TheMash
04-19-2010, 02:02 PM
Hello everybody :)
After rebuilding my watercooling rig I bought a second hand fullcover waterblock for this monster :)
The block its made by Ybris Cooling (italian), its full cover, copper + plexy, CNC machined.
The block its the following :
http://www.pctunerup.com/up/results/_201004/20100419204856_IMG_3177.jpg
Before mounting it on X2 the board was fine, both 2D and 3D.
Well, I decided to mount the full cover on the card.
I always discharged any eletrocstatic charges wearing non-syntetic clothes, touching the case with both hands.
Then I usually start to work on electronic, using the classic white latex gloves.
The block comes with no washers at all, and to avoid any problem, I didnt tight so much the screw.
After mounting it I turned on the system, with no liquid cooling at all, just to test the board was fine (it lasted about 1 minute, the board was still cool after that time).
And the problems began from here.
Artifacts since POST:
http://www.pctunerup.com/up/results/_201004/20100419194918_IMG_3180.jpg
http://www.pctunerup.com/up/results/_201004/20100419195010_IMG_3181.JPG
http://www.pctunerup.com/up/results/_201004/20100419195219_IMG_3182.JPG
So, I told to myself: maybe its bad contact in some areas.
Disassembled to check the contact:
http://www.pctunerup.com/up/results/_201004/20100419045337_IMG_3178.JPG
http://www.pctunerup.com/up/results/_201004/20100419045432_IMG_3179.JPG
Some power chips were not correctly cooled, like some memory modules, so I tought that was the problem.
I tightned slowly a bit more some screws in corrispondecy of that chips, with maximum care and not so much.
But I noticed the card was bending in visible way near the PCI-Express connector, in the first GPU (looking card from top, the GPU on the left) with two memory modules near.
Still same artifacts. Fear is inside my head.
So I came back to stock cooler,to check if the board its okay.
With stock cooler SAME arfifacts pattern. :(
I can go in Windows, and this is the situation:
http://www.pctunerup.com/up/results/_201004/20100419195059_IMG_3183.JPG
I get some random BSOD, and as soon as I go in 3D the pc lockups and reboot or show BSOD.
Bringing back to my old X1900XT show no issues at all, so the problem its the X2.
What's happened to my X2? :(
After rebuilding my watercooling rig I bought a second hand fullcover waterblock for this monster :)
The block its made by Ybris Cooling (italian), its full cover, copper + plexy, CNC machined.
The block its the following :
http://www.pctunerup.com/up/results/_201004/20100419204856_IMG_3177.jpg
Before mounting it on X2 the board was fine, both 2D and 3D.
Well, I decided to mount the full cover on the card.
I always discharged any eletrocstatic charges wearing non-syntetic clothes, touching the case with both hands.
Then I usually start to work on electronic, using the classic white latex gloves.
The block comes with no washers at all, and to avoid any problem, I didnt tight so much the screw.
After mounting it I turned on the system, with no liquid cooling at all, just to test the board was fine (it lasted about 1 minute, the board was still cool after that time).
And the problems began from here.
Artifacts since POST:
http://www.pctunerup.com/up/results/_201004/20100419194918_IMG_3180.jpg
http://www.pctunerup.com/up/results/_201004/20100419195010_IMG_3181.JPG
http://www.pctunerup.com/up/results/_201004/20100419195219_IMG_3182.JPG
So, I told to myself: maybe its bad contact in some areas.
Disassembled to check the contact:
http://www.pctunerup.com/up/results/_201004/20100419045337_IMG_3178.JPG
http://www.pctunerup.com/up/results/_201004/20100419045432_IMG_3179.JPG
Some power chips were not correctly cooled, like some memory modules, so I tought that was the problem.
I tightned slowly a bit more some screws in corrispondecy of that chips, with maximum care and not so much.
But I noticed the card was bending in visible way near the PCI-Express connector, in the first GPU (looking card from top, the GPU on the left) with two memory modules near.
Still same artifacts. Fear is inside my head.
So I came back to stock cooler,to check if the board its okay.
With stock cooler SAME arfifacts pattern. :(
I can go in Windows, and this is the situation:
http://www.pctunerup.com/up/results/_201004/20100419195059_IMG_3183.JPG
I get some random BSOD, and as soon as I go in 3D the pc lockups and reboot or show BSOD.
Bringing back to my old X1900XT show no issues at all, so the problem its the X2.
What's happened to my X2? :(