Water Cooling and a Broken Mobo Socket

[Thomas L. McLean]

I have done this twice. That comes from having too many projects going at the same time.

I have added a water cooling system to my CPU and had the system fail because of damage to the socket.

This happen on an Asus and a MSI board, using a 1155 socket and i5 Intel processors. In one case, I was using a Corsair H60 and in the other, an Antec 620.

In both cases, when I took the cpu out after the system failed there was a cut through part of the socket pins. It looks like a knife cut. I am wondering if I am over stressing the the mounting bracket or something?

I know this is strange. But, has anyone else had problems installing commercial water coolers? I was doing this to reduce nose and to improve cooling.

I wasn't able to find a thread with this subject on this form, although there are a lot of threads on water cooling.

Thanks for your response;

Tom McLean
On the Wet Coast.

[David M]

Do you mean a stress crack at one or more of the cpu heatsink mounting holes?...or damage to the CPU mount?

Do you have a picture you could post?

[Thomas L. McLean]

Damage to the socket pins that contact the post on the CPU. It looks like the pins were cut with a knife.

Tom McLean;
On The Wet Coast