x99 boards goes up in smoke

[lp231]

This is not a forum question, its a discussion. Toms mobile lacks a lot of features.

Two different boards and both went up in smoke, one of them even took the cpu with it.

www.legitreviews.com/intel-x99-motherboard-goes-up-in-smoke-for-reasons-unknown_150008
www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=msi_x99_fail&num=2

 

[M0j0jojo]

So far it doesn't look pretty for Asus and MSI. anything bad happened to Asrocks boards?

 

[USAFRet]

I saw that yesterday. This is why you don't jump on the new and shiny on day one.

 

[Silencer2079]

I've had 2 go up in smoke in the past week.
Asus X99 Deluxe
Gigabyte X99 G1 Gaming

Both worked for a time, suddenly powered off and wouldnt come back. First one RMA'd and confirmed board and cpu dead. 2nd RMA pending....

Frankly based on my experience, I couldn't recommend anyone get any kind of X99 board.