Mickey: Smelly oil on AM5 CPU contacts - 7800x3d SATA stutters and PCIe crashes

Friend's Gigabyte B650+7800X3D started stuttering and locking up out of the blue yesterday. Been troubleshooting it, and eventually drilled down to reseating core components.

When I pulled the CPU to re-seat it, I found some kind of slightly-fishy smelling residue on the contacts.



At first I thought it was discoloration from corrosion/overheating, but it wiped off (and...

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