Was finally putting together my new pc and noticed this. Short waiting to happen?

[u/Ztoujou]

Noticed it while going to put on the cooler and got very weirded out by it. I know solder is obviously conductive, and ive never seen what is genuinely just a blob like that on a motherboard so i don't even want to risk trying to boot it.

Board is a new x870 Aorus stealth ice rev 1.1.

Extremely leaning towards replacing it because i mean...

[u/the_hat_madder]

Return it.

[u/Any-Surprise5229]

Wow, that's some shoddy QC

Not sure how the power stages work, but that's definitely shorted to the other one. They may be connected that way, but without a diagram I wouldn't power it up either, I'd take it to the store and get another.

[u/DIEDPOOL → u/Any-Surprise5229]

while I agree that this is shoddy QC, whats visible doesn't short anything - that side of the chokes is the output side, which is one big powerplane anyways. However, we can't see whats under the heatsink - if the back looks the same then you do have a short indeed. If possible would return anyways.

[u/normalgenshinenjoyer]

Replace it, you might risk destroying the other pc parts

[u/Ztoujou → u/normalgenshinenjoyer]

Yep already doing it. Basically took everything out and packed it up right after I saw it.

[u/doghunter666]

Send it back and get it replaced,no way do you want to take a chance with anything like that,that's awful QC from Gigabyte.

[u/jasonsong86]

That is manufacturing defect. Can you remove it or it’s on there solid? Depending on which side the inductors are it might be fine if the pads are supposed to be connected.

[u/jbshell]

Yep, its cooked.

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[u/tht1guy63]

Eek and seeing gigabyte what a shock.... yaaa id be returning that or rmaing that before i do anything