EDIT: After some googling I came up with the problem. MSI has a 4 phase power design on this board, apparently, and it is the mosfets that caught on fire. I guess better boards have heat-sinks there, and this had none.
So...you think this is covered under warranty by any stretch of the imagination, or am I just going to have to eat it?
Up until this point I've been crunching with an AMD quad core with no problems at all. In the HAF932, there's definitely enough airflow, too.
The motherboard is an MSI 870A-G54.
Newegg link here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...5&Tpk=870A-G54
MSI link here: http://www.msi.com/product/mb/870A-G...div=CPUSupport
I purchased the X6 1090T this morning at Frys. Pulled out the quad and had the X6 running in minutes! Had it crunching maybe 45 Min. on PG, and everything appeared to be alright. Glad I stuck around to keep an eye on it, though, because it just caught on fire! Didn't even get a chance to do an O/C or anything yet.
Newegg link for CPU here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103849
AMD link here: http://www.amd.com/us/products/deskt...omparison.aspx
Good thing the HAF-932 case is pretty much see through. I heard a little noise, and turned my head to see a flame about the size you would expect from a Bic lighter, coming from over by the CPU. Of course, at that point, it shut itself off as I was scrambling to unplug it and all that.
Looking at it in the light, it is obvious that the little black squares in between the chokes and the capacitors are what caught on fire. Two of them are split wide open.
EDIT: I now know these are called Mosfets, and you can mouse over the picture on the MSI link and see the little black squares in between the chokes and the caps that caught fire.
According to their website, this board should be well within spec to run an AMD X6. Claims it even goes to 140W CPU capability, and this CPU is 125W.
Very much spontaneous, no warning at all. What's crazy is that the load on the entire computer was less today than before, because I pulled the 5850 out earlier last night, and only had ONE GPU - the 5870 running in the box with the 1090T.
PSU is a fairly good one - ANTEC 650W Earthwatts. Link here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817371015
And HSF works well enough, it's not like CPU was that hot. Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-056-_-Product
Wonder if there is any kind of warranty on the mobo for stuff like this? Anything I'm missing anything else here, or do you think this should have worked just fine from the specs given on their website and at Newegg?