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RageBone
7y

Got a new motherboard today, a Asus crosshair vi hero, AM4 for amd ryzen.

Bought is as broken / defective, it supposedly works except 2 ram slots should not get detected.

On a closer look, the story of water-damage didn't seem right.

Disassembled everything and took another look.

😲😨 "Is that solder tin? What the actual fuck?"

*Scratche it with tweezers

*"Supposed solder tin" becomes liquid and moves

😱 "The fuck that's liquid metal"
😵 Who the fuck sprinkles liquid metal all over a board?
😳Ryzen is solderd why the fuck should someone use liquid metal?

What the heck

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  • 1
    7y
    @killermenpl that's what i'm assuming too.
    But why should he lie about it?

    If you spill liquid metal while applying it, you normally notice that.
    At least in theory.
  • 1
    7y
    @killermenpl
    The thing is much peculiar then just that.

    According to the seller, the board was RMA ed twice.
    The "water-damage" shall have happened on the way from the supplier to him, after which he rma ed it a second time because of this "water damage"

    He claims to never have used liquid metal, nor have water-cooled it.

    And I also doubt that the shop (supplier) used liquid metal.
  • 5
    7y
    @RageBone I smell lies.
  • 1
    7y
    I smell shit-tier solder. I've seen solder that I can nip off with tweezers before, it behaves very much like liquid metal and it looks, for all intents and purposes, like water damage from a cursory glance.

    I've also seen this on high end graphics cards, and there's even a video of the same on Louis Rossman's channel. Its just shitty workmanship.
  • 0
    7y
    @monr0e
    I can testify that this was liquid metal.
    Did not behave like solder at all and it
    did exactly behave like I expect liquid metal does, so it is liquid metal.
    😁
    Some areas looked a bit like they might have seen a tinie tiny bit of water, but not bad enough for me to care.

    And if it were solder, why should someone (except me) put solder in random places on a perfectly good board?

    And if it were, there would be other indicators that it was solder. I guess.

    But hey, another Louiss Rossmann (fan | folllower | watcher )
  • 2
    7y
    Maybe he had an accident...
  • 2
    7y
    Make sure you clean your hands in case its actually mercury. That shit is bad af
  • 1
    7y
    @c3ypt1c Well, after I figured out what it was and therefore became aware of possible complications, I started to wear gloves.

    Maybe that was a bit late but what can I do.
  • 1
    7y
    Âhm... Ist it just me or does it look like it got fried!? Kinda Smokey around that screw hole....
  • 1
    7y
    @Rohr
    I think it's just you.

    Though that is where the liquid metal was, but that is no smoke.
  • 2
    7y
    Where is Fatherboard?
  • 1
    7y
    @Devnergy somewhere out there on the way back home to me 😀

    Would be a x399 setup. TR ..
  • 0
    7y
    @RageBone hmm ... It siriously does not look normal though...
  • 0
    7y
    @Rohr yes, that silvery thing is liquid metal, that did not belong there.

    The black thing around the hole is a plastic washer to protect the pcb.
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