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- Apr 15, 2007
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- Toronto, ON
I think I killed one or both yesterday.
In an attempt to lower temps and push for higher clocks, I decided to make some changes to my setup.
-I felt I applied too much tim when I recently installed my h110, so I cleaned both surfaces with Isopropyl Alcohol and reapplied using a pea sized blob in the center of the cpu
-Also my top 7970 was over heating @ 1150/1600 @ 1.2v, so I decided to add a 120mm fan between the 200mm front intake and the cards, blowing through the middle of the 2 cards to help push some cooler air between the cards and allow the top card to breathe better.
Thats it.
Booted it up, launched Tomb Raider with cards @ 1150/1600 @ 1.21v and just walked around a bit and watched temps on cards.
Success! Top card was holding steady @ 78c after 20-30 mins.
Prior, everything froze after 5-10 mins.
Coming off my victory over the GPUs, I decided to prime and test my cpu temps after my newly applied tim. Also thought a good heat run would help cure it.
10 mins in, everything looked great, temps seemed a few degrees lower right off the bat, temps were very slowly climbing from 50c when I heard a zap and everything shut off instantly.
When I try to power it back on, nothing. No fans, no lights, nothing.
I opened it up and felt the VRM sinks... crazy hot, burn my finger hot.
left it for 10 mins, came back... nothing
I swapped the power supply with my backup rig and removed one of the 7970s... nothing.
I also swapped this power supply into the backup rig and it powers on.
So power supply seems to be fine.
After pulling the bios battery for an hour and unplugging everything except for video card and h110, I get lights and the h110 powers up but no post.
So the question is, is the mobo dead or the CPU, or both?
I suppose I could throw that X3 on the board and see if it'll post.
Or just use this as an excuse to go Haswell in the next few weeks!
In an attempt to lower temps and push for higher clocks, I decided to make some changes to my setup.
-I felt I applied too much tim when I recently installed my h110, so I cleaned both surfaces with Isopropyl Alcohol and reapplied using a pea sized blob in the center of the cpu
-Also my top 7970 was over heating @ 1150/1600 @ 1.2v, so I decided to add a 120mm fan between the 200mm front intake and the cards, blowing through the middle of the 2 cards to help push some cooler air between the cards and allow the top card to breathe better.
Thats it.
Booted it up, launched Tomb Raider with cards @ 1150/1600 @ 1.21v and just walked around a bit and watched temps on cards.
Success! Top card was holding steady @ 78c after 20-30 mins.
Prior, everything froze after 5-10 mins.
Coming off my victory over the GPUs, I decided to prime and test my cpu temps after my newly applied tim. Also thought a good heat run would help cure it.
10 mins in, everything looked great, temps seemed a few degrees lower right off the bat, temps were very slowly climbing from 50c when I heard a zap and everything shut off instantly.
When I try to power it back on, nothing. No fans, no lights, nothing.
I opened it up and felt the VRM sinks... crazy hot, burn my finger hot.
left it for 10 mins, came back... nothing
I swapped the power supply with my backup rig and removed one of the 7970s... nothing.
I also swapped this power supply into the backup rig and it powers on.
So power supply seems to be fine.
After pulling the bios battery for an hour and unplugging everything except for video card and h110, I get lights and the h110 powers up but no post.
So the question is, is the mobo dead or the CPU, or both?
I suppose I could throw that X3 on the board and see if it'll post.
Or just use this as an excuse to go Haswell in the next few weeks!
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