Disaster MSI GF4 4800SE is as hard as my head

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  1. MadSkunkBurner

    MadSkunkBurner What's a Dremel?

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    This thread may not really class as a disaster mod - but things always seem to go pretty smoothly on the moddin front for me.

    But I came as close I think as possible and I had to tell somebody, somewhere' what happened:D

    My CPU temp was running a bit high so I thought I would get a better heatsink. I went and bought, even though the weight of them scared me a little, a TT Volcano 11.

    Got home installed it fine - no problems.

    Or so I thought. :hehe:

    I finally finished messing about at around 2am (I am on late shift this week so late nights a must) and left my machine on. About 5 mins after I turned out the light I heard this hollow *thump*.

    Jumped out of bed quick as you like and ripped the side panel off my case. Sure enough - the clip had slipped off and the whole damn thing crashed down on my graphics card.

    When I brought this card I got it at a very good price but it was nothing on the Radeon I really wanted. Fair play to the MSI crew though - the massive heatsink that goes all the way round the card took the impact very nicely. Nice work fellas!:clap: :clap: :clap:
     
    MadSkunkBurner, 11 Apr 2003
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  2. xen0morph

    xen0morph Bargain wine connoisseur

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    Did your CPU fry without a heatsink on?
     
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  3. MadSkunkBurner

    MadSkunkBurner What's a Dremel?

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    Nope - as soon as I heard the *thud* I was out of bed and pulling out the power lead within about 4 seconds I reckon;)

    No probs since then either so it loks like that heatsink saved the day. :)
     
    MadSkunkBurner, 21 Apr 2003
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  4. dhutch

    dhutch Banned

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    woh u didnt fry ur cpu !!!!! wow and wow agin and wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wowand:eeek: :eeek: :eeek: :eeek: :eeek: :eeek: :eeek:

    and sorry for all the wow's but WOW
     
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  5. jetsetjimbo

    jetsetjimbo Up-up and away

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    How lucky ?! :eeek:
     
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  6. Giggz

    Giggz Minimodder

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    Very lucky lol
     
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  7. DeX

    DeX Mube Codder

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    My computer turns off if the CPU gets too hot. The first time I turned it on I had installed the heatsink incorrectly so that only half of the pad was touching the core. Still when I turned it on it only took 4 seconds to turn itself off again so the fact that yours lasted more than four seconds without any heatsink at all is very lucky indeed. And I always wondered what would happen to a graphics card if a heavy heatsink fell on it.
     
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  8. OtakuHawk

    OtakuHawk What's a Dremel?

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    wait, so give us the score,

    Survivors:
    Mobo & cpu.


    dead: Graphics card?
     
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  9. DeX

    DeX Mube Codder

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    Dead: Nothing :D

    The graphics card apparently has a heatsink on both sides of the card (though never seen this on a stock card) which must have protected the circuitry.
     
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  10. MadSkunkBurner

    MadSkunkBurner What's a Dremel?

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    dead: nothing is about right!

    The heatsink wrapped right the way the back ofthe card creating a heatsink/bulletproof shield :)

    So no casualities on this occasion whatsoever!

    Accept my broadband connection but thats another story altogether - hence the 2 month delay in my response to the last post;)
     
    MadSkunkBurner, 31 Jul 2003
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  11. Melov

    Melov What's a Dremel?

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    Lmao. That's great. :eeek:
     
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  12. ConKbot of Doom

    ConKbot of Doom What's a Dremel?

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    Was it a P4 or an AMD?
    You are ertremely lucky if it was an AMD, they I've heard that they would probably be fried before the heatsink hit the graphics card. (OK, maybe not that fast)
     
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  13. Gotero

    Gotero What's a Dremel?

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    P4's create heat alot faster than AMD's. the P4 3.2 is unbeatable for heat, followed closely by the 3.06 and then the barton 3200.
     
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  14. Murdoc

    Murdoc Gas Mask..ZOMG

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    i switched a 1ghz Tb on for about 4+secs with no heatsink realised, switched it off and it was fine.
     
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  15. 486hawk

    486hawk What's a Dremel?

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    I had set up a T-bird on a development board. Powered it on to see what speed it came up as forgetting the heat sink. 500Mhz.... *looks at die staring up at me* oh ****!!! Turned it off put the heat sink on and it worked fine after that. Good thing the bios was set to do the minimum speed and voltage other wise I would have a crispy Athlon.
     
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  16. Mister_Tad

    Mister_Tad Will work for nuts Super Moderator

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    the top P4s may be worst for heat than athlons but the p4s have a core slowdown which has a very fast polling rate to make sure that the core doesnt overheat. that althlons take a bit longer to figure out that the core is overheating and sometimes they dont shut down in time
     
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  17. tkwsn

    tkwsn What's a Dremel?

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    Maybe we need a poll or something for how long a CPU's stayed working with no heatsink. I got a P3 933MHz for 5 minutes from cold boot, no heatsink, and it worked just fine after that.
     
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  18. Miniboxmaster

    Miniboxmaster What's a Dremel?

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    thats nothing

    when we were kid we had a pentium 150 and we didnt know what the hell we were doing it was clocked to 300 with no fan peeeeeeeeu man it buckled the heatsink and blew a bit out off the pu

    My bro didnt know y itr keep locking up (himmmm wonder y)
     
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  19. FlashPanHunter

    FlashPanHunter What's a Dremel?

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    This is strangly similar to somthing that happened to me. I had a windowed harddrive on top of my cd drives, and I thought it would be nice to tape it down until I got a drive cage (you know, showing it off through the top window.) Well that sucker came off too, but unfortunately I wasn't so lucky. Oh well, I was wanting a new video card and motherboard anyways:D
     
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  20. Dragosoft

    Dragosoft What's a Dremel?

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    My 16mhz intel wasn't burn whitout heatsink... it wasn't even hot :D
     
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