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[Hopalong X]

As best as you can make sure the slot and the cross bars in the bottom of the slot have no extra pieces of plastic in the way.

I had a RAM slot that wouldn't let the stick seat properly on this ASUS board.
When I looked closely and compared it to a slot that did work it had a tiny piece of plastic in that one slot left over from the molding process.
Xacto knife trimmed it and no more problem.

It was very small piece of plastic but in the tight slots that was all that was needed. This- * - was bigger than that extra piece was.

If like me clean your reading glasses and drag out the magnifying glass.

 

[ganjiry]

cheers chap. gonna have a proppa good luck b4 attempting to put the card and remove all connections off the bottom headers. if it does'nt go in then its got to be somethin else.
we shall see in about an hour.

will update asap cheers folks

 

[ganjiry]

Update

ello chaps
well i've got good and bad news lol. the good is i now know whats stopping it. the connectors from the front panel ar just that tiny bit too high and only the few that r on the left side of the front panel hearder.

the bad
i switched the cards just to make sure the second card was working as i had'nt tested it yet. booted up fine but then 30s later it red screened.

 

[tw33k]

New ASUS Maximus V Formula...

 

[ganjiry]

nice 1 chap gratz

 

[paulpicks21]

Very nice Tw33k

 

[tw33k]

Thanks guys. I'm hoping that once I de-lid this chip I'll be able to hit 5GHz. I've already gone to 5.2GHz on my 8150 machine

 

[Britton30]

@Ryan: It appears from the pics you would have room in the 3rd slot? you might re-check the power connectors on the 2nd card to make sure they are fully connected. even a tiny bit out and it won't work properly.

@Mark: Good luck on de-lidding the i7 and not cutting you fingers. I have rad the heat spreader is not soldered on so hopefully it comes off without pulling the die with it.

 

[ganjiry]

@Ryan: It appears from the pics you would have room in the 3rd slot? you might re-check the power connectors on the 2nd card to make sure they are fully connected. even a tiny bit out and it won't work properly.

ello chap
it was the third slot that i used mate. the second slot is just in view under the first card. the connecters that connect to the front panel header are whats stopping it but only the couple on the left side of the header. on the cooler itself it has an angled (diagonal) and if that angle started just a little bit sooner it would be clear. if i were to use the fourth slot it would be blocked even more by the same connectors. if i was to remove part of the coolers corner it would fit :shock:

thanks for the warning about the power connectors but i had just placed the card in place to take the pic. so did'nt bother to connect the power as the card was comming straight out.

im pretty sure the red screens are caused by aida64 as it happend pretty much as aida started. it also happend with the card ive been using for the last few days. aparently the beta version 2.30.1911 solved this but i was using the latest version and it still happend.
so now ive gotta swap the cards again just to make sure the red screens are being caused by aida64.
then if all is good i can come bk to sussing how to get the second card in. ie am i brave enought to take a dremmel to the cards cooler

 

[paulpicks21]

Morning Ganjiry, I think you will get there in the end one way or another!

Did you see my post a while back regarding needing a long SLI bridge? I don't think you answered, do you have one? As you will need one if you are going to run them in SLI.

 

[ganjiry]

ello chap
yeah sorry mate i must have missed it. yup the sli bridge i have is pretty long. enough anyway it came with my mobo luckily as palit don't include em.
once i know both cards r working properly i'll probably take the plunge n dremmel it or find a aftermarket cooler. eventhough though the warranty will be void by doing this. its looking like my best option as i dont really want odd cards
its a bit of a design fault i reckon as most boards have the front panel header in the same place. nevermind aye

 

[Tomha]

Nice to see some activity back in the thread it went dead for a while there.

Had my birthday recently and I have some nice things lined up. I got myself a Samsung 830 120gb SSD for my boot drive which has blazing performance - dropped by boot time from 3-4 minutes before it was smoothly running to around 30 seconds.

On top of that I finally got my replacement H100 from Corsair, now dead silent as opposed to the annoying buzz it made before. There was one issue though...one of the holes in the back plate had no thread D:. I had just destroyed the stock intel cooler, I had been using, trying to get it off, and now I find that one of the screws wont screw in..disaster. Spoke to my dad though and lucky me, he had a tap the perfect size to fix the issue. Slight screw up on Corsair's behalf but all is well now, got my 3770k OC'd at around 4.4 running smooth about 28C idle, ~55C load.

Few more touch ups I'm interested in making before I finish up the rig for now. I'm looking at getting some LED strips to light it all up too, but literally no one in Auckland has the kinds I want in stock, and none of them can give me an ETA either . I also want to get a nice matte black plate over the 5.25" bays to tidy things up, and I'll mount the SSD on there. The great thing about the Samsung 830 is it looks nice and sleek with its brushed black aluminium .

No pics for now, its a mess, back panel won't fit on and there's stuff hanging out the front, but once I tidy things up I'll get some uploaded.

There is this though:

Very happy with it, although I want to see if I cant squeeze a score of 7.9 out of this rig yet

 

[linnemeyerhere]

Tohma,
Nice upgrades and killer WEI score. Please get us some pictures when you can !

Tw33k,
Awesome upgrade on the new Asus mobo it looks amazing with lights on and off, great job and I'm sure it runs fantastic.

ganjiry,
Keep after it as it sounds like your just a little mod away from SLI heaven !

 

[ganjiry]

@ Tohma nice upgrades bet ur well pleased

@linnemeyerhere will do lol these cards would be epic sli'd. i'll get there eventually

 

[Britton30]

I'm looking at getting some LED strips to light it all up too, but literally no one in Auckland has the kinds I want in stock, and none of them can give me an ETA either . I also want to get a nice matte black plate over the 5.25" bays to tidy things up, and I'll mount the SSD on there. The great thing about the Samsung 830 is it looks nice and sleek with its brushed black aluminium .

You might give this place a look. I think they'll ship to NZ, not sure.
PC Case Gear

 

[tw33k]

@Mark: Good luck on de-lidding the i7 and not cutting you fingers. I have rad the heat spreader is not soldered on so hopefully it comes off without pulling the die with it.

It's not soldered which is why there are temp problems with these chips. I have a really thin, sharp blade that will cut through the glue no problem. I'm then using CoolLabs Liquid Ultra between the die and the IHS and between the IHS and the H100. They sent the Liquid Ultra 8 days ago so it should be here very soon (I hope) I can't get it locally so had to order it from the US.

 

[Britton30]

It's not soldered which is why there are temp problems with these chips. I have a really thin, sharp blade that will cut through the glue no problem. I'm then using CoolLabs Liquid Ultra between the die and the IHS and between the IHS and the H100. They sent the Liquid Ultra 8 days ago so it should be here very soon (I hope) I can't get it locally so had to order it from the US.

You're going to put the IHS back on? It's usually about 3 weeks AU>US.
I did some research on the Liquid Pro TIM and it looks like ordianry mercury in their video. Where in the US did you order it from?

 

[A Guy]

Great numbers Tomha. Looks like you'll have a killer rig

A Guy

 

[tw33k]

It's not soldered which is why there are temp problems with these chips. I have a really thin, sharp blade that will cut through the glue no problem. I'm then using CoolLabs Liquid Ultra between the die and the IHS and between the IHS and the H100. They sent the Liquid Ultra 8 days ago so it should be here very soon (I hope) I can't get it locally so had to order it from the US.

You're going to put the IHS back on? It's usually about 3 weeks AU>US.
I did some research on the Liquid Pro TIM and it looks like ordianry mercury in their video. Where in the US did you order it from?

I am going to put the IHS back on yes. Liquid Ultra is just liquid metal but it isn't mercury (I do know it contains gallium). I ordered from Performance Pcs. I've ordered from there lots but this time I used a mail service called Ship To because Performance PCs wanted $30 for shipping. Also, it doesn't take anywhere near 3 weeks for parcels to arrive here from the US. I order from the US a lot and it's never taken more than 2 weeks.

 

[essenbe]

I've been reading that the tim Intel used is great stuff. The problem is the glue. It keeps the IHS from making good contact with the die.