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first time installing gpu block, shorted. help!

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cbgoding

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I just installed a pair of swiftech mcw60s and unisinks on a pair of 6970s. Sparks flew out of the top one when I turned it on. Ive been water cooling cpus for a couple years, but this is my first foray into gpu cooling. Any ideas on what I did wrong and tips on not doing it again?

I should have pictures of the disassembled parts tomorrow.

10 bucks says the Pcb bent a tiny bit and caused a short on the unisink.

Swiftech is telling me the backplate standoffs weren't the right length, so too much mounting force was used. Gonna make myself a new backplate, but I'll post carnage pics tomorrow.
 
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i need pictures to see what happened.

but im fairly sure unless the sink was faulty or u really overtighten them and warped your pcb, there is no way u could of gotten sparks to fly.
 
Definitely warped the pcb. It was visibly bent, I dunno why I didn't notice it when I was plugging it into the mobo. Anyways, pic of something above my vreg that got torched:

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On the bright side: only one card got fried.

Also, the whole reason I have these 6970's: I got blackout drunk a couple weeks back, and woke up the next day with 4 emails from ebay. All for placing bids on 6970's. No idea what I was thinking. I won all my bids though. So, at least I have spares.

Don't ebay while intoxicated, kids.

Also, if anybody knows what I fried and where I can get another to solder on, hit me up. Otherwise I'm mounting this as the first piece on my wall of shame.
 
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I really know how to have a good time when I drink. :/

I'm gonna plug it into an old core2duo tower and see what happens. If it fires up I will be the happiest man alive. If it doesn't, then hey, more free fireworks.

Keaborg your sig is wrong. Shouldn't it say "custom garden hose loop?"
 
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cbgoding said:
I really know how to have a good time when I drink. :/

I'm gonna plug it into an old core2duo tower and see what happens. If it fires up I will be the happiest man alive. If it doesn't, then hey, more free fireworks.

Keaborg your sig is wrong. Shouldn't it say "custom garden hose loop?"
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All of my crap still works 😉
 
KeaBorg said:
All of my crap still works 😉
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Whatever, home depot homeboy.

God mode, an undamaged card doesn't have burn marks. Or oozing capacitors.


Rest of my pc still works, but I need to remount my cpu because temps are through the roof under load.
 
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