Fatboy on a 480

[MaadDaawg]

at least on mine, the plate on the FB doesn't completely cover the GPU, leaving something of a gap (between the GPU/BLOCK and the walls of the cards and pot).

I'm curious if you who have gone before me have used eraser to fill the gap, or have just wrapped it up real good with insulation to keep the air out??

I already built an eraser gutter all the way across the pcie opening to route any water away from the socket but ain't sure what the best way to go is.

Thoughts?

Your Insulation routine?

Thanks bros

[punx223]

just fill her with eraser... pack it in tight..... once card is in... cover slot and mold up to the card so that the eraser covering board/slot/card all become one piece so that there are no gaps water can collect in.

[GFDuke]

Yup i just fill it with eraser. Also be careful when tightening that pot up. Take a good look at the goldfingers and make sure you didn't warp it. It's easy to flex the card with that big gap. Some spacers might even have been a good idea.

1. Insulate the pot
2. eraser the front of the card
3. mount the pot
4. fill in all the gaps around the pot
5. flip it over on the pot side and eraser the back of the card. Do Not lift the card by grabbing the card with thee pot on it, always flip the card or move the card around by grabbing the pot not the card. The pot is really heavy and i can see aot of stress occurring there.
6. insulate the back of the card
7. insulate the front
8. i wrap it up with shop towels and tape them tight. They absorb a hugh amount of moisture.
9. i cut a slit in a shop towel flded in half and slide the goldfingers through it and then insert it in my prepped motherboard slot.

[MaadDaawg]

Thanks Bro, and I like the idea of some little spacers. Think I have some various lengths of plastic tubes that came with various components that I could size to fit. Glad to know I'm not the only one who thought erasering that gap up too :)

I did the card first, the the initial work on the pot (blue tape, armaflex tap) then I set the card onto it to see how everything looked - that's when I noticed the gap :eek:

I erasered the back of the card, then after I get the goldfingers (like that name ;) ) on I usually add a couple layers of frost king on the back.

And where would we be without shop towels :D

[GFDuke]

I like to eraser the back of the card after i get the pot on it. Screwing those little caps though the eraser is a bitch and i could never realy tell how tight i was. I am reconsidering covering up the memory on these cards though. And putting sinks on themSeeing we can only get around -55 with them im not sure that radiant cold is enough for it. Especially with a memory mod.

Shop Towels FTW!!!

[MaadDaawg]

I clear the eraser from the back holes, screw down the golden guys, then eraser over them before I put down the frost king.

I bought some low profile sinks that might fit on the back side (the three to the left of the pot) unless the additional insulation gets in the way, as it is now, they'll fit. The five on the right (front) will easily take low or hi profile sinks.

I was a little worried that the sinks to the left would be so close to the pot that they might get too cold ?? Almost def will put sinks on the 5 towards the front. :D

btw - sick looking rig you got there bro :)

[Hondacity]

nice pixies :D

[Patch]

Dyamm, that's a lot of shop towel action. I just line some up at the base around the PCIE slot.

I agree with not covering the memory. When I benched this with a slim, my memory OC went way down and I suspect it was from having memory insulated when the pot was only at -55. That's not cold enough to travel through the PCB to the memory, methinks.

Nice pics, man.

[Hondacity]

using an infrared thermometer...gpu pot at -60c ram was still positive temps..

**oops ddr3 is hot LOL

[MaadDaawg]

I WC my chipset too Dukey, but I got the full coverage EK block so only two ports .. makes it a little easier to fit around the pots :)

[V2-V3]

Get a big fan and have it blow directly on the bulk of the card, will keep ice down, paper towels "bounty kind" will be absorbing any liquid, use lots of kneaded eraser and puddy up the PCIe slots like 3 lanes away from the GPU

[Dentlord]

I put a layer of armaflex tape around the core to seal to the card and fill in the gap.

[GFDuke]

I WC my chipset too Dukey, but I got the full coverage EK block so only two ports .. makes it a little easier to fit around the pots :)

Yea thats my Classified setup. I'm not on water cooling with the R3E. I don't think they have a block for it yet. I will get one though when they do.

[MaadDaawg]

Get a big fan and have it blow directly on the bulk of the card, will keep ice down, paper towels "bounty kind" will be absorbing any liquid, use lots of kneaded eraser and puddy up the PCIe slots like 3 lanes away from the GPU

I use a couple of big Delta's, does a great job :)