Project: Rad In Mi Kitchen

Okay that's good to know. It was an absolute PITA to get in, but it looks like I'm going to have to take it out again, but then again, if I bleed th system on 5, how will I change it back to a lower setting?
 
I don't think I've screwed it in, but it's in pretty tight, so I'd have to put extra long tubing when wiring it up so that I can safely pull it out to change the fan speed. Should be okay though, I might change it to 3 for general use anyway
 
Fermi pr0n!!

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Well it's been an absolute DISASTER trying to install the 480 waterblock. People on here were making it sound easy. I was nervous about the thermal pads, and they turned out to be a horrid job. Mostly because EK says that they supply more than enough thermal pads than are needed for the job, yet I ended up using all of them :confused:

Not only that, it said to use the 1.5mm pads on the mosfets, yet all the pads were the same bloody size! So I ended up using 1mm pads on the mosfets. The backplate won't install either because the screw holes don't even line up with the screw holes on the card!

Then the EK instructions are goddam awful, it says to remove the block to check the contact is perfect. **** that, I'm not taking it apart and putting it back on again!

Somehow, I feel as if I've just spent money on pc that will royally FAIL, and I'm going to be standing there looking like an *******
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neo-omega said:
Did you remove the backplate of the graphics card? If so, why?
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The card didn't come with a backplate
 
I'm not sure what to do now.

1.Risk the mosfets not having good contact
2.Getting some more thermal pads
3.Getting a new waterblock and installing that

2 and 3 involve dissembling the card, which is going to be a biatch to put back on.

madindehead said:
You're fine then :) Like I said, it could be worse. Have you managed to get the waterblock fitted then? I miss read for a minute, and thought you were having problems with the waterblock screws.
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Yeah, I suppose I could return the back plate :(
 
Thanks.

The other problem is that unless I get it sorted soon, I'm going away in a week and won't be back until 24th september, and then I'm going away on the 26th until 16th october. So this project is ****ed unless I get loads done this week :(
 
rjkoneill said:
totally should have just let me do it for you :rolleyes::p

if you need more thermal pads, then trust message me and i will pop some in the post.
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Thanks a lot mate, it's really appreciated :)

NathWraith said:
Seems like USS: Your boy will be complete before yours after all
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I know ;)

Yours will be a lot better than mine obviously. The last time I was actually messing with PC's, it was with DDR, and I think geforce 3/4 was the new thing on the block. So technically, I'm still a noob at this :p
 
Yeah, it's an absolute beauty in real life. :D


Due to things such as the GPU problems, and advice from several people, I'll be taking it really slowly. I doubt it will be finished for a while.
 
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