Apologies for another long hiatus .. the missus has been melting my credit cards on QVC
The smell of melted plastic had the neighbours calling the fire brigade !!
So, now that I finally got my own pocket money allowance I bought new tubes and some Phobya 1mm thermal pads and some more arctic silver 5 (no idea if this is still as good as it was a year ago?)
Anyway, I made myself very popular last week .
Her indoors went out for a works party (local do, few glasses of wine and a curry etc.)
So, I thought ... I'll have at least a few hours "ALONE TIME!" to do what I need to do
so I grabbed all me gear from the garage and started ripping the poor PC apart ..
I'd just finished dismantling and had the entire kitchen worktops, floor, doorway and even the new Oak table we recently acquired that "I Promised on my life to NEVER use for modding my PC! ... honest darling ... NEV .. ERRR !" completely covered in thermal pads and man goo (AS-5) .. that she walked back in the door 3 hours early
Damn stress headache from the bastages she works with !!
Well needless to say I was ******' popular for that.. She storms off upstairs and I have to rush job clean and pack my **** away.
Well, once I'd recovered from this major set back I set to stripping and re-applying the water blocks to the three shiny clean GPU, I even re-seated the CPU ..
Remember that Bear that **** on the CPU last time ? well his cousin came along apparently and he'd been knocking back the Ex-LAX ! .. Jeeeeezuz .. there was goo Everywhere !
anyway, long story short .. 3 days later it's all back together and working fine !
then, friday night happened ...
it's about 10.45 pm ... I'm sat staring at the download bar .. 50% of 10 Gig of Pr0n...
actually it was crysis 2 ... but same difference..
the DL timer keep jumping up to 3days 17 hours to completion as her indoors fires up another you-tube video of how to make christmas cards and wot-not. and I glare up through the ceiling in frustration !
As I sit there contemplating .. I glance in the handy clear perspex window and spot ...
Yup
You guessed it
A flipping drip of water from the top RAD dripping down a toob and lands on the northbridge heatsink ... then splashes onto the top GPU ..
Only one splash though ...
So Now the Dilemma ... do I kill the power and lose the download OR attempt to catch further splashes with kitchen paper until DL complete ??
I go for the latter and quickly mop up, then leave a clean sheet as drop catcher .. which works. thank god
in fact it works so well, I get to install and play till 2 am when my good lady comes down to remind me of her presence and that she has boobs .. DAMN HER !
the PC gets turned off till next day when I can fix her up .. them plastic clips are RUBBISH !!
Should have used compression fittings but never mind now ... all is fixed.
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Today I ordered 8GB Vengeance to replace the 4GB dominators.
Crysis 2 takes about 10 minutes to load textures and levels from an SSD
anyone want to buy some Dommies ?
I'll take a piccy tonight and update more soon .. I'm not going to replace the pumps or the res.
after the yearly maintenance everything seems to be working A-OK
Peace out
Sounds like there is a problem there, and while it can seems to be on when reseating, I bet there is something wrong that is causing it to constantly drop out.
