GTX285 Insulation by Team Hawaiian Havoc

[Kal-EL]

Supes had Rogue210 over for a noobfest gpu getto insulation endeavor yesterday/today to try and compete in the single card category of the OCA2009LCC. I'll let the photos tell a story but I gotta tell yah, we're having a blast "breaking" in the card for DICE sub-zero runs, lmao.

http://www.overclockaholics.com/Kal/GTX285_Insultation_hiRES/100_2574_x2.jpg


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Great Work Rogue210!!!!! :good: cool2 :thumbsup:

[Buckeye]

Theres the pic's !!!

I spoke to soon on the other thread. :)

Great job on the insulation you two !!!!

I like that eraser all over the back, good job !

I use blue painters tape and cover the pot with it. Then 2 layers of Armaflex tape insulation. That stuff is very sticky and hard to get off. But the blue painters tape makes it pretty easy to remove the Armaflex and it comes out very clean.

[punx223]

:taunt: look at soups gorilla CLAWS he calls hand next to rogues :taunt:

http://www.overclockaholics.com/Kal/GTX285_Insultation_hiRES/100_2589.JPG

[Kal-EL]

Theres the pic's !!!

I spoke to soon on the other thread. :)

Great job on the insulation you two !!!!

I like that eraser all over the back, good job !

I use blue painters tape and cover the pot with it. Then 2 layers of Armaflex tape insulation. That stuff is very sticky and hard to get off. But the blue painters tape makes it pretty easy to remove the Armaflex and it comes out very clean.

OOOhoOOHOhhh great tip Buckeye! Thx, we're just noobin it up and problem solving on our own right now but all tips welcome :D

[Kal-EL]

:taunt: look at soups gorilla CLAWS he calls hand next to rogues :taunt:



Hehe, you should talk, Lurch! :blush:

[Kal-EL]

Installed the questionable GTX285+insulation. Rampage Extreme+E8600

Well, now I don't know wtf's going on, fired up the system, everything worked fine, no video corruption nuttin. Went into the bios, changed a few settings, hit save and reboot, she never rebooted. No pops, crackles or anthing.

Power down, reset the cosmos and now she goes on for a hairs ass of a second and shuts down by itself. Switched out GPU's, same thing. Switched out psu's same thing. Switched bios jumpers, same thing.

In the process of switching cpu's now.

Anybody got any ideas, suggestions, prescriptions or declaration of death certificates??????

[Buckeye]

Sent message in MSN.

[punx223]

check cpu pins

what cooling on cpu?? pot?

[Kal-EL]

check cpu pins

I'll double check but they looked fine when I switched cpus.


Switched cpus, same action ont eh board, no change.

pullin the battery now.

[punx223]

I'll double check but they looked fine when I switched cpus.


Switched cpus, same action ont eh board, no change.

pullin the battery now.

try it with no cooler attatched to cpu

[Buckeye]

Inside scoop from Rogue...

It was Kal who did it, he was pushing her, making her hurry and rush, telling her to do this and that !

[Kal-EL]

I take full credit for permitting Rogue to kill close to $1000 in hardware in two days time, a record for most noobs, she sets the bar for this forum. :rofl:rofl:rofl

[punx223]

Inside scoop from Rogue...

It was Kal who did it, he was pushing her, making her hurry and rush, telling her to do this and that !

big suprise... :p hes prolly rushing or should i say hes always rushing

[Kal-EL]

big suprise... :p hes prolly rushing or should i say hes always rushing

Woa woa, I'm all pro man, double checked everything. If I had to rule things out, I'd have to go with the components on the gpu that were fubarred, re-soldered and damaged sending enough of a back jolt thru the pci-e slot and destroying the mobo.

Time to put the Classified on the rack :D

[punx223]

Woa woa, I'm all pro man, double checked everything. If I had to rule things out, I'd have to go with the components on the gpu that were fubarred, re-soldered and damaged sending enough of a back jolt thru the pci-e slot and destroying the mobo.

Time to put the Classified on the rack :D



oh im sure its hurting your feelings to mount the classified.

wait did that sound wrong?

[Rogue210]

:blush: I would love to blame Kal but i take full blame...a little to rough w/the gpu and then it went all to hell from there. Leave it to a girl to fubar a good hardware....ohcrap

[punx223]

:blush: I would love to blame Kal but i take full blame...a little to rough w/the gpu and then it went all to hell from there. Leave it to a girl to fubar a good hardware....ohcrap

ouch.... i still would blame the big gorilla... its easier.... hell i blame him for killing my 4870's and hes never seen them.... it just makes me feel better that its not my fault :rofl

[Neuromancer]

Yah I blame Supes and Vivi for having me kill a vid card in search of 800MHz core, and almost killed my rig.

Nice handiwork, except for hte dead hardware.


Leave it sit and try it again tomorrow :) Worked for my setup lol

(Also dunno if it is limited to ASUS, but put one stick of ram in the 4th slot, boot shut down put ram in first slot and reboot sometimes works even when ClrCmos does not...)

[HITandRUN]

Installed the questionable GTX285+insulation. Rampage Extreme+E8600

Well, now I don't know wtf's going on, fired up the system, everything worked fine, no video corruption nuttin. Went into the bios, changed a few settings, hit save and reboot, she never rebooted. No pops, crackles or anthing.

Power down, reset the cosmos and now she goes on for a hairs ass of a second and shuts down by itself. Switched out GPU's, same thing. Switched out psu's same thing. Switched bios jumpers, same thing.

In the process of switching cpu's now.

Anybody got any ideas, suggestions, prescriptions or declaration of death certificates??????


Yeah the Rampage board is sweet when it behaves. BTW: Great job on the insulation!

[DrNip]

When that happens to me usually it is due to my CPU cooler being on stupid or CPU needing remounted. I just take it off, reset the CPU and then remount. For some reason on my 790 I could only put the CPU cooler on in the direction of the fans blowing across the GPU's. If I was to put it on with the direction of the fans blowing across the mosfets, it would do like you are describing.

[Kal-EL]

Well, tried all that is good to revive the board, its a no-go. Had to call it a day and get some rest for tonights workshift.

This should be the blam soups thread :thumbdown: :rofl

[HITandRUN]

Well, tried all that is good to revive the board, its a no-go. Had to call it a day and get some rest for tonights workshift.

This should be the blam soups thread :thumbdown: :rofl

This sucks! Looks like a RMA case to me! :morpheus:

[DrNip]

Well that sucks. Kinda reminds me of when I tried taking my DFI sub zero for the 1st times. Had her all prepped for it, DICE in the pot, pushed the power button just for it to turn on then turn right back off. Did this for about a hour until I finally gave up. Sucked a big fat one.