[Build Log] Narada - 800D - Page 14

yeah man, the most expensive single part in the whole rig and thats the one that gets ruined. i couldnt believe myself, i couldnt believe i let that happen. i could have prevented it too if i was more careful about the fittings since i was moving the ram block around. i'll never forget it, and its definitely a learning experience.

no problem, glad to share the good, even the bad
you should make a build log, there always fun and its cool to catalog the whole process from start to finish. people have told me that many watch my log but not post, i guess thats fine lol but its nice getting replies on this.

i wish it didnt happen either, trust me.

9/1/12 - Minor Update

well i looked into diamond's warranty information and such, heard from many people that the customer service for that company sucks big time, but i put in a ticket for replacement anyway. its weird that the card died 100%, because there barely was any water on the actual pcb, the black plate caught most of it. anyway, cleaned it up so well theres no way to tell there is water damage on it. i'd like to slap the stock cooler back on there and ship it to diamond, hopefully to get it replaced. i read something about a guy sending his gpu in to diamond and after 2 months he hadnt heard from them or received a new gpu so im kinda nervous about that. plus if they find out i slapped a waterblock on there they'll void it, and i wont get it back.

i'd like to put it on ebay, because for some reason people still buy video cards that are dead. make 50 bucks or something who knows. but if diamond takes it and refutes the warranty, i wont get it back.

but in the mean time, i went to microcenter after looking on their website..

picked up a Vision Tek 7970 for $368!

so Narada is back up and running, im just outta pocket 3 bills which definitely wasnt the plan for my friday night. i just need to figure out what to do about my dead 7970.

here are some pics..



since the pics i slapped the waterblock on the vision tek and flashed the bios to ghz edition.

that's another thing im wondering about with the diamond, its also flashed to the ghz edition as well

if you guys know anyone who'd want a dead 7970 send em my way lol

oh forgot to mention but i decided to replace my front 140mm intake fan with something that moves a bit more air.

grabbed a 140mm bgears blaster fan, rated 103cfm at 1800rpm which is amazing.
hooked it up to the lamptron fan controller and it works much better than the 800rpm> enermax tb silence fan.

i also plan replacing all of the 120mm enermax fans as soon as the noiseblocker eloop fans come out. the specs look amazing and it should look great in the narada.

also, last night when i was installing the heatkiller waterblock, i decided to run thermal compound on the vrms instead of the 1mm thick crappy-ish thermal pads i had leftover.
i must have done a better job with the compound in general because i am indeed seeing lowered temps on the gpu as well as the vrms. the mosfets i still used the specially cut thermal pads that heatkiller supplied with the waterblock.

They're great actually. Completely silent. I hear my Xbox 360 over the Narada by far. And that's with 11 of those fans, plus 2 water pumps. I highly recommend them. Haha man, if you'd like to wait till those noiseblocker eloop fans come out, I'll sell ya my tb silence 120mm fans to you lol

how ironic, the visiontek is a better overclocker LOL

thank you sir! that is much appreciated

yeah man before i had the 7970 i had several different nvidia cards and overclocked those the best i could with watercooling and it was no where near what cards nowadays can do, especially the 7970.

i decided to go full AMD on this build and i dont regret it one bit.

btw i dont know how you can say that, about 7970's are more OCable when you got a pair of 680s at 1352/7000 LOL dear lord.

9/6/12 Very Minor Update

was at Fry's earlier today when i spotted some red anodized thumb screws that i could use for my pci slots in my case.

threw them in, have a look:




my point and shoot sucks so much.. i need a dslr lol