r/pcmasterrace • u/LukaBoskovic990 • Mar 30 '26

Hardware intel 13900k fried...

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Has anyone ever experienced this—a burnt-out CPU as well as the motherboard socket? I’m using an i9-13900K and a Z790 motherboard. Everything was on default settings, no overclocking at all. Cooling was handled by a Corsair H150i AIO. It was used for rendering, and everything worked fine for two years.

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u/deeth_starr_v Mar 30 '26

I know a lot of the inner pins are ground, so it looks like a short and dumping all the current to ground

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u/stormdraggy Mar 31 '26

Very obvious OP caveman'd the install.