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Project is on hold till end of February
Successfully killed my graphics card, bugga...
Had a red message on screen that the power is not connected to the card which assumed to be over-tightened screws or a short.
After disassemble and when i wanted to remove the block one of the chip broke off due to the TIM i added on the chip and it was the chip which did not have the stepping.
I made a mistake, a costly one and i was quite upset.
Two thing I have noticed:
1. I should not put ANY TIM between the chips and the thermal pads, that stuff (Arctic MX 4) is sticking too much on it an Chips are prone to break like i just experienced (even though the manual states to make the pads more adhesive add small amount of TIM, I think this is not to recommend and would refrain from such thing.
2. My mistake I did I thought to add one more 0.55mm pad on the chip which was leveled and did not have a higher step then the other chips, mistake though because after inspecting the block I could see that the entire row of the chips next to it did not hav contact, assuming I should not have added the second pad...
3. Really make sure and double check after screwing the block on to unscrew it and check contact (as in the manual described correctly)
4. looks like over-tightened screws as well on the named chip which would be caused easily if there is one layer of pad too much :-(
good thing, i use a spare older 9800GT now and the CPU temps by 27 C are excellent with 31C max idle ;-)
will tweak the CPU now and OC it stable, then rethinking the loop as at current it won't fill up properly and can't bleed it either properly.
Will move the res/pump to the top and take out the HDD, need to make sort of a platform there in the next two weeks
whats more, not sure how if i want to water cool the new graphics card anymore, i am a bit worried but if i should not use any second thermal pad on named chip and no TIM on all the chips with thermal pads than it should basically work, can't be that difficult, can it?
stay tuned, cheers
Successfully killed my graphics card, bugga...
Had a red message on screen that the power is not connected to the card which assumed to be over-tightened screws or a short.
After disassemble and when i wanted to remove the block one of the chip broke off due to the TIM i added on the chip and it was the chip which did not have the stepping.
I made a mistake, a costly one and i was quite upset.
Two thing I have noticed:
1. I should not put ANY TIM between the chips and the thermal pads, that stuff (Arctic MX 4) is sticking too much on it an Chips are prone to break like i just experienced (even though the manual states to make the pads more adhesive add small amount of TIM, I think this is not to recommend and would refrain from such thing.
2. My mistake I did I thought to add one more 0.55mm pad on the chip which was leveled and did not have a higher step then the other chips, mistake though because after inspecting the block I could see that the entire row of the chips next to it did not hav contact, assuming I should not have added the second pad...
3. Really make sure and double check after screwing the block on to unscrew it and check contact (as in the manual described correctly)
4. looks like over-tightened screws as well on the named chip which would be caused easily if there is one layer of pad too much :-(
good thing, i use a spare older 9800GT now and the CPU temps by 27 C are excellent with 31C max idle ;-)
will tweak the CPU now and OC it stable, then rethinking the loop as at current it won't fill up properly and can't bleed it either properly.
Will move the res/pump to the top and take out the HDD, need to make sort of a platform there in the next two weeks
whats more, not sure how if i want to water cool the new graphics card anymore, i am a bit worried but if i should not use any second thermal pad on named chip and no TIM on all the chips with thermal pads than it should basically work, can't be that difficult, can it?
stay tuned, cheers
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