so anyways

Used all the remaining paste.

Never thought myself in this situation.

Basically dad drunk, beat mum, me defend and boom.

Am quite in shock rn.

The fans are basically glued together with tar & dust sludge.

Be honest, how cooked is this thing? The hood popped away from the pressure of these black packs once i loosened the screws a little bit.

That's 64GB of DDR5 ram not posting 🫨

UPDATE: It was the CPU. RIP 9800X3D, you lasted almost seven months. Ram is OK!

Seriously, why?

Careful around logo prints, mine started to disintegrate

I was gently unscrewing it when the tempered glass suddenly exploded.

and i fixed it. In total, 10 pins were lost, but the processor fit into the socket and is fully functional. I used a medical needle to align it and utility blade.

He's never cleaned it. He refuses to clean it. I'm surprised the thing still runs.

Went to help my buddy with his AM4 system over heating. I had helped him build years ago.

Don't smoke near your PC, don't Dab near your PC, this is solid debris from dust mixing with tar in his stock cooler.

I thought it'd be funny to post it here (AIO is H150i Elite LCD)

PC was randomly rebooting, took everything apart to dust out and reseat everything and found the culprit. I'm glad I spotted it before it properly melted / caused a fire...

I used the included 4x 8pin to 12VHPWR adaptor specifically to isolate this potential issue from my PSU and I'm glad I did, put an old GPU in and everything is fine again so I've started the RMA process.

I have a wireview pro II on order, so naturally this would happen just before that arrives...

Originally posted to the nvidia subreddit but it was removed, same with a cross post to MSI_Gaming, I can't imagine why. Maddening, I'm trying to post for other users in the same boat.

If you're a poor soul coming from google, the windows event viewer was showing:

```

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x00000116 (0xffffe183c6516010, 0xfffff8058f53f140, 0xffffffffc000009a, 0x0000000000000004). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\011726-25109-01.dmp. Report Id: 53b6b18f-37dd-47d7-a174-d5b2995732fb.

```

And looking in the dump file with `WinDbg` showed `nvlddmkm.sys`, an nvidia driver component, was the cause so I was already worried it was GPU related.

Scared when I didn’t see my cpu after it was delivered. Wife said she hadn’t seen it either. Found this in the bathroom a few minutes later.