- Joined
- Sep 9, 2002
- Location
- under the floorboards
Today was the worst day of overclocking (or not), EVER.
What happened:
Friday afternoon: My venice and dfi board arrive from new egg
A good time was had by all.
Sunday evening: I finnaly got the time to put my system togeather. I hooked up the wc system and started leak testing around 9pm. Everything is looking good.
Today: I return from work and joyusly discover that the mailman has left me the x800xl I ordered from ninjazx6r (thanks ninja). The final peice of the system was in place- it was time to let-er rip. So, pop in the card, boot to bios. Everythings looking good, but I had to go somewhere so I couldnt do much more. That was the last time my poor system ran
I made a fatal mistake (one of many tonight). I left the pump running. It didnt seem like a big deal since it had been running leak free for 24hours and it was the same system I had been running for almost a year.
I came back- the pump was running dry Almost 1L of water was gone. It didnt take too long to figure out what had happened. The worst possible thing: the center hose on the block popped out. Might has well have taken a garden hose to the computer Water was EVERYWHERE. On the ram, the vid card (in a huge pool), my sound card, all over the mobo. I run to get a hair dryer and start praying.
2 hours of drying later, everything seems bone dry and I start working up the courage to see if it runs. I tested the ram in my brothers computer (it worked !)- about the only thing im sure still does. I get it all assembled on my desk with the stock hsf.
Push the power- WHOOSH. A huge arcing spark flys up from the vid card. Its over. I paitiently waited 6 months to get this vid card, now its literally fried.
Status now: I cant do much. I dont have another pci express vid card or pci vid card. Maybe the board is ok, but I think not. The only thing I have any hope for is the cpu. If thats the case, I will probably have to sell it.
Hopefully I can find a friend with a pci vid card to test the remaining parts. Good vibes needed!
Im sorry ninja, I wish I could have treated your card better
Let this be a lesson. HOSE CLAMPS. I was lazy and took 24 hour testing to be enough. Maybe they wont stop leaks, but at least clamps will prevent this from happening to you.
What happened:
Friday afternoon: My venice and dfi board arrive from new egg
A good time was had by all.
Sunday evening: I finnaly got the time to put my system togeather. I hooked up the wc system and started leak testing around 9pm. Everything is looking good.
Today: I return from work and joyusly discover that the mailman has left me the x800xl I ordered from ninjazx6r (thanks ninja). The final peice of the system was in place- it was time to let-er rip. So, pop in the card, boot to bios. Everythings looking good, but I had to go somewhere so I couldnt do much more. That was the last time my poor system ran
I made a fatal mistake (one of many tonight). I left the pump running. It didnt seem like a big deal since it had been running leak free for 24hours and it was the same system I had been running for almost a year.
I came back- the pump was running dry
Almost 1L of water was gone. It didnt take too long to figure out what had happened. The worst possible thing: the center hose on the block popped out. Might has well have taken a garden hose to the computer Water was EVERYWHERE. On the ram, the vid card (in a huge pool), my sound card, all over the mobo. I run to get a hair dryer and start praying. 2 hours of drying later, everything seems bone dry and I start working up the courage to see if it runs. I tested the ram in my brothers computer (it worked !)- about the only thing im sure still does. I get it all assembled on my desk with the stock hsf.
Push the power- WHOOSH. A huge arcing spark flys up from the vid card. Its over. I paitiently waited 6 months to get this vid card, now its literally fried.
Status now: I cant do much. I dont have another pci express vid card or pci vid card. Maybe the board is ok, but I think not. The only thing I have any hope for is the cpu. If thats the case, I will probably have to sell it.
Hopefully I can find a friend with a pci vid card to test the remaining parts. Good vibes needed!
Im sorry ninja, I wish I could have treated your card better
Let this be a lesson. HOSE CLAMPS. I was lazy and took 24 hour testing to be enough. Maybe they wont stop leaks, but at least clamps will prevent this from happening to you.
