Directo contact heat pipe HSF have one serious disadvantage

[Rubycon]

E7400 wolfie normally has no problem at 4GHz but crashed under stress after box fell over. Pulled the Vendetta2 off and one of the pipes has a bulge in it! Contact is not good regardless of pressure now. Be warned - the pipes are VERY thin on the bottom where they are ground flat.

Idle temps - core 0 31C, core 1 41C! Load temps (before thermal shutdown) 78/79C. Before load was in the lower 50's. VCORE/VTT@ 1.35/1.35.

 

[TC91]

holy crap... were you using pushpins on it?

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: TC91
holy crap... were you using pushpins on it?

Yes stock mounting unfortunately. What a piece of junk!

 

[TidusZ]

Does your name have anything to do with the vnv nation song?

 

[SunnyD]

Why are you knocking your computer over silly?

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: Rubycon

Originally posted by: TC91
holy crap... were you using pushpins on it?

Yes stock mounting unfortunately. What a piece of junk!

The stress from g-forces when the rig contacted the floor was going to continue build until weakest component failed.

Be happy you had pushpins that popped first, the torque on your mobo had you used a backplate would have likely caused serious traceline fractures (creating a walking wounded mobo) at best, and at worst would have cracked the mobo.

I'm going to venture a guess here and assume your mobo replacement cost is higher than your HSF replacement cost, both of which are probably worth significantly less than your time if you had to spend days frustrated by debugging a walking wounded mobo.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Why are you knocking your computer over silly?

I live/work on a ship and she moves (sometimes a LOT!) and when I (foolishly) leave my boxes unlocked, this can happen!

Originally posted by: Idontcare

The stress from g-forces when the rig contacted the floor was going to continue build until weakest component failed.

Be happy you had pushpins that popped first, the torque on your mobo had you used a backplate would have likely caused serious traceline fractures (creating a walking wounded mobo) at best, and at worst would have cracked the mobo.

I'm going to venture a guess here and assume your mobo replacement cost is higher than your HSF replacement cost, both of which are probably worth significantly less than your time if you had to spend days frustrated by debugging a walking wounded mobo.

ALL of my bolt on's have survived with no damage to mobo/cpu. (well after the memory and cards get put back in their respective slots!)

Years ago Swiftech took their awesome MCX-462 on a thunderbird and threw the system out a second story window and the system was OK except for the trashed chassis! :laugh:

Those mounts did not even have a backplate - just screws and washer hardware.

Some chassis' are also modified (socket 771 ones are ready out of the box) so the heatsink is bolted through the board and right to the chassis.