You are not just looking for water, you are looking for burnt and missing components as well.
Good thing for rma though. Might as well just pack it up and call it a day as you stated. Good thing it was only dry ice and not ln2. That would have been a big waste of money there.
 
 

Man, THIS has sure been a Busy 2 Days for Me!
 
As I stated in the previous post, Before I went ahead and did an RMA on my ASUS RIV BE Motherboard, I borrowed an ASUS P9X79 LE X79 to Test my original i7-4930K CPU to see if maybe it was the CPU that Failed and gave me the Error Code "00" and Not the MB.
 
Yesterday I set up the P9X79 with a single GTX 480, 16GB Ram and installed the Old CPU, Turn the System on and..................Nothing!, Just like my RIV BE!
 
Then I removed the Old CPU and tried my friends 3930K CPU and it Booted right up into the Desktop!
 
Apparently, It was My Original 4930K that FAILED and NOT the ASUS RIV BE MB, So I called Intel for an Advanced RMA for an overnight replacement 4930K which I received this morning, tried it first in the P9X79 MB and it Booted right up, So I removed it from that MB and installed it in My RIV BE, Also installing all four KPE's in 4-Way SLI again, But THIS Time running Only Chilled Water Cooling on the New CPU and Graphics Cards, and................Away We Go, Booted right up into the Desktop and the System is Now running just like it was before!.....Yah! The ASUS survived the INTEL Failure!
 
What have I learned about the Moral of this Story?......Not Much, I'm Still as Crazy as I ever was.
 
Evidently (At Least with MY Old 4930K), Even though I was running High OC's with Cooling Temperatures between -30C to -62C in the last few months of Benching/Testing, This CPU Didn't Like being run at 1.6v Vcore for any Extended period of Time, and Just Gave it Up , Although I will tell you this is the First INTEL CPU I have had Fail in Many Years of OC'ing.
 
So Now I'll be Running Just Chilled Water Cooling on this System while more than likely preparing to sell the RIV BE and the New 4930K like I was talking about Before this little "00" episode occurred, in preparation for moving on to an X99 System (When They are Released).
 
 
 
 

There's always something broken it seems like lol. (Not specifically with your system, just in general)

I Received the RIV BE back from ASUS Yesterday, Installed the New 4930K, Memory, KPE's again for One last Time to Check Everything for proper operation after which I Disassembled everything and Immediately found a Buyer that bought the Motherboard and CPU Last Night and Now I'll be waiting for the X99 MB's and CPU's to be released so I can re-install the Four KPE's I'm Keeping!

 
I Still have a set of the 16GB and 32GB G-Skill Trident X DDR3 2666 Memory, and That should be All of the X79 Components Left I will need to Sell.
 
In the Meantime, I'll be busy catching up on some new and older games using my EVGA E759/3-Way GTX 680 Classified System and watching for Component Release Dates.  

Yeah, I was glad that Both INTEL and ASUS replaced everything under warranty, Plus I also just sold the 32GB G-Skill modules this past weekend.  

nateman_doo
What are you replacing the ram with?

 
Since the X99 Motherboards are going to require 288-Pin DDR4 Memory Modules, The 240-Pin DDR3 G-Skill ram won't work with an X99 Platform.
 
I also still have another set of 16GB (4 x 4GB) G-Skill Trident X 2666MHz that I need to sell as I am continuing prepare for the next new build.
 
 

Q56_Monster
Just checking in.  Maybe drop 6k on 2 TitanZ's.....Maybe NOT!  Come on now, ridiculous!

LOL, The last Dual-GPU card I tried before going to the KPE's was a used EVGA GTX 690 that cost $600 (and No Good Comment comes to Mind about that experience).
 
My Days of using Dual-GPU cards for Benching have long gone away since my old Quad EVGA GTX 295's setup.
 
Maybe the GTX Titan-Z would find a practical Niche for itself at HALF the asking price (similar to a Radeon R9-295X) if you could ever find one that is selling that low.

I know I will have my hands full when that X99 comes out.

that maybe, but I am sure many others will also make stuff for this board.  I don't have the resources or the time to compete with them.

Looking forward to seeing you next rig Get Colder......

Just found and ordered an INTEL 5960X, Now Just have to figure out which Motherboard to Choose!
 
 

Yikes, what did that set you back? I just bought a hex core a few weeks ago and it already feels obsolete now

nateman_doo
Yikes, what did that set you back? I just bought a hex core a few weeks ago and it already feels obsolete now

Well, I'll just say that the 16GB of Corsair Dominator Platinum costs me Half as much as the 5960X did!
 
Thankfully, Since I am still going to use My four KPE's I won't have to invest another Multi-Thousand $$$$ for any New Graphics Cards/Water Blocks for the Time Being until I see what the GTX 880 Series can do when they are released.
 

My vote would be for Gigabyte UD7 variant if they make one (or whatever they call their X99 OC board if they make one), or for the ROG Rampage board.

 IMO, the Gigabyte X79 offerings sucked the worst for overclocking. I suppose that is why the "if they make one" is mentioned and repeated.