Folding@Home News 26th November - 3rd December 2010

Well i slept on the train on the way in, had a snooze at luchtime and will probably nod off and miss my stop on this train going home :o

still had to be done :D
 
Well I'm extremely annoyed to put it lightly (and without the use of any swearies). I decided it would be a good idea to swap the thermal paste on my i7 as I had to shut down the system to swap out a GTX260 for a GTX460. I found this IC24 stuff hard to get out of the tube, managed to get some on the caps near the CPU socket after it wouldn't stop coming out. :rolleyes:

Had to remove the CPU to clean it and the socket, once done I noticed that two of the CPU socket pins were bent. I have no idea how it happened as I'm extremely careful but it has and as you can imagine I wasn't best pleased. I even had the socket protector on for most of the time, so it either happened when the CPU was removed or when the protector went on. Thankfully I had another UD5 spare from when I thought my UD3R was faulty. So what started out as a 10 minute job took nearly an hour to remove the motherboard, swap everything over and get the system running again. Still got to re-do the overclock but at least that it one minor victory.

I've not tested the motherboard yet but knowing my luck it is toast. So I've effectively thrown £90 down the drain! :mad:

Off to watch some Criminal Minds to err help calm me down! Not the end of the world I know but something of my own making and something I could have easily done without.
 
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