a mixed experience: first watercooling on a duallie.

[Biggerhammer]

The patient: MSI K7D Master-L with two painted XP2000s.
The operation: add my homecooled system (DD Maze-3, Spir@l, Via Aqua 1300, Chevelle heatercore, 2 gallon fishtank)
The result: K7D doesn't have quite enough room around the CPUs for the Spir@l. I whipped out the handy dremel and carved away part of a heatsink. Unfortunately, I carved away part of the primary CPU as well. So, I have watercooling running on the remaining CPU. I'm delighted with the silence. The sudden halving of my computing power is less delightful.

I'll try to post pix later- right now I'm too irritated with myself to drag out the camera.

 

[Lash444]

??? You carved away part of the CPU? What in the world were you doing, shaving it when it was still in the socket?

 

[huesmann]

He had a fit of temporary insanity. Or more like temporary stupidity.

 

[Biggerhammer]

No guarantee that it was temporary, guys I was wicked impatient and figured that the tape I had over it would protect it. I'll be smarter with my next CPU.

 

[WarCon]

Originally posted by: Biggerhammer
No guarantee that it was temporary, guys I was wicked impatient and figured that the tape I had over it would protect it. I'll be smarter with my next CPU.

I could actually feel the wheel cutting through the CPU like it was my hand.........

Another thing that you really, really need to consider here is that you was cutting metal (metal flakes and metal shavings) right over a motherboard? You should feel fortunate that it is still running at all. All it will take is a single flake of metal to bridge two important contacts on say your voltage controller and you will see sparks and watch as your mobo (if not everything connect to it) goes up in flames.

Patience will save you many dollars in this hobby......

 

[Biggerhammer]

The whole MB was taped off and covered- nothing showing. I hit it with a shopvac anyway. No problems from metal debris, just from a loose nut with a Dremel.