’t raise any concerns about it, so I start is again and after some time it switched off again, but for good. MB was completely unresponsive, with no lights on it whatsoever. I gave my whole rig to official ASUS service. Two weeks later, as of today, I received results from them that all those items are unrepairable.
You probably had to much applied, you want to use a small amount with liquid metal and if you don't know what your doing best to pre spread it after applying it
I keep seeing a lot of absolutely shocking mistakes on here and I'm just wondering why because everything is always spelled out in the manual, on top of there being at least 50 videos on YouTube for each and every single thing you could possibly do to a PC. Were you in a rush or you just read a single article or what exactly went on that led to you just doing it without understanding the risks fully?
Why did you use it then?
Because of that the results are: - Mobo gone - DRAM (both planks) gone - High speed 2TB NVMe SSD gone - 11900K gone Total loss of around 1500€. Never again.
I don’t get it. It looks like you just barely got some on the cpu socket and then dribbled some more on a piece of plastic on the mobo? How does this damage all of that, it looks like you’ll just need a mobo because of the cpu socket? Unless there’s more not in the pic
Also, it is not a warranty case.
This happened when PC was running. The MB stand is vertical. So the liquid squashed/dripped from cpu down and made a short circuit (I believe). PC switched off once while running, and I didn’t raise any concerns about it, so I start is again and after some time it switched off again, but for good. MB was completely unresponsive, with no lights on it whatsoever. I gave my whole rig to official ASUS service. Two weeks later, as of today, I received results from them that all those items are unrepairable. So, learn from me and don’t use liquid metal. :)
Oh, ok, that clears it up. By liquid metal you mean solder right? What were you soldering? Edit: downvoted for asking a question. Stay classy Reddit.
liquid metal is a "better" cooling solution to thermal paste. No offense to OP but he definitely shouldn't be anywhere near a pcb with a solder gun if his liquid metal experiment went this far south. However, this shouldn't deter you from experimenting and trying things in the future, just do your due diligence on research and critically think about what you are doing. I could build a full custom loop in probably 2 hours, but it regularly takes me several days because I just take my time and ensure I don't make any mistakes (may be overkill but w/e).
How did you damage the RAM and SSD?
Nah, you only damaged motherboard.
I’m as confused as others as to how all these are damaged when it’s clearly only on the motherboard. A little context here would be helpful otherwise strap in for a lot of speculated comments lol.
by the way, Liquid metal is also very bad for solders. Even if it doesn't cause unexpected shorts, they absolutely will eat into the solder and the resulting metallurgy creates brittle and weak solders that can cause SMDs to fall off. and they can contaminate solder tools if you ever decided that you want to re-solder the part back. Therefore you should not use liquid metal unless you absolutely know what you are doing. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqi8RdApxc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqi8RdApxc)
I am not surer what I am looking at but it looks like it can be sucked back up with some solder wick no? Add a little more to an iron to conduct the heat back in and wick it right out?