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FRONTPAGE Overclockers.com Benching Party II: Philadelphia, PA - June 17-19, 2011
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woulda been nice to have some consolation for my dead 5850.
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What he said ^^^. Even though the 975 doesn't count. You killed that before the party.
Same here. I just came with dead parts.
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Pity
what happened?
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I assume something shorted, which doesn't totally make sense since conformal is non-conductive, but needless to say there is no longer video output and the fan just spins at 100% all the time.
Edit: Card doesn't even show up in device manager when installed as a secondary.
Edit: Card doesn't even show up in device manager when installed as a secondary.
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I have seen countless people think that conformal is the best form of insulation. I've also seen numerous times when people have moisture related issues when their boards are conformaled.
I'm not sure why that is, but I can't help but think that conformal doesn't create as good of a solid consistent seal from moisture as we might imagine. I think the problem comes from hoping a light conformal spray can be used, then RMA isn't a problem - I think the first priority with insulation has to be ensuring you don't get moisture where you don't want it.
Really though, this is just another chance for me to promote my vaseline fetish. If you have vaseline caked generously around anything you don't want wet, its hard to go wrong! (I might be wrong, but I've been under LN2 maybe a dozen times or so, and haven't killed anything other than that 980 at the party so far - that was volts tho)
I'm not sure why that is, but I can't help but think that conformal doesn't create as good of a solid consistent seal from moisture as we might imagine. I think the problem comes from hoping a light conformal spray can be used, then RMA isn't a problem - I think the first priority with insulation has to be ensuring you don't get moisture where you don't want it.
Really though, this is just another chance for me to promote my vaseline fetish. If you have vaseline caked generously around anything you don't want wet, its hard to go wrong! (I might be wrong, but I've been under LN2 maybe a dozen times or so, and haven't killed anything other than that 980 at the party so far - that was volts tho)
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That's why when I spray conformal I put a nice thicker-than-necessary coat on. Odds are greater that they will take an RMA with a thin coat vs. a thicker coat, but there isn't any guarantee about them accepting your RMA with any amount of conformal on it so might as well protect your card upfront, or go the liquid tape route so it's removable
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You know you shouldn't be RMA'ing stuff you ln2 anyway.....
I think I had less problems with eraser than conformal.
Nope. Its one of the "approved" methods.
I think I had less problems with eraser than conformal.
Nope. Its one of the "approved" methods.
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I'm not sure if this was directed towards me, but the reason I thought conformal would help my board is a) I've diced this card before and b) silicon conformal is non-conductive. If it were conductive, we wouldn't spray it on electronics. I'm not quite understanding what even happened to my card. There are no burnt sights or smells, and I doubt anything got shorted anyway because conformal covered all the traces. I made sure to put more than "a thin coat" on my card. Also, I'm 100% sure it was not moisture because the card died within 3 minutes of running. The pot hadn't even been pulled down yet. You show me a pot that can form moisture in less than three minutes at -5*C and I'll show you a card that died from moisture damage.
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Was the card vmodded? Did you have good contact with the pot?
