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you guys remember about a year and a half ago I was doing a video about how the FX series processor although old was a much better bargain than the Intel i3 73 50k overclocking dual-core chip well if you also recall in that video I killed it because I was overclocking it and it died so I'm gonna go ahead and visit that today and I figure out why it died and hopefully fix it because in this series of this this era now where we're trying to do a lot more budget oriented stuff FX is still very relevant to the budget builder and I want a working FX rig so we got to figure this out the all new master liquid 120 and 240 l RGB coolers provide an easy and reliable way to keep your processor nice and cool they're all new dual chamber pump and low resistance radiator offer a higher transfer of heat for both Intel and AMD CPUs while six preset lighting effects in RGB ensure that the 120 and 240 L seamlessly match your color design choice make it yours by following the link in the description below so I'm going to recommend you guys go and watch that video before moving forward and I'll have a card that pops out right here but in a nutshell while I was doing my overclocking and stuff and doing my benchmark runs my Cinebench runs comparing it to the i3 on a restart it died like it just died in between one reboot and to kind of show you what's happening here will show you right now make sure you get in tight on this NIC you might not even get to see it it happens so quickly when I push the power button it just instantly trips watch for in this case it's not even turning on so this what yeah I know what I'm doing oh crap it just drops gears now the last time I tried using this it was at least clicking on for like a split second but yeah we're plugged in okay now the reason why we're doing this is because I actually have a spare FX CPU and board now I was pretty convinced I killed the CPU the audience was pretty convinced it's a bad motherboard so at least I can test this this was my dad's old motherboard and CPU so at least it's gonna get a little bit more use we're actually keeping this in a display because obviously this is a sentimental piece to me so most people like I said were telling me the motherboard was bad so the first thing I'm gonna try is swapping in this CPU I don't think that that's gonna fix it but that's at least where we're gonna start so I can at least make sure this power supply is working by using this jumper that comes with a lot of water cooling kits and stuff now all this does as you can see is it jumpers together two pins if you're using ketchup and mustard cables it's a greet the green wire and the black wire all that's doing is jump ring those which is fooling the motherboard into thinking you pushed the power switch because that will at least then tell me if we have power so when I turn on the power switch on the mother on the power supply interesting so whatever is wrong is tripping the power supply like immediately I have a theory now if I unplug the CPU power cable which my hands do not fit in here very well so all I did was unplug the EPS power this is the the four pin slash eight pin or the dual four pin this is what gives your CPU power specifically the only two colors on here are yellow and black that's because it's giving 12 volt and ground and that's it and nothing can't have been a bad power supply all this time we are plugged in right just to make sure we've got good power here I mean what am I gonna do I have to lose now right I would love for it to not be a bad motherboard or CPU obviously I would hate for it I've been sitting here idle all this time okay so obviously we have power if my my power supply went bad you bet I'm gonna contact EVGA and be like hey give me a new one because I bought this guy I bought it with my own money guy that's such a terrible place for the8 can't get my hands in there my big fat pants oh wait I'm trying plug PCIe into the CPU that'll go well it's keyed it wouldn't gone anyway get in your home this is worse than trying to do it on a tank Millie start all right okay we're gonna try and power it up now ah did you hear it instantly click yeah they click back off yeah we know it's not powers back but here's the thing now if I unplug the e to the e PS so we have now narrowed it down to either CPU or the motherboard I basically was banking on it being CPU the audience however was like no those problems that you're exhibiting are more so in line with a bad motherboard wouldn't be kind of cool if my dad's motherboard lived on in our testbench obviously I don't want to blow it up all right I mean we already are I say weak I already blew this one up it's always that one standoff like unscrews with the screw you know someday we'll clean up this wiring issue huh like well actually come up with a decent power distribution distribution system not today so if we end up getting the same result we'll watch the month this fan will tell us what's happening this fan starts to turn and then stops and instantly we'll know it there you go so you can actually hear the the power breaker or the safety system inside the power supply keeping us from killing our stuff now we're gonna go ahead and remove the cooler and we are going to put in a new CPU in this motherboard know we can take bets now Nick do you think it's the CPU or you think it's the motherboard I'm kind of leaning that way too so if anything died on this motherboard it's potentially VRM maybe we'll do a Fidesz turn out to be a bad motherboard will take off will take off the heatsink and will inspect it and we might see a fried component but initially I don't see any chokes or capacitors that are swollen or leaking and as are we good to see if we if we won or lost in terms of our bet because we bet the same noise on same thing okay so it looks like the internet was probably right how about that I hate when the Internet's right yeah hey I'm on the Internet does that make me right yeah all right so let's just swap everything over to this board has rock killer board fatality so this was my dad's CPU so we're gonna go back with this one this was the original CPU we did our overclocked testing with it'll be nice to have the FX system up and running again though because I want to do all kinds of like bottleneck testing and content that like applies to more people turn right back off mmm did we kill both let's try this again man that would be if I killed CPU and motherboard at all in one but it's staying on for a little bit longer isn't it hmm well that thing's being stubborn you know what though it makes sense that if we killed a vrm we could have potentially also killed the CPU so I'm just gonna swap my dad's back in there so now we've got my dad's CPU my dad's motherboard so it should work if it doesn't Wow so we killed not only the motherboard with CPU - I can't really last time I killed two components at will in one so we were both right Internet I did kill the CPU the motherboard was what killed it - you guys were technically right first so ruined you we're just gonna we're gonna kind of cut this video real quick and then we are gonna come back with the rig reassembled in however I decided to assemble it so we'll see you guys in a minute all right so this is the fractal design mesh if I see this is the rig I put together for the FX build this is a 10 60 just chilling in there temporarily and as you can see we're in the BIOS unfortunately what you guys didn't see was I couldn't get it to boot with my dad's CPU in there which I know for a fact worked prior to doing this video because we used it many times so I think by putting this CPU in the other motherboard killed it it has now gone to the CPU heaven in this guy so yeah I'm bummed about that his motherboard still works at least I have that what's in here right now in case you're wondering is an FX 6100 which I had laying around and haven't used in years just to verify that it was a dead CPU and so yeah in in the process of all of this I've killed one motherboard and two CPUs it powered on it's just the CPU gave us no video it's now I've got to get a new CPU for this we were running in 8320 now I gotta get an 83 50 maybe like at 80 seventy or something like that but we got one more thing to do before we get out of here I'm gonna shut this down these fans are running full speed we've got to take the heatsink off of the other motherboard to see if we can see a damaged component at least get something educational out of this guess in hindsight the way I should have tested was by putting the bad CPU and the good motherboard but how else would we have known if this was a bad motherboard well I guess if it working the other mother was right anyway there's that let's take these off on the surface it does not look like anything popped in terms of the vrm or the delivery we got a little bit of thermal paste or a thermal tape compound thermal pad and it's stuck to it I don't see any bad components in here you know everything looks fine that's the crazy part so yeah now I got to get a new CPU at least we'll have a working FX rig once again so guys give this video like if you feel any pity towards me right now or give it a like if you don't or whatever you know I already care to be honest I'm I'm mad I'm mad at this this thing all right I'm gonna go guys thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one you you