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Sub zero doesnt like my board
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No condensation/frost on the dimm slots and no vaseline on the ram! i tried multiple sticks of ram in all matter of slots as i thought it was the ram to start of with.By the time i eventually gave up i had frost on the hold down and on the top of the pot and thats it, there was a slight bit of moisture on the kitchen roll but nothing touching anything.Later tonight when ive finished with this board i may put the pot back on the gigabyte with loads of insulation as the errors it was coming up with were just daft, "updating to ec firware, flashing bios,rewriting bios" stuff that normaly just doesnt happen on its own, and ive had this board for ages so ive probably seen just about every crash it offers , but not these scary ones
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Is there any benefit from running in the first dimm, nearest the pot, as once i mount the pot on this board with all the insulation on it, it makes it a tight fit to run the first dimm and its touching the insulation which i dont like the idea of.I will only be running one stick if that makes any difference
I can never use the first slot, either. on Amd I usually fill the first two slots with vaseline. Then use the third and fourth slot. If running one stick you can run it in the third. Make sure that 3 and four will work for dual channel, but i Am pretty sure that is how most amd boards work.
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Well the msi was a lot more co-operative than the giga but still I think I could have done better, managed to get a couple of decent wprime scores done on the x5 Should be worth a few points but I was hitting a wall at 5.1ghz to bench on and the vdroop was rediculous 1.75 in bios was getting 1.68 on cpuz, if the dice lasts I will get another session in over the weekend, wp1024 took me a good few hours to get done and in the end I just ran it at a speed I knew was pretty lame but I was starting to lose my cool and wanting to break things when it gets to 90% and bsod
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I am actually with you there hokie, theres a couple of problems with art eraser that are not immediately apparent. Its density causes more cold to spread away from the socket area and effect more components on the board rather than staying to the cpu and socket.
If you have temperature sensitive components like the vrm controller chips, which on some boards are in close proximity to the socket, this will cause a problem. I've seen this on several motherboards when running ln2. They will freak out from -30c to -90c. I have also had a board or to that the ram phases got frosted over and to around -50c and would fail to boot from there (not very common on dice though).
You might want to try in the future having your fans blow away from the board so that heat is being sucked over the surface of the board and not being blasted with the cold exaust downdraft from the pot. I have used towls in the past aswell, for ducting to prevent cold air from hitting other parts of the board.
If you have temperature sensitive components like the vrm controller chips, which on some boards are in close proximity to the socket, this will cause a problem. I've seen this on several motherboards when running ln2. They will freak out from -30c to -90c. I have also had a board or to that the ram phases got frosted over and to around -50c and would fail to boot from there (not very common on dice though).
You might want to try in the future having your fans blow away from the board so that heat is being sucked over the surface of the board and not being blasted with the cold exaust downdraft from the pot. I have used towls in the past aswell, for ducting to prevent cold air from hitting other parts of the board.
I put my fans blowing from the side. I also don't put a solid area of eraser. On amd there is some open areas aroung the socket that have no components. I do not put any eraser in those areas, in order to help prevent the heat/cold transfer.
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That's what I do too, just cover the shiny stuff.
Mostly these days I use paper towel bits instead anyway.
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Going to do that this afternoon as my last session the first 2 ram slots got pretty frosty by the end of the night, but no major frost anywhere else except on the pot itself. I think I'm addicted to extreme benching now!!!! Looking for a dewar as of now
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Attempt 2 of the giga and 145,modifications are: only eraser on the shiny bits "different eraser also" vaseline in the cpu socket, vaseline in first 2 dimms, back only insulated on shiny bits. Im going to use foam as well to try and keep the cold out and place a few fans blowing across the board and not down onto it, if this doesnt make the board work then **** it, its going the distance
Sorry about the crappy image quality, but im just taking them with my phone and uploading them, it saves on getting the camera and leads
Sorry about the crappy image quality, but im just taking them with my phone and uploading them, it saves on getting the camera and leads
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- #38
I flattened it all out after taking the pic.Would you cover the mossfets with eraser
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Was having trouble booting and so I decided to swap drives incase I trashed the os and noticed my sata socket was a bit wobbly! Next thing "oops" it's in my hand, so I tried the rest and there also busted (won't boot into xp) so luckily this board has a IDE connection so I thought I may aswel try it and BAM boots up no probs, result,
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