indeed!

How you guys get so much rust??   even a slight coating of Vaseline will help with that. 
Q, I would suggest calling anyone you know at EVGA and seeing if they know of any hamburger 295's laying around, or you will end up getting a single PCB back. 

1.5750 @ 4.6ghz Turbo on HT OFF.

nateman_doo

How you guys get so much rust??   even a slight coating of Vaseline will help with that. 
Q, I would suggest calling anyone you know at EVGA and seeing if they know of any hamburger 295's laying around, or you will end up getting a single PCB back. 

Yes, i did already and they can get me a dual card.

xxrabid93

wow, i definitely have to break down my rig that still has eraser on it. I hope the rust isn't bad for me (hopefully there is none of it). That would suck if rust KO'd a board...

The rust looks like it comes from the hold down bracket screws.  It wipes right off the hold down bracket.  And as long as you have plastidip or eraser on the mobo, you should have no problem.  I even wiped the rust off the plasti-dip coating. 

Like John said....it's somehow air is getting in and around the bracket.  I tried eraser and PJ, but that turned out to be a real mess.  PJ breaks down the eraser into a messy goo.

I'm thinking some real think layers of foam stacked up on the area surrounding the socket (like Nate does), and some thin strips of foam between the socket and the bracket.  I saw that on xs forum...on of the top guys does it...forget who.  You have to be precise though...air has a funny way of finding it's way through sloppiness, lol!

johnksss



also...i bought me a laptop...nothing fancy though...just needed something better than my old nc8430

Nice 470 runs....for a second I thought you were showing us what your new laptop could do,lol!  What laptop did you get?

lol, thanks! trying to understand the 470's and how they work.
i got the gateway nv7915u. the i3-330m model and since this thing is upgradeable from the cpu point of view...i grabbed it. ran a few benchmarks with it and grabbed a few trophies. so far i like it. will switch out the the 2.13 ghz cpu for the 2.4 or 2.5 with turbo boost...later

Great John!  Oh, and I see you got scook9 to join us...now that's a team leader in action!

yep.


trying to see if mandrake is game...he is on the fence about going to a desktop now.


and about the pj and the eraser... i bought a gang of that stuff.. so i just pulled it up as a whole piece...then took apart the bracket and pressure washed it clean. took a bit, but it came off.

I don't mind cleaning the bracket.  Because the eraser was mixed with the pj, I just wiped it off once I heated up with the hair dryer.  It was the remaining goo around the socket that needed the hands of a surgeon to remove.