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Oh MSI motherboard, we meet again!!!
Its not the same board this is 890GXM, I was being told by a reliable source they pretty much do the similarish thing. Here's the one with the E45:
http://h-3.abload.de/img/unbenannt7eig.jpg
Technically its the voltage regulator. Some folks in overclock.net pointed specifically towards 4th or 5th one but look closer towards the second pic. One of the phase is not soldered properly through the back. I've seen few Tier 2-3ish boards with similar bad job. suffice to say avoid it. Quality issues big time. Don't recommend blindly.
No it doesn't happen when overclocked. It happens on default settings with Automatic Vcore on. Its way above than what it should be. Might be a Bios thing but last time I checked even if you take the VCORE manually to the default level the bios says "not recommended". Strange- Maybe because the bios requires manual clock+ multiplier to set the vcore manually (or maybe not)? Current MSI users can confirm that if they can give it a shot. If it happens even on newer bios, one can safely assume its not a bios thing.
Basically, your defination of kaboom applies here. Manufacturers claim it will work, but it does not. 95w processors **might** do it but I wouldn't bet my 5k on it. Would you?
You will find more where that came from in overclock.net! There used to be a lot of them on msi's forums but MSI removed them (lol). I believe hexus did a review with 1090T and this board? The samples given to reviewers are specifically cherry picked, made to handle such loads.
In this case the "potentially" killing the system burns out the voltage regulator, depending on the load, the MOSFETs and the Solid caps. Its not the quality of the components that is questioned, but the circuitry design+ keeping it cool that is. Some of these 8 phase boards are 4+4 phase in reality, 8+2 actually being 4+1 with inductors physically being split up (again, depends on the circuit design which obviously not many manufacturers would reveal it).
Moral of the story: Cheap ain't good. Speaking of phase:
Yeah not easy to get to know the facts. Point is avoid that board.
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