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It isn't even hot here. Room temperature is about 22°C and all case fans are operational.
If I had a hot-air thingy I could try to reflow the RAM chips. But a replacement card is much cheaper than getting a cheap hot-air station. Maybe I will keep the card for experimenting with it later.
The nVidia 8800GT 512MB that came with my Mac Pro when I bought it three years ago gave up the ghost.
Here it is sitting beside its replacement: the ATI Radeon 5770 1GB. The thing barely fits in the case.
HME 2009, Day 1: Component wall - MSI Big Bang Trinergy. This gaming mainboard drew a lot of attention.
Here you can see the SATA cables connected to the motherboard on the right side. The white-headed cable is for SATA 6.0Gb/s. It goes to the hard drive. I used a mix of straight and 90-degree SATA data cables to get them to run the way I wanted.
Everything is installed. Time for the task of positioning the power, case, and data cables so there is no mess. I want air to flow freely and I don't want any cables getting caught in the CPU's heatsink fan.
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Here we see the main culprit for poor performance, heat, and if left this way, certain death - DUST!
It's a killer, folks. Don't let dust happen to you.
This is the video card. It came with a power cable, but I used the PCIe power cable that came with my power supply instead. I think the connectors on this cable were intended for non-modular power supplies anyway. The card comes with two DVI ports, one DisplayPort, and one HDMI port. I have to use the supplied VGA adaptor for my old CRT monitor. You can also see the vent where hot air is exhausted from the card.
HME 2009, Day 1: Component wall - One of the most popular components which received a lot of attention... and very hard to get at the moment: MSI R5870 but availability should improve soon.
I wonder why it died today. It's not the first time I played Quake4... damn!
I could easily insert a bit of copper/brass foil + thermal goop to restore proper contact. But without an hot-rair station there's no way to give the RAM-chips a treatment that might revive the card.
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My crappy graphics card's fan has conked out YET AGAIN. I am past caring for it any more as it's such a shitty card, so I just slapped this random fan on it.
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HME 2009, Day 1: Component wall with various mainboards and VGA cards. R5870 and Trinergy were very popular.
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And here's the dust scraped just off of the fans. It's not including the dust balls that were stuck on the heatsink radiators. I added the lens cap and screwdriver for scale. Folks, this is a lot of dust and if it's any indication of what's left in the actual case and other parts, I have a lot of cleaning to do.