I didn't douse the 6600GT because, well, I kinda need that card to keep working (didn't want to risk it)... the motherboards, on the other hand, were purchased specifically for this video.
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You're extremely pressed for time, but you're making videos of yourself dumping coolant on motherboards while running 3dmark!
That's why I love this board.
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I would love to do that for a living. Not the run a shop for needy WC folks...but you know..throw water on electrical crap. Anything that has a chance of buring is pretty fun IMO :)
lolz andy, at least some of us really experienced the actual mobo soaked nightmare... and you're still lucky that it still booted properly after cleanup... some guys don't have that luck...
Sooo you just killed 2 motherboards.....:rolleyes::cool:
Next time just ship them to me and i will spire your time :yepp::rofl: :p:
J/K
hehe good test man but i still don’t dare to drop any coolant on my mobo unless its cooking veggie oil but then again that well just deep fry it with out the right cooling :p:
no matter how non conductive that fluid is.
That doesnt mean the dust on your videocard, or even the dust in the air, or the dust being pushed into your system by fans wont make the water conductive once it touches it.
To be honest i only take non conductive when building. After a few months when your system has collected dust on it, once water hits it, it wont stay non conductive.
regardless, its great to see another video from you alex. I keep getting suprised when i see you. You seriously dont look anything like you represent.
To be honest, i was expecting someone a bit more like Dave (movieman) in appearance. :rofl:
My brothers computer sprung a leak of water and the hydrix shistuff.
It got soaked pretty good. And it was on at the time.
I resoaked it with 70% alcohol(didnt have any 90%).
Threw a fan on it for a while and it came back to life. :)
Hm, so lesson learned... drenching the motherboard is fine but drenching the GPU and RAM slots should be avoided? :p:
That was a riot, was cracking up when the second motherboard started back up to try and finish that test. Thanks for the rather unique vid. ;)
That was pretty fun to watch...
We'll have to have a fun with random liquids and motherboards game to see what does the least (or most) damage.
I'm taking bets people! :hehe:
I spilled water on my 8800GTS card 2 or 3 times, each time I disconnect the cpu WB (I'm stupid but whatever :shrug:) and after some soaking with a towel then some blast with compressed air then restart after 10 mins. It ran fine and it still run right now :up:
I use distilled water with pt-nuke only and this is what save my day ;)
No my brother goes to stanford. I tend to visit him once a year to help him move and help him cosign. :T
Next time i go up there, i told him i need to stop by san jose. :rolleyes:
Gonna see if i can offer lunch and try to get to know him better. :up:
The funniest thing tho, my brother has a h2o rig and he has no idea how to maintain it. I told him if anything was to go wrong, if he didnt have ANYONE he could goto, theres a shop in San Jose, that could help him. :T
As of right now, I can say that the CPU, RAM, and video card are all working fine...
The two motherboards, on the other hand, are both dead. The board that was drenched with distilled gives a second of fan spin or so and then dies while the other board does nothing at all when you hit the power button.
Perhaps I should use a little less coolant next time? :rolleyes::D
Anyway, let this be a lesson to all of you: don't pour coolants on your motherboard.
:(
Now the question is, what to do with the two dead boards?
My vote goes to sending both to the manufacturer of the coolant, along with the half used bottle, asking for a refund.
Sweet video Petra. :D
Half bottle? I hardly used two fingers worth of the stuff! The distilled, on the other hand... I used quite a bit of that. http://forums.petrastech.com/images/...set5/devil.gif
That's awesome!
You are the man!...I very much appreciate your work and sharing the TRUTH!
Wow, very interesting! Thanks for manning up and pouring coolant over those Abits :)
I laughed when the board drenched with distilled actually unfroze and started working again, right before something popped and it shut down. Distilled water FTW :D
Seems that when the water hit the ram slots/24 pin connector is when it gave up.
I laughed when the computer started the test again, after Alex doused it with distilled water.