Feeling real stoooopid !!!!

[Carl A]

Ok so a new of box of water-cooling bits arrived a few days ago. I got it all installed, looped up and air free so time to power up and marvel at my lovely temps. The GPU was hitting 80c on 3DMark11 graphics tests...so scratching of my head began in earnest. Could not work it out for the life of me, the waterblock in question is an Alphacool universal GPU block (Non-ref 6950). So I left it for the next day......woke up and it dawned on me, the bleeding plastic protector on the block,.....Stupid !!!!

Temps are now maxing out at 37c.....what a difference.

So my question is.....own up who else has done this

I Went from kakking myself to a big grin in about 20 minutes.

Carl

 

[ruthless_villain]

never done it but made me laugh lol

 

[Alexander Lee]

Never left a label on but hopefully now I never will forget to take them off either

thanks for posting that as it made me laugh too

 

[AciD_RaiN]

I forgot to put the O-ring into my res when installing the pump so when I turned it on there was a nice flow on to the Blu-ray drive and like 40 cm straight out of the rs and on to the floor. Fortunately nothing got damaged but took me a few hours to take everything apart to dry... Read the instructions asshole hahahaha I had no idea how to install the bits so I just improvised

You make mistakes to learn from them

 

[hmmblah]

I haven't personally done that, but ran into this about 8 years ago with an OEM manufacturer, Systemax. Had about 20 of their PCs comes in in an order, all of them with the protective film on the heatsink. Of course I didn't notice right away until the customer started complaining about slow machines and machines that would lock up after extended use.

 

[tharionos]

ah well we all do silly stuff

good to hear u got it solved

it did make me chuckle cause i also did stuff like that but on other stuff

like figuring out why something would not work and then notice the power plug wasen't stuck in lol

happened also with my SSD when it coulden't find the ssd then slapped my head cause i forgot to replugg the power feed lol

 

[Murphyslaw]

was funny hearing about the plastic.

sounding a bit like when I built my first pc years back plugged everything in didn't work,

eventually noticed that the 240V plug to the power supply wasn't plugged into the power supply

 

[Carl A]

I laughed as well but is was more relief

Won't be doing this again anyway, what a waste of my time. I Could have forgiven myself if this was my first loop but.......

Anyways, all's well that ends well.

 

[mundivalur]

HAHA that nice plastic

 

[Carl A]

It must be.....80c and not a mark on it

 

[blitztech]

Has happen to me as well only with the Alphacool xXoXx AM3 CPU acrylic block.

Speed of which I am using it with a RS240 and X20 and my idle temps are 35'C and load temps are 67'C is something wrong?

 

[ruthless_villain]

your temps are fine for a slim 240mm rad

 

[nepas]

Done it with a cpu in the past (Opty 165 on a 939 system),bricked it for a few minutes,then sat there swearing at myself for 30 mins,chip still ran sweet as a nut after that(well until it got zapped by some vigorous volts whilst O/C'ing,was around 1.9v iirc,still have a pic somewhere),still have the board,may have to try and get another chip just for lol's.

 

[arnzzz]

on youtube i watched a guy install a new heatsink on his cpu and the video was like 10 minutes long, you could see right away

he had left the protective film on and it wasnt until like 8 mins in he realised lol. Funniest thing was listening to him talk

about people making "noob" mistakes while at the same time he was doing that hahha

and he still posted it so big respect to him

 

[mayhem]

Done quite a few times in a rush to get a test up and runing and then face palming when the temps go though the roof ...

 

[Carl A]

Aha not alone then, props to the gents who admit their mistakes !!!!

 

[dipzy]

I remember fitting a gpu in and switching on my system to hear a loud, beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeppp!!!!!

Turned out i forgot to plug in the 6pin power

 

[nepas]

Knew I had the suicide pics somewhere:

was pretty cool (in BIOS anyway)

 

[Damien c]

Well I have had a few mistakes in the past.

1st that I will mention wasn't my mistake but my dad's mistake, as he left the sticker on the cpu block and then wondered why the temp's were so high.

2nd was recently when I mounted a radiator upside down, and then wondered why the temp's were 10c lower once I removed the rad.

3rd fitting barb's to graphic's card block and cracked the block because I did them to tight

Made other mistakes but simply put they are not really that interesting other than blowing a few chip's and boards.

 

[mayhem]

TBH many over clocker's / modder's will admit there mistake "IF" they are a good over clocker / modder.

1) Knowing when you wrong is a good thing and shows you exceptance to learn new things.

2) It shows you NOT a Big head and that it hasnt gone to your head

3) Shows your a Normal person

4) Shows you are human

5) Shows you not ignorant.

No one is perfect and No single person knows every thing. Even if they know a lot there is allways some thing more to learn.