And how do you clean the socket? eg when you want to sell the board.Quote:
Originally Posted by ^don.k's^
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And how do you clean the socket? eg when you want to sell the board.Quote:
Originally Posted by ^don.k's^
When i have to clean it, i will care of it, if i cant, i will sell it as no warranty board. But with compressed air i think you can. First heat up the vaselin so it gets liquid and then air removes it from the socket. I hope practise go as well as theory. :p:
Regards! :toast:
thanks don you reconfirm that i do need dielectric grease in the socket :)
I used dielectric grease with my Vapo and Intel XBX board on the whole of the cpu without any problems.
I've also returned at least two boards, one to intel and one to Asus that had obviously had dielectric grease in them without any problems. If you feel you have to clean it I would use CRC electric parts cleaner.
You're far from the only to get corrosion on LGA775. This is always how I roll nowadays. :p:
http://www.ocforums.com/attachment.p...1&d=1156634386
Vaseline is a good alternative to dielectric grease. A lot cheaper too.
For cleaning dieletric grease, any electronic contact cleaner will work.
im giong to be getting phase soon, but im worried about being able to return the board to a sellable state need that be the case.
so now i know you can get the vaseline out of the socket easy enough (good thing you can use vaseline too, i was worried about looking for then paying for dielectric grease)
but what about like the foam around the socket
dont most glue that down? that would not be easy to get up...
and so where most people put dielectric grease a bit around the foam too, that just sits out? like you oculd reach in the case and get your hand all mucky just from touching it? i guess iw ouldnt MIND, its just not what i expected
Dielectric grease isnt that hard to find. I didnt know till this last week that you could find it at the average auto parts store. I was worried about the exact same thing as you(i just got phase last week). I bought the p5b deluxe and i wasnt so sure if it was a keeper and didnt want to muck it all up with grease in the socket. I just didnt try it.Quote:
Originally Posted by AndrewZorn
I dont think i'd put any board under phase unless i was sure i was going to keep it. The "foam" around the socket is neoprene or armaflex with an adhesive backing. You can peel it up after you set it down. I tested this on the back of the mobo before putting it around the socket. Its not as hard as it seems if you take all the right precautions. i freaked out myself a little but found it to be pretty straight foward. I used 1 layer of acrylic conformal coating, 2 layers of neoprene, and filled the socket with a lot of dielectric grease. So much so that i was worried it wouldnt boot. The board works just fine though.
Can anyone give me an answer to this please?Quote:
Originally Posted by jimmyz
Can someone tell me what I'm supposed to use to trim down the points on the back of the motherboard to stop them going through to the Vapo backing plate?
Surely you don't sand them down do you? That would be nearly impossible without making contact with the PCB and damaging it?
Wire cutters?
when you peel the stuff off, does it leave residue?Quote:
Originally Posted by MrDeeds
to clarify on the keepsies...
i dont ever plan on keeping ANY board i buy. i resell everythign eventually. something like this board should probably last me a year or so id hope, unless an insanely better baord comes out for a price i could afford solely off selling the current one.
ive heard about coating the parts in fingernail polish first, then attaching sticky stuff, so when you take it off you can use fingernail polish remover... ?
I also had similar corrosion problems using mine 6700 with the Prometeia.After 14 days of usage mine cpu looks as yours but its mine mistake since i didnt used as seal string as i should and the socket was "air wide" LOL at least CPU and motherboard work fine.I have used mine Opteron 170 for almost 8 months under the Prommie with no dielectric grease and i didnt noticed any corrosion but the 939 socket is easier to insulate than the LGA775..........
There is a little residue just like with any adhesive but thats easily taken off with some alcohol. The fingernail polish would be the same job as the acrylic conformal coating i used and should come of easily with alcohol or nail polish remover.Quote:
Originally Posted by AndrewZorn
Luberex is cool :D
http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/lubdiellub.html
I once spent 5 hours cleaning DFI NF4 of Luberex using acetone/toothbrush and I don't wanna see it again :D But I guess that is the only way to be safe. One day DI session is fine without it, short term (1-2 days) SS is fine as well (thanks vapochill has heaters) but for example benching video card under DI is pain without luberex. I always run into condensation problems. Long term SS, luberex or similar is a must actually
Some people I know clean it using Fairy :D Chech this out for some fun :)
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ad.php?t=81984
But I haven't found a good way to clean it, always something remains :slapass:
Omg did i need a laugh. This dude is a genius.Quote:
Originally Posted by kiwi
We should all clean dielectric grease out of our socket like this. :slap:
http://bildez.lv/bildes/someonesick/...1133490865.jpg
Well that's one way of killing your board :)
Hope he left it to dry for a long time afterwards. :p
Actually that board still works just fine :)
So has anyone had problems uh GETTING THEIR CPU OUT OF THE SOCKET? I used vaseline with my conroe on dice and it's now stuck in the socket. No grease for me next time. Plus my entire board is a mess now.
Use a hair dryer to clean the Vaseline. It will melt when heat is applied.
Maybe you used too much vaseline... Just get a bit with the finger, spread it carefully under the cpu, over the socket, and cover the center of the socket with more vaseline, you wont have problems ( i hadnt yet ). :)Quote:
Originally Posted by afireinside
Ok, I filled my P5W64 socket with plenty of dialetric grease (the white stuff you get with Vapochills) on the pins, the centre and the back of the CPU and my system wouldn't boot. Fans would spin, but there was no beep from the speaker. Tried it several times but it didn't boot once.
I tried removing what grease was on the back of the CPU and tried again but it still wouldn't boot.
Fearing the worst I assumed I had broken my board somehow, but after spending about 2 hours cleaning the grease out of the socket with isopropyl alcohol I stuck it under air cooling and it booted first time. :confused:
I'm also slightly worried that the small brush/bit of card I was using to apply the grease might've bent a pin or something, though I can't see anything obvious now its all cleaned up.
What am I doing wrong?
If there is too much dielectric grease in the socket, all the CPU's contact pads may not be making good contact with the socket pins. Also make sure the evaporator head is not putting any pressure on the surrounding caps or voltage regulators.
I know the evap head wasn't compressing anything, I can only guess that there was too much grease in the socket and even with the clamp down the CPU wasnt making contact with all of the pins :(
What do you suggest I do? Tempted to run it without grease as I have the Vapochill heaters on the board, but this thread worries me.
If I cant run it at all WITH grease, what am I supposed to do? :(
I ran my Vapochill last night without grease in the socket. Everything worked fine. Many of the top Japanese benchers do not use grease in the socket. In my case, I'm running the Vapochill for just a couple of days. After that, it's back to air. I'll use a hair dryer to remove any moisture that might be in the socket.
Hello again!
Well, I applied some grease all over the back of the CPU, and in the centre bit of the socket but I didn't put any on the pins this time. Hopefully the amount I put on the CPU should be enough to seal it.
Other good news is that the P5W64-WS Pro supports negative temperatures in the BIOS...
http://www.superficial.net/miscstuff...apols_bios.jpg
JingTing cooler on my Southbridge dropped my mobo temperatures by about 10 degrees :)