- Jul 25, 2007
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Howdy Folks,
I decided since I was stuck at my folks house over the holidays without a lot to do I'd go ahead and delid my i5-3570k and migrate to a sealed watercooling loop (in my case the H110). The actual delidding process went okay, but I had to create a "custom" mounting bracket for the waterblock/pump in order to get it to seat fully on top of the IHS (I put the IHS back on top, used CLU between the core and the IHS after lapping the IHS to 2500 grit). I'm concerned that I may have exceeded the mounting pressure limitations of the CPU and/or the socket.
I've backed it off, but no dice still. Any suggestions on how to tell if the core is damaged during a visual inspection? I'm not planning to deal with it tonight, and I'm going to travel back home this week. When I get back to my place I plan to take it entirely apart again and give it a good visual inspection and see what I broke.
The current behavior is that when I power it on I get all the fans to spin up shortly, and then it immediately powers off. It never gets farther than that. Typically this would indicate a short, but I was exceedingly careful with the Liquid Ultra, so I don't believe I would have caused any shorts (I actually applied it outside of the chassis, then seated the CPU in the socket, set the IHS on top, and clamped it down before putting the waterblock/pump on). I'm not sure if I cracked the core (with the delid, the IHS sits directly on it) or I bent pins in the socket, but I don't think a short has occurred anywhere in the system.
Anyway, thoughts/commiseration would be welcome. If I'm unable to identify the cause for the failure, I suppose I'm going to order a new CPU and try again, although I'd be more comfortable doing so if I can prove beyond a doubt that I did not damage the mobo in any way.
I decided since I was stuck at my folks house over the holidays without a lot to do I'd go ahead and delid my i5-3570k and migrate to a sealed watercooling loop (in my case the H110). The actual delidding process went okay, but I had to create a "custom" mounting bracket for the waterblock/pump in order to get it to seat fully on top of the IHS (I put the IHS back on top, used CLU between the core and the IHS after lapping the IHS to 2500 grit). I'm concerned that I may have exceeded the mounting pressure limitations of the CPU and/or the socket.
I've backed it off, but no dice still. Any suggestions on how to tell if the core is damaged during a visual inspection? I'm not planning to deal with it tonight, and I'm going to travel back home this week. When I get back to my place I plan to take it entirely apart again and give it a good visual inspection and see what I broke.
The current behavior is that when I power it on I get all the fans to spin up shortly, and then it immediately powers off. It never gets farther than that. Typically this would indicate a short, but I was exceedingly careful with the Liquid Ultra, so I don't believe I would have caused any shorts (I actually applied it outside of the chassis, then seated the CPU in the socket, set the IHS on top, and clamped it down before putting the waterblock/pump on). I'm not sure if I cracked the core (with the delid, the IHS sits directly on it) or I bent pins in the socket, but I don't think a short has occurred anywhere in the system.
Anyway, thoughts/commiseration would be welcome. If I'm unable to identify the cause for the failure, I suppose I'm going to order a new CPU and try again, although I'd be more comfortable doing so if I can prove beyond a doubt that I did not damage the mobo in any way.