Guys
If you have the Max formula before you push this board hard make sure you reseat/make sure the heatsinks covering the mosfets are sitting correctly and doing their job. i just started testing Q6850 at 4GHZ 1.5V with 8GB ram 1000MHZ 1.8V and within 5 mins 1 phase has blown off the board thru poor cooling to the fets.
See pics below:
4 fets blown...awesome board while it lasted:
Here you can see the poor contact from the heatsink...4GHZ load was just to much
Be clever and make sure the heatsinks are seated right...mine were not it seems
Side note, CPU was watercooled and had a bloted thru backplate, in no way was this board bowing thru to much pressure on the CPU mounting. Applied force to CPU was 55LBS which is well within Intels specs, Ambient room temp in the workshop is 12C also and i had fans blowing over the board.
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