MrWizard6600
Supreme [H]ardness
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Hey gents,
I've been meaning to get into liquid cooling for a long time, so a couple years ago I bought one of the old asetek liquid cooling loops on clearance. I've been purchasing my way out of catastrophe ever since, and I'm starting to lose hope.
I'll let you read all about my first clusterfuck here.
My newest is that I bought a super nice EK 6970 block for my soft-modded 6950. I thought the reference boards were the same. They are not. There was a single cap that was interfering with my attempts to mount the block, so I took off said cap and soldered on a new one. I've never done that before with electronics this sensitive, but I had somebody who used to be a repair agent for Sony take off my cap, and it wasn't much trouble getting another one back on. The cap was 16V 140uF, but I couldn't find one at that rating, and my Sony guy said that it was just voltage regulation so a 16V 220uF cap would work just fine.
I'm also a little afraid that I've damaged surface components by mounting the water block on too tightly. From what I have, EK didn't supply me with any spacers, so I just ran the screws straight through the board and into the block. What I noticed was that I was actually deforming the board slightly by doing so (I didn't hulk this thing, and I didn't apply what I'd call an uncomfortable amount of force when screwing the board to the block, so I cant imagine I did too much damage). So having screwed these things on too tightly, I loosened them up a little bit.
Anyways, the card now gives me a black screen.
Furthermore, I had a 9800GTX+ that I was using as a stand in to get everything lined up. I spilled a single drop of my cooling fluid on it while it was running. It doesn't post either.
Any suggestions?
I'll post pics if anybody thinks they'll help.
Thanks for reading,
-Geoff
I've been meaning to get into liquid cooling for a long time, so a couple years ago I bought one of the old asetek liquid cooling loops on clearance. I've been purchasing my way out of catastrophe ever since, and I'm starting to lose hope.
I'll let you read all about my first clusterfuck here.
My newest is that I bought a super nice EK 6970 block for my soft-modded 6950. I thought the reference boards were the same. They are not. There was a single cap that was interfering with my attempts to mount the block, so I took off said cap and soldered on a new one. I've never done that before with electronics this sensitive, but I had somebody who used to be a repair agent for Sony take off my cap, and it wasn't much trouble getting another one back on. The cap was 16V 140uF, but I couldn't find one at that rating, and my Sony guy said that it was just voltage regulation so a 16V 220uF cap would work just fine.
I'm also a little afraid that I've damaged surface components by mounting the water block on too tightly. From what I have, EK didn't supply me with any spacers, so I just ran the screws straight through the board and into the block. What I noticed was that I was actually deforming the board slightly by doing so (I didn't hulk this thing, and I didn't apply what I'd call an uncomfortable amount of force when screwing the board to the block, so I cant imagine I did too much damage). So having screwed these things on too tightly, I loosened them up a little bit.
Anyways, the card now gives me a black screen.
Furthermore, I had a 9800GTX+ that I was using as a stand in to get everything lined up. I spilled a single drop of my cooling fluid on it while it was running. It doesn't post either.
Any suggestions?
- Was my Sony guy full of shit? Should I try to find a 140uF cap and replace the 220 one I put on?
- Was the damage caused by me over torquing the screws? Should I bake my card? Anybody have a guide to do that?
I'll post pics if anybody thinks they'll help.
Thanks for reading,
-Geoff