FX-8320 and MSI 990FXA Gaming crashed 5 min in prime95

[mrbubblezzzz]

So I believe I am currently mourning the loss of my motherboard and possibly other components of my newly purchased computer.

I currently have an FX-8320, and MSI 990FXA Gaming motherboard, and a Seasonic 850w Bronze PSU with a Deepcool 120mm AIO (not great I know, but I don't think temps were the issue). Overall, I think picked at least decent components.

I have been trying to 4.5Ghz the last few days which has proven difficult. I've messed with many settings and run into problems at anything over 4.2

I think it's pretty clear I didn't win the silicon lottery, but today I finally got it running stable in prime95 at 4.4Ghz at a fairly high voltage (~1.5v, high but still within what most people deemed a safe range) with temps stable at ~62°C (also high, but still recognized as safe for the most part).

Everything was going swimmingly until five minutes into prime95 the screen goes black. No problem right? Just lower the multiplier. However the case fans were all off and it didn't reboot. Upon trying to restart it, the case fan LEDs came on for half a second and turned off. I had it plugged in to a surge protector so I tired a different outlet to make sure and still nothing, just the fans spinning for half a second and switching off.

I think the MOBO fried, but how likely is it that the CPU or anything else got fried as well? I don't see any burnt parts or blown caps, so I'm a bit confused as to what happened.

I'm also wondering if MSI would be any help at this point (obviously OC'ing voids the warranty, but still wondering) and if the settings I was running were dangerous in the first place and this is simply a result of my incompetentence and not bad components.



Sorry for the long winded post, any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[pepslight]

To be honnest, im not an overcloocker but Im doing my studies on electronics and the first thing I learned on my first days is that to much current can be pretty nasty, it maybe indeed fried your internal components inside the cpu, motherboard or what ever was in the electrical circuit. If you really dont have any acces to your pc. you should try to clear all your trash overcloock settings, if you cant manually do it, you need to do a clear CMOS manually on your motherboard, if you really lucky and it didnt happen what I think... than you in lucky, and I guess you should stop pushing your mobo so far :/

If you curious what I wanted to describe above: http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/137108/what-causes-cables-to-get-heated-up-and-melt-in-a-circuit-dc-circuit

Save current for your processor: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1991899/safe-voltages-8320.html

If you where talking above to be at 60 celcious being at passive temperature, that is in my tast WAY to much cant even imagine how hot it got once playing games