Investigating Reports Of Intel Skylake CPUs Damaged By CPU Coolers

[jimmysmitty]

6700k+212 EVO, removed the cooler and CPU to inspect for damage, nothing found. Mounted it again by bottoming out the screws as I did initially.

I dont think you have to worry abbout anything as long as you dont transport your system with cooler mounted. I suppose if you have the kind of cooler that has a mounting screw that doesnt bottom out you have to be careful not to go full neanderthal with the screwdiver.

I really dont see the problem here, it is all overhyped.

Most problems are over hyped, say like the TLB bug AMD had with the Phenom I that affected maybe 1% of the people using that CPU.

And the funny thing is that transporting a PC with a massive oversized cooler has never been a good idea for any CPU brand. I have seen AMD systems with coolers that the TIM hardened and when shipped the cooler pulled the CPU right out of the socket bending all the pins. Is that AMDs fault? Not really since they only guarantee thier products using their cooler anyways.

 

[Sunderas]

Obviously you have to be careful when moving a system with the cooler on it. Thins is that this particular chip appears to be more fragile as both old and new systems were shipped and these are mushrooming up.

 

[lordstein]

after one month i open mi case and take out my i7 6700k and I can see small signs of two bent corners, i am using cryoring h7 heatsink and z170x gaming 7 board

 

[satyr168]

after one month i open mi case and take out my i7 6700k and I can see small signs of two bent corners, i am using cryoring h7 heatsink and z170x gaming 7 board

after one month i open mi case and take out my i7 6700k and I can see small signs of two bent corners, i am using cryoring h7 heatsink and z170x gaming 7 board

Did you move /transport your PC to another location on that period?

 

[lordstein]

after one month i open mi case and take out my i7 6700k and I can see small signs of two bent corners, i am using cryoring h7 heatsink and z170x gaming 7 board

after one month i open mi case and take out my i7 6700k and I can see small signs of two bent corners, i am using cryoring h7 heatsink and z170x gaming 7 board

Did you move /transport your PC to another location on that period?

i not moved
I inclusive put my tower horizontally, after reading about this problem, I think the pcb is very small that even be bent by simply placing the intel cpu in the socket.

 

[jimmysmitty]

after one month i open mi case and take out my i7 6700k and I can see small signs of two bent corners, i am using cryoring h7 heatsink and z170x gaming 7 board

after one month i open mi case and take out my i7 6700k and I can see small signs of two bent corners, i am using cryoring h7 heatsink and z170x gaming 7 board

Did you move /transport your PC to another location on that period?

i not moved
I inclusive put my tower horizontally, after reading about this problem, I think the pcb is very small that even be bent by simply placing the intel cpu in the socket.

Bending by placing it in the socket is not possible. Intel would have caught that in QA.

The problem is either when a system is moved with an overweight heatsink on it or when it is over tightened (the heatsink). That is why it is always best to utilize a good mount that stops you from overtightening.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Yeah, if the CPU was bent during installation, it's because it was installed wrong. That's just stupidity, laziness or lack of common sense, not any fault of Intel. Like Realbeast's sig says, "I can explain it to you, but I cannot comprehend it FOR you."