Pop goes the EP45
 

Spent the afternoon, and most the night cleaning out a spare room for my bench table, getting ready for DICE next week. Tried booting up my Celeron for air OCs to get use to it, and got constant restarts. On the last try, POP!. Blew a chip in half, and a piece went flying across the room.

First pic is of my setup in the room, second is the chip.

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LOL oh man I hate it when that happens :Dizzy:

Doh! hehe, I'm not laughin at yah, I'm laughin wit yah :D Man I absolutely hate when you take the time to prep the motherboard, pick up the dice, setup the office/closet for a solid day of benching and poof, it dies on FRIGGIN AIR! (HELLO RE ARE YOU LISTENING?????) :Dizzy:

wow dude that sucks

Do you have pics?
Never happen to me, but heard about this happening to other people.

all around the mullberry bush, the monkey chased the weasel, the monkey thought it was all in fun, pop goes the EP445esl. :( bummer Ceceil. I've got a EP45C-UD3R I might be tempted to part with if that would help ya ?

It sucks! Looks like another RMA! :D

Going to get an RMA, thanks though.