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- Dec 27, 2008
Well with all this talk on one recent thread about going naked after a haswell delidding I just had to try it. Unfortunately, it dozed my 4790k into the bone yard. Not complaining as I knew there was a reasonable chance this could happen and I went into it with eyes open.
I don't know exactly what went wrong as there is no sign of physical damage to the chip. I coated the resisters with a clear lacquer top coat clear nail polish so I don't think it was due to any stray Liquid Ultra. I do know that my custom do it yourself from the hardware store water block mount left something to be desired with regard to getting a level mount on the chip surface. When I removed the block it was apparent that it had not made any contact along one side of the die. So I'm guessing that may have been enough to fry the thing immediately as when I power it up it tried to boot several times but would shut off quickly.
I did come away from this realizing that the mounting hardware must provide precisely even support on all sides of the die. This becomes much more critical when the lid is removed since the lid insures that any imbalances in pressure from the water block are mitigated. If I were to do this again I would take a lot of time and pains to make sure the mount was perfect.
The other thing I would do if I had to do it over again was practice with a much less expensive chip.
So, I had to drag out my G3258 as a replacement for the time being. And speaking of that, I'm going to start a thread about overclocking that chip. Kind of fun, really and has been pretty challenging as the one I got, well let's just say to describe it as not winning the silicone lottery would be an understatement.
I don't know exactly what went wrong as there is no sign of physical damage to the chip. I coated the resisters with a clear lacquer top coat clear nail polish so I don't think it was due to any stray Liquid Ultra. I do know that my custom do it yourself from the hardware store water block mount left something to be desired with regard to getting a level mount on the chip surface. When I removed the block it was apparent that it had not made any contact along one side of the die. So I'm guessing that may have been enough to fry the thing immediately as when I power it up it tried to boot several times but would shut off quickly.
I did come away from this realizing that the mounting hardware must provide precisely even support on all sides of the die. This becomes much more critical when the lid is removed since the lid insures that any imbalances in pressure from the water block are mitigated. If I were to do this again I would take a lot of time and pains to make sure the mount was perfect.
The other thing I would do if I had to do it over again was practice with a much less expensive chip.
So, I had to drag out my G3258 as a replacement for the time being. And speaking of that, I'm going to start a thread about overclocking that chip. Kind of fun, really and has been pretty challenging as the one I got, well let's just say to describe it as not winning the silicone lottery would be an understatement.