Another dead MCP355 DDC3.2 almost took my 980x with it.

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Well so today while I was working with a few partners for a business document, I smelt a STRONG plastic PCB burning smell, So while I was checking where it was coming from, my pc bsod'd, so then as soon as I noticed it, I cut the power to everything, upon opening up my system, right around where my water pump is I noticed a strong burning smell... So I figured its either the pump or my fan controller. I took everything down and re-checked, seemed fine. So i did a dry test, with only power to the pump. GPU loop pump seems perfectly fine... then When i looked at the cpu pump... wasn't running. So i shut down my pc, stripped everything.

Took out my res, and voila, HUGE scorched mark on the cpu DDC pump...

I'm typing on the 980x as we speak, the logs showed that the cpu hit about 90c before bsoding, at 4.4ghz with 1.41v.... Luckily it's running fine on stock clocks, and stress testing as we speak on air.

Stress testing seems fine........

Let me upload pics:


See the melted plastic? This isn't even the bad part




Ouch, wonder where the damage is from?

NOTE, THERE WAS NO WATER LEAK, that loop was running fine for the past 3 months or so, I checked, O-Ring was intact, no water leaks whatsoever... The pump just spontaneously combusted.. Luckily, it didn't take my precious 980x with it.