Changed to VaporChill Today

[Duckstar]

Hi there, i am a bit new here but i think i have loads to learn since i am now offically entering the underground overclocking scene.

Today i recieved my brand new VaporChill EX2 (or something along those lines). I am not sure if any of you are thinking about buying these or interested in how they work. I have a few handy tips incase you got one on its way

-You could hear the back of my car scraping along the ground when moving the case in my boot it was that heavy.

-Its lovely rock hard metal (i am not geologist)

-All the parts for connecting to the processor are mainly the foam, which has to be cut down a little to make the perfect fit, so get your carving knife out ready.

- If you take the top part of the case off where the freezer unit it, you will feel the hairs on the back of your neck go up from the fear of its complexity.

-When you cover the processor in thermal paste *NON CONDUCTIVE* do not put too much on the pin side, because you will find its the biggest pain in the *** you push the processor in. Then you will do what i did, tried to get it in by pushing to hard, tried to unbend pins and managed to pull a pin out...*****..*

-You will get the thermal paste everywhere... i mean ****ing everywhere i got it in my hair all on my t-shirt, all over my jeans and all over the desk.

Well thats my tips, i am yet to actually boot the thing up, as i am stuck without a working processor(can you soldier the pins back on .... ? )

I have a few questions though that stick boogle me...

-Where do i put the chip that comes with it ? It connects to a 4 Pin power cable ( the one that goes in an optical drive), a black lead and the heat detectors.. Do i have to mount it somewhere ? I see no mount holes anywhere....

-Does the paste dry up ? Since i wont be recieving my new processor anytime soon, will it be a pain in the *** trying to get it in the motherboard socket with all 939 pins full up with the paste ?

-Are SLI Motherboards ment to have the bridge chip come with them ? or does it come with the graphics card ?. Where can i get one ? for a DFI LanParty Board ?

Thanks in advance for the questions being answered

[Urbanfox]

Um.... your not supposed to put thermal paste on the pin side. Do you mean dialestric grease?

And what thermal paste did you use that got everywhere? Again, you mean dialectric grease? That's not thermal paste.

[Duckstar]

Its called : heat conduction compound

thats off of Asetek Website anyway.

the instructions tell you to put it on the pin side aswell as the motherboard socket. If you havn't put any on, i think the pins get corrosion over a long period of time...

[(sin)morpheus]

To answer the first question, yes cpus can be repaired. Try asking a jeweler with access to a weilding laser if they'll do it for you. If not, there is a site (can't remember the link right now, someone else post it) where you send in your cpu and the pin and they repair it for $30 or something.

Second question, no the stuff won't dry out. There's a grease why it's refered to as a grease.

Third, the bridge isn't a chip, it's just a connecting board. I'm guessing your motherboard is a DFI ultra-D, in which case it's not SLI capable by default. OEM bridges can be bought, but you'd have to mod the chipset on your board before you could use SLI. Also, the mod isn't guaranteed to work on all boards.

[Duckstar]

It definately is SLI compatible. I has jumpers to set SLI Dual Card On and Off.

It seems that i brought one board and recieved another .... since the one i brought had SLI in the title.... I have ordered the SLI chip from my local PC dealer (well awaiting a price). If the price is silly money i will look on the internet for cheaper

Thanks for answering the question about the CPU. Will the jewelers beable to reattach the pin ? or make a completely new one ? Since it was so small it kinda fell out in my hand in an instant...

Thanks

[suisuicide]

you might have a little troubel if you cant find the piece that fell off

[(sin)morpheus]

You'd have to ask the jeweler that, but if they have the laser wielder, they can definetly wield pins back on. After all, they work on things much smaller than a pin.

Just to note, the DFI ultra-D has SLI jumpers too, but not an SLI capable chipset.

[Duckstar]

Originally Posted by suisuicide

you might have a little troubel if you cant find the piece that fell off

Ok, in a nutshell. I dont have the pin... after staring at the underside of a processor for about 4 hours your eyes start to go funny

Aslong as the MB does work with SLI i should be fine, just need that bridge

[gsteinb88]

Another repair option for the broken pin is to drop a piece of speaker wire in the hole where the pin was, and see if it works.
-g

[Urbanfox]

Originally Posted by Duckstar

Its called : heat conduction compound

thats off of Asetek Website anyway.

the instructions tell you to put it on the pin side aswell as the motherboard socket. If you havn't put any on, i think the pins get corrosion over a long period of time...

That's dialectic grease.