Show Us Your WEI [4]

There was some brown liquid in 1 of the ram slots and 1 of the traces was burned up, brown liquid between the 2 sets of ram sticks.

It seems to have happened after installing the 2nd 770, then running Heaven and 3DMark11, the timings were lowered to 9-9-9-24 on the ram, but it was running fine on those timings for a few weeks so...

The monitor went off and no come back, so I started troubleshooting. It would only post with 2 ram sticks, so I looked closer and saw the damage.

I might buy this anyway. To replace my G45

http://compu-america.com/msi-z77a-gd...FaN9OgodFTQAZQ

Yeah I was curious what happened too. I'm glad you got the new parts coming.
Updated wei, having a hard drive issue

HD problem

Dude, I don't know about Windows 8. I had trouble with it when I had it. I have 8.1 in a VM right now, but WEI in a VM is useless anyway, so I've never even tried it. (last time I tried a WEI in a VM was Win 7. My 780 got a 1.0 score.) But, Crucials (I have about 2 or 3 of them) have much lower write speeds than most. It could be taking that into account. But, it really does not matter running an OS, you would never notice it. I also have 2 Samsung 840 256GB Pros I'm thinking about putting in Raid 0, and they seem to be a little faster than the Crucials. But, you will only notice it if you own both and are watching to see which is faster.

@AddRam, Do you think the brown liquid came from the GPU or from your CPU cooler. That sounds strange to me. Just my 2 cents, but if you get it replaced, I would stay with the Sabertooth. They are great boards. I have one in my backup rig with a 3770K and it does as good as you can do with almost any board.

Actual brown liquid, or perhaps electrolytic from a bad cap? A Guy

Brown liquid can also be coffee, tea, or Soda.
If it was a light brown, like the color of coffee with cream, it's likely electrolytic as Bill said.

Great numbers Paul

A Guy

It looked like a trace heated up and burned a little bit of the brown motherboard, it wasn`t a cap. And there was something melted down at the bottom of 1 of the dimm slots.

AddRAM said:

It looked like a trace heated up and burned a little bit of the brown motherboard, it wasn`t a cap. And there was something melted down at the bottom of 1 of the dimm slots.

Gremlins I tell the!

I pulled out too many control rods and the core overheated causing the aforementioned meltdown. releasing a 15 mile high mushroom cloud of radioactive isotopes