Condensation Concerns

[steve101101]

I was interested in purchashing a new Prometeia Mach II but I was concerned about the threat of condensation ruining my new computer. I live in Pennsylvania were were the average humidity is around 65-70%. Do you guys feel that the Mach II is good enough and creates no condensation or do you need to mod it inorder to stop condensation. Thanks

 

[fatty]

First off welcome to the forums steve101101 your concerns echo many others that start out with phase change all I can say is if you read the guides here carefully and also invest in some dieletric grease ( dow corning DC4 ), you should have very little to worry about.

In the 4 or 5 years I have been using Phase I think I have only killed 1 motherboard

 

[steve101101]

So just place the dieletric grease in the socket and in the "hole in the middle".

 

[Thickbrit]

I would like to add that the newer 775 boards are far more resilient to condensation than some of the boards i've had in the past.I have a p5wd2-p running under a gt here,and it has been doing so flawlessly for about 8 months now.A few simple precautionary steps and you should have little to worry about.

 

[steve101101]

I have a core 2 duo (2.4 Native) and a ASUS P5N32-SLI. What steps did you do?

 

[Thickbrit]

Cover the caps of the cpu in dc4,smear a very light coat over the contact pads on cpu.Put enough dc4 in bottom of square hole in socket to cover all the smd's.Wipe down mobo and evap fitting kit parts with ipa before applying a normal bead of sealstring in relevant places.

 

[steve101101]

Thanks, Thats what i thought. One more question, what is ipa?

 

[Thickbrit]

isopropyl alchohol,from maplin/boots.

 

[justin]

isopropyl alchohol,from maplin/boots.

Radioshack for you in America

 

[steve101101]

Thanks guys, your great. You gave me the information that resolved my only concern about using a phase changer

 

[inspector-71]

I've not used dielectric grease on my ultra-d. Not had any issues but is it generally seen as a good idea? I am getting a p5b-deluxe soon.

 

[Master_G]

Dielectric grease certainly reduces the chances of getting condensation, and so many people think it a good idea.

There is basically a trade-off between putting time and effort in to setting up (and cleaning up when you are finished with the part) and risking losing hardware through condensation. How much risk you want to take/how much effort you want to put in is up to you.

G