never to late i actually put everything on the bp6 this weekend, but that design of that guys was a pain to replicate and didnt work as well as he had hopes
my answer to this problem is pretty pisspoor, and i have yet to test it as my radiator seams to still have a leak, i will do a trip to the hardware shop today and hopefully will be finished this weekend
g0fvt wrote:When I said I did exactly what you shouldn't do with Arctic Silver... I meant I used it to attach my watercoolers to the cpus...
I went a step further with ASE3...
I epoxied the northbridge on my vp6...then ripped it off months later by accident..
I think I posted on hardocp with pics..
So what is the conclusion here - Artic Silver Epoxy caused shorting around the CPU? Or, it caused mechanical stress leading to toasted CPU? Or what exactly?
RRLedford wrote:So what is the conclusion here - Artic Silver Epoxy caused shorting around the CPU? Or, it caused mechanical stress leading to toasted CPU? Or what exactly?
The conclusion is to not epoxy anything to the chipsets!
RR: When he tried to remove the water block, the chip came with it
That VP is a bit sad looking! Sorry sight to see! For what it is worth I used arctic siler epoxy in my watercooled and peltiered BP6....
When epoxy is cold it is reasonably brittle, I seperated the coolers, peltiers and cpus with a sharp knife! I still plan to transfer all the watercooling components to my VP6 but will probably not resort to peltiers again. Currently the BP6 is at a slow 525Mhz but it is relaible and reasonably quiet.......