It was an asrock taichi ultimate and definitely dead now. I have a new board on order but will my Ryzen 3700 work in that or is that dead too? To be clear, some water got in between the CPU and the socket while it was installed, and the machine will no longer POST. I flushed it with isopropanol and compressed CO2. Pretty sure its dead now. I just really want my CPU to still work. If they are both dead I need to quit computers.
What are the chances? Should I just buy a new CPU now or is it actually worth testing this one in the new board?
Itās worth a try, at least. If it works, then fine. If not and budget is an issue, consider downgrading to a 1600AF or the newer 3100. At 120 USD (or thereabouts) both are fairly cheap and should keep you running for a while.
If there was a failure somewhere near the CPU, then Iād expect that to get water all over the board and the socket. That would be much more dramatic than anything Iād call āwater in the socketā, but maybe thatās just me.
I was being an idiot and I donāt want to tell you what I didā¦ but, I made my own thermal paste, and I knew it was gunna kill my pc, out of salt water and smashed up pencil lead, thatās what got in the socket, the worst possible thing.
Well guess what, I just had a terrible 5 hours sleep and the board works now. No kidding.
I ordered real thermal paste and a good cooler too last night. I was really pushing this chip to the edge of its limits.
I only powered it down to mess with the thermal paste as it was running 105 degrees.
So I ordered a new cooler too.
I have made my own thermal compound before out of non conductive grease and smashed pencil lead and it worked great so I got cocky, I tried to make it again, but couldnāt find the grease, I used salt water, knowing full well what I was doing was lethal, I spent ages āmaking sureā not too much of the water was left (my intention was to dry with hair dryer a d leave only salt) but during this process one single drop of that BS got into the socket.
Donāt ever ever ever get impatient to see gains and make your own water based compound.
The weird thing is, I know my compound was gunna really rock it was magnesium salt and stuff like that but donāt risk it just donāt risk it
Now I have to do a full dayās work and Iām shattered I stayed up all night doing that.
Iām thinking for my use case a high end x470 board is as good as a low end b550 board. I donāt see any compelling reason not to cancel my order for the new board now. I did look at x570 but I wonāt buy a board with a chipset fan ever again since 3013. I just donāt like them.
I donāt like the idea that pci4 has a monstrous energy cost and little benefit right now.
One reason why I messed with water is because Iām so lucky i always get away with things. I got away with it yet again so this isnāt going to help my case in future, I still believe I can do anything lol.
I wonāt do that again though because I value my time and sleep.
