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Wish me luck on my first attempt at watercooling a GPU

Well, given up for the evening to watch some TV.
All installed but after switching on there is no signal to to the monitor. Just hope I haven't over tightened the cooler & crushed the core! Lol!
 
Finger tight, always finger tight :) If you had to put pressure on enough to turn skin white, then you've over done it.
 
Looks like I have overtightened the screws :rolleyes:

Stripped it all down cleaned off TIM & applied new in case the old was shorting something out, tried again & no joy, but running on intel graphics & all ok.
Looks like a new card for me. :(
 
kylew_is_back said:
Before you throw the card away, try the oven trick.
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That works for problems with the solder if it's degraded or cracked due to time/heat cycles. It won't assist at all with a crushed core, unfortunately. :(

OP - fingers crossed that it works with the original cooler reattached and that the card isn't actually dead.
 
Confused Stu said:
That works for problems with the solder if it's degraded or cracked due to time/heat cycles. It won't assist at all with a crushed core, unfortunately. :(

OP - fingers crossed that it works with the original cooler reattached and that the card isn't actually dead.
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Tried with the original cooler fitted & plugged in & I got a garblled screen for a few seconds then nothing.
Think I killed the card. :(
 
Confused Stu said:
That works for problems with the solder if it's degraded or cracked due to time/heat cycles. It won't assist at all with a crushed core, unfortunately. :(

OP - fingers crossed that it works with the original cooler reattached and that the card isn't actually dead.
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I know but he have nothing to lose, maybe the core is fine after all.
 
Agree, oven trick, you could have just snapped some solder points to one of many chips. The oven will allow the solder to heat up enough that they melt back into place.
 
Got a replacement on the way to have a second attempt at fitting WC.
Will try the oven thing however, as there's nothing to lose.
 
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