UD5 insultation tips ?
 

Prepping my UD5 for some dice action this week, planning on doing 2 GPU's + CPU on dice :ohcrap:.

This is what i have so far:

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/9591/p1010696l.jpg

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Hey bro, looks tight. No condensation should get thru there. I've been seeing discussion about the eraser being having two effects on the board. One positive, one negative. One it does insulate against condensation, two it conducts heat (low temps spread thru the eraser) making the entire board very cold. Speculation is that it effects the dimm slots after a while (being too cold).

Its a bit of a cannudrum tho because, people run dice pots on the mem dimms so I'm not completely sold on the (Spreading cold idea). Just food for thought should you encounter cold bug issues.

i guess i could use a hairdryer to heat up the eraser then if i do get too cold, and the back side i added some eraser were the PCIE slots are.

As for the gpu how would i go on prepping that ?
Should i just put eraser on the whole card ?

Lot of people use vasoline on the cards. Easy do/easy clean-up. I doubt your ramsinks would take much abuse prodding around with erasure.

I doubt you will have any problems with DICE as I never have. LN2 now, that's a different story.

I have been thinking of Conformal Coating and just forgetting eraser and all that stuff.

http://www.alliedelec.com/search/pro...px?SKU=6610076

Next time install the CPU first ;) then put the eraser all the way to the top. Its a pain after get everything all nice and completed to have to pull back the eraser to put a CPU in, you get good at that after awhile tho. swapping or remounting CPU's :)

On the edge of the GPU cards I smear a little Vasoline incase anything drips down into the PCIe socket.

Looks great tho !

vaseline will work,

but do not be fooled.... it IS NOT an easy clean up.... expect alot of time involved in getting it off well enough if rma is needed.


If applied properly the eraser will do everything you need.:thumbsup:

Snug up some papertowel around the base of the gpu after installing, it'll catch whatever drips happen to fall.

Also, if you are running long cards, make sure to lay papertowel across that battery area too.

I would put Vaseline but like Punx said it wont be easy to clean out. I would be benching for a few hours, so if its needed i will.

Whats a good way of removing the Vaseline from the PCI slots ?

*EDIT
Ill be using the 5770's, will need help once i get those apart to add heat sinks to the important parts

I wouldn't put the vasoline in there, Vince was saying how they get wierd after a while. Anywhere on the mobo but in the slots, he says. Papertowel will do fine. Once you go cold, stay cold on the GPU, don't let her approach room temp till you're done cuz that when the most condensation occurs. Other than that she'll stay frozen. Same with the CPU, keep her as cold as possible till you are done. Don't goof off and come back to sweating pots.