So apparently PowerColor don't have access to their own data, because the archives are at some external warehouse. Hmmpf.

I guess it's time for a replacement card. I just wish the GTX960 were out already for the price drop on the used market.

You can mount back the original inductor without the casing, BUT: 1. Do damn good soldering, and 2. Once in place, cover the inductor completely with acid-free RTV. The problem is, I don't have any RTV silicones. Maybe some of my friends can help. In the meantime, I've gotten in touch with Powercol...

Progress! After some time on google (sadly, hours, not minutes), I'm a little wiser. I believe it is a shielded power inductor, listed as APL-PQ on this website: http://www.magictec.com.tw/magic%20web(EN)/pro_all.aspx?product1=Shield%20Construction&product2=Pin%20Type%20Power%20Inductors So it proba...

Thanks for your reply, Zolishoru. Solder it back, then cover it with RTV or conformal coating(I think the vibration breaks the choke free, so it needs some dampening). It did actually fall apart. I think it got so hot that the dampening material slowly deteriorated, which was likely the foul odours ...

Riiight, so it seems the choke heated up high enough to free itself of the solder again. Bummer. It's possibly that the part itself is running a hot. I'm not quite sure what can go wrong with a piece of wire, ferrite core and insulation, but hey... let's give it a shot. Now is not a good time for me...

Vicotnik wrote:Noisy and expensive. No thanks.

+1
A shame that thunderbolt is still mostly a Mac thing.

Pappnaas wrote:publisher would have to supply 2 versions of any game, one 1080p and a 4k version. This means higher developing costs and depending on the engine used even twofold programming.

They would? I'm confused...

Neat! Now I want one.

Very impressive! Can you stress the system, without it throttling (reducing the clocks)?

that was an impressive fix :) Very 70's / 80's of you. Hobbyist approach gets my respect :) Thanks, man! As a precaution, I've added a variable resistor to the fan in front of the graphics card. I'll just turn it up for gaming (~900 vs 600 rpm), which keeps the maximum around 70 instead of 85 degre...

Awww, almost looks like an old beetle. Nostalgia!

Thanks guys, I was doing a little victory dance yesterday. Well, it was more of a Gary Newman chair dance, but you get the picture :mrgreen: Back in my big soldering days, we had what was effectively a small turkey baster/ huge eye dropper kind of suction. Get the solder melty then suck it up. The e...

Well, I soldered the damn thing back on and it revived the card! Yeah!

A few things of note. Desoldering holes is a real pain. And soldering honking huge inductors takes a lot of heat.

So think for my first soldering job, I was thrown into the deep end.

Hi Mike, Yeah I'd say go for it. A few issues off the top of my head: 1). If you've never done soldering before, it might be worth doing a little bit of practice beforehand. Or getting someone with soldering experience to do it for you. You want to make sure you form a solid join and don't accident...

Hi silent folks! Yesterday my graphics card gave up the ghost (in the middle of a Dota session!). There was a somewhat nasty smell, a few seconds before it gave. At least I think it did, as the PC refused to boot. And according to Abit-beep-speech *beeeeeeeep-beep-beep* means graphics card is naught...

I kind of feel the fins are oriented the wrong way to take most effect of case fans. In a front-to-back flow scenario they are perpendicular to it...

But good to see there's something out there soon.

CA_Steve wrote:

Cistron wrote:Damn they are still pricey. Is £120 normal?

PCPartpicker shows some (fanned models) a bit cheaper.

Thanks Steve.

I've already conceded to the fact that fanless cards currently aren't high on the priority list of manufacturers. Shame.

Damn they are still pricey. Is £120 normal?

My poor passive HD3870 died today and I was pondering about a replacement.

Optical is a useless interface - it is extremely jitter prone and only supports a max of 24/96kHz. No good dac worth its name uses optical for anything serious. Eg : My Parasound provides a pair of optical inputs but the manual explicitly mentions that they sound signficantly poorer than the BNC in...

Not sure what you mean by 'how much are you currently saving?' I haven't found or chosen a suitable case yet. Ah rats, I misinterpreted your first post. For some reason it resonated to me as if you wanted to go even cheaper than the 200R. Dyslexia and vivid imagination ... :mrgreen: Does it have to...

Hi guys So I'm upgrading my Dad's PC and have got him a i5-4670k and Asus Z97-A for £265 (with £30 cashback to come). I went a bit OTT with the PSU and got him a Corsair CX750M, when he'll probably only be pulling 400W max and that's if he gets a very powerful GPU which is probably unlikely but I f...

Hey guys, My eyes always water a little when I read the main articles on my phone or even iPad. And I noticed the design is still done with tables (soooo 90ies :)). It probably isn't high up on the priority list, but so many things have changed in Webdesign. Responsive, mobile first, Wordpress has t...

I think AMD is still hoping their heterogeneous system architecture (HSA) will take off - but does FM2+ even support those processors?

They got so played by Intel. The 1 billion in reparation payment doesn't even remotely cover the damage Intel made in the early 2000s by unfair competition.

around 2004 i got a scythe ninja give or take a few years. it's a heat pipe cooler with aluminum fins. it's 2014 now. has there been any technology advances in heat pipe coolers - or coolers that don't involve a pump? in what ways are heat pipe coolers in 2014 more advance technologically than 2004...

NeilBlanchard wrote:engineering where it counts.

At the base (queue drum-cymbals) - seemingly the most important thing, as it is the bottleneck. Looking at direct-touch coolers even 3 heat-pipes are sufficient for excellent cooling.

edh wrote:Distilled water is too conductive to work fully but I do wonder if demineralised water might actually work.

The problem would actually be that as soon as it dissolves any salt-residues of the materials it is in contact with it becomes conductive.

Now the video is gone completely. For me Christmas has always been a time of family feuds. Somehow "tradition" seems to force incompatible characters under one roof, which inevitably leads to trauma. I think we'd all be better off without it. Would probably clear up seats on airlines as well. :mrgre...

Can you produce the fuel to power any other sedan? At home I guess you mean? Yes, biodiesel. Restaurants use many litres of vegetable oil in frying and it is a potentially harmful thing when discharged into drains and watercourses. It cakes up sewers! You can collect this waste product at source fr...

and it redefines the automobile. AND that truly scares the crap out of the 'car' industry and most of its fervent petrol-head supporters. AND they have done it without any paid advertising, AND without any dealerships. If we all drive an EV, then we can stop buying foreign oil. Can you imagine that...

I think you must be confused, I never at any point stated I am a scientist and I am not throwing scientific numbers about, frankly I am a bit confused as to why a scientist appears to be doing the job of a delivery driver, surely your impressive brain could get you a nice cushy desk job, all the dr...