some sort of fire need some major help.

Capicators and my ram slots little square chip things bigger square things which i assume are capicators too. Lots of important things it looks like. Just hope its not damaged any other of my parts.
 
pic? very possible its mosfets, which are power things (if ive got the name right, could easily be wrong) for your RAM, that would explain how it was burning (over volting/spiking/failing) Whats your PSU? do you get other power oddities in your hose etc?
 
RMA the mobo asap. That's a mobo waiting to die, if not dead already. It should definitely be covered by warrantee, since it's a faulty component that went kaput.

May have damaged your rams as well. You wont know until you test them. Hopefully the CPU is OK.

If you bought it at OcUK, contact their support directly. They may replace the whole thing (CPU + mobo + RAM).
 
Thanks for the help guys, no power odditys that i know of. I had the ram running at 1.5volts. When i unplug the power calbe my mbo resets to default values and i have to reinput settings in bios i wonder if that has anything to do with it. i will contact ocuk now see what they say.
 
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RMA the mobo asap. That's a mobo waiting to die, if not dead already. It should definitely be covered by warrantee, since it's a faulty component that went kaput.
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I'm not saying the OP shouldn't try and RMA the motherboard but it's unlikely that a faulty component just happened to blow at the same time he fitted the new CPU cooler.
 
Possibly got some thermal paste on the motherboard when changing the heatsink ??
Your other components should be fine however.
 
Thats the exact location thanks for that surveyor.

Messaged ocuk i am at there mercy.

I thought i might have got some thermal compound some where but i couldnt see any anywhere.

Heres what i did step by step.

I took my old intel stock cooler off was easy enough

I took the back off my case and fitted the back plate to the mobo.

I then cleaned the cpu area with the artic clean stuff. Made sure it was dry and nice and clean

I fitted the mouting bracket to the back plate.

I put the thermal paste on my cpu i used the x method.

I then fitted the heat sync to the bracket and tightend with the mini spanner thing that came with the cooler

I checked the cooler was mounted then pluged the fan into the cpu fan header.

Pluged pc back in reconnected keyboard mouse and so on, powerd up. Sniff sniff wtf is that smell checked the side of my comp i saw smoke coming from the top of my mobo near the ram area. tried to power off using the power button nothing happend so i turned it of by the psu and came on here for help after i had clamed down :P
 
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Does seem like the fan has overloaded something or something on the board has been shorted out - I would definitely RMA the board.

Looking at the pic of the damage and the pictures of the board - The damage seems to have been caused by one of the MOSFETS (likely the one on the left in the red circle in the photo that Surveyor posted) - I'm getting this from the area that seems to have the most burn damage which is right below the MOSFET.
 
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Yeah the worse of the damage is under one of the mosfets, its taken the finsh off the mobo. Is the on closes to the ram and motherboard power socket.

What are the chances its damaged the rest of my parts kinda worried about that.
 
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Really depends what happened - It could have caused some sort of surge - RMA the board and take it from there. Large components such as drives and graphics cards should be okay but I'm a tad worried about the RAM as the MOSFET being close to the ram indicates that it could have something to do with the RAM's power. Most likely though, the blown MOSFET will have killed power to whatever component it drives rather than overloading it.
 
Well a month or 2 before this happend i was close to rmaing the board in the first place, I had 2 issues with it one being the ethernet port and the other was it stoped booting from cold and wouldnt remeber my bios settings. I had to put the ram in the other sockets and update my bios it was fine after that though.

I should have returned it then when i had the chance .
 
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