Dremel Dream Machine!

G-Dubs said:
Why???
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guessing I exceeded the bandwidth so I have swapped to imageshack.

hopefully get time to swap some of the earlier build later this week or wait for my monthly reset ..

rjkoneill said:
excellent final result :)
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Muel said:
Looks epic pal, good work.
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Thanks both of you, glad u like it


Minor build update :

tried the RAM fans that come from corsair, they are all black once the red stickers are removed, and it's too much for the "look" :(

so I'm looking at buying the extra fins just in case and then either painting over, or stripping then painting the RAM heatsinks in white.

will post pics when I do something.

there's a few other adjustments I want to make as well ust to tidy stuff up and etc.

any suggestions from you guys appreciated
 
Thx again all,

so temps are good, I started with the RAM to OC.

set timings to 6-6-6-20 and 200mhz x 8.00
booted no probs and passed MEMTEST86+
into windows no probs, ran a gaming session of Metro 2033 on FULL settings
at 50 mins the screen started to artefact, horizontal lines of interference
so I can only presume the RAM as that is all I tested

Temps on CPU and GPU still well within tolerance (39 degrees CPU, 45 GPUs)

going to drop back to 1333 on the RAM and see if it replicates tonight
 
think i fried it ?

been getting random crashes in games all day,

cursed my luck a few times and re-installed drivers and did all the usual carp :confused:

still probs and it kept getting worse, total PC freeze after 10 seconds of FURMARK... "Hmmmm weird!" thought me..

checks my OC in BIOS etc.. all fine

reboots and takes a glance in the window and whaddaya think i finally see ?

that's right .. a goddamn river running through my rig ...Grrrrr

so anyways, grabs me camera...then tinks.."better turn off the lecky!" kills the power and starts draining and ripping it all apart ....

glad i put that drain line in !

anyway, this is the damage, it all dripped down a pipe and pooled onto the gpu pcb,

so, is it dead you think ? or can i just clean it up ...

how the hell do you clean this crap anyways ?

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Isopropyl Alcohol, good and pure stuff. That'll lift the residue and leave the electronics nice and clean.

You've lots of capacitors and resistors there. I can't see anything blown or damaged on the image. Capacitors tend to go pop in dramatic style and Resistors tend to blacken if overloaded. I suppose there are worse places for a leak to collect.

Did it go any further than that? Drip on the card below perhaps?

Give it a good clean with Isopropyl, let it dry out, fix the leak and try it out. You never know it might just work.
 
okay .. off to chemist tomorrow .. thanks

I've just stripped the block away and water was nearly at the GPU .. nothing near a capacitor tho as far as i can see .. it was still running in windows so hopefully not totally dead .. we'll see i guess..

gutted i didn't spot the leak tho, it's one of those plastic clamps on a barb on the top RAD.. I should have seen the drips, but nvm :)

and i crashed my Audi A3 today ! .. I'm just gonna hibernate for a while till my luck passes :p
 
Should be fine once cleared up. If it was gonna die it would have done so already while it was wet.

Like has already been said, IPA should shift it. The problem you have is PTNuke IS conductive (copper sulphate) but not in so much a way as it will have caused any permanent damage I don't think.

GL
 
Surgical spirit also contains castor oil apparently and some smelly stuff so wouldn't be 100% ideal. It's not a derivitive if IPA and uses methylated spirit as it's base alcohol.

Not sure if it's the sort of thing you'd want to be spreading on an expensive graphics card.

As a plus it'd smell nice though.
 
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