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RIP EAS Nimrod
4 years ago
RIP EAS Nimrod
https://ibb.co/9qw25P4
Phenom II – X555 (Was sold as dual core. Actually has four cores, but the fourth one on this one it’s faulty, so I can use 3 cores) with a Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3 Rev 3.0 (I brought both 10 years ago or so) – 12 gb of ram and a Radeon RX 580 8 gb
It stopped answering, when I tried to turn it off wouldn’t even if I kept pressing the power button. Had to completely cut the power, funny thing, this already happened one and half months ago, I unplugged stuff, jiggled around, and started working again. However I really didn’t liked the idea it would fix itself, I really wanted to know what was going on. But whatever.
This time, I unplugged everything, and went deeper until I removed the power supply and found this.
Probably that’s the toll that the mobo and wires took for overclocking it (from 3,2 to 4,1 ghz) and overvolting it (+ 0.4V) and running it daily (and sometimes for several days without turning it off) for 6 years.
Fortunately the hard disks (and the valuable data, models and all stuff) are intact. From time to time I make offline backups but still…
I used this computer mainly for rendering (GPU rendering of course), centralizing data and files, and watch movies on the tv. Also I occasionally I ran programs in parallel (say, blender on one pc, substance painter on this one, mainly to balance ram memory)
Sniff, I really appreciated her.
Thinking about it, perhaps this problem might have started as long as 6 months ago or so, however the whole thing didn’t burned because the cage had a ton of refrigeration, I even had a small fan aiming straight to the VRMs, probably that’s why it lasted so long and didn’t fail right away.
I still have my other computer (ARA Esteban Echeverría – Xeon x5450 – 4 cores – 3,4 ghz overclock – 8 gb ddr 2 ram) and still can do stuff, but it will be harder now.
I’m planning in revive her despite knowing very little of electronics and how to do soldering. Also the power supply took a hit on its wires. (That one ALSO has 10 years of service, but it’s a quite good one and also has 700W, so it’s worth rescuing)
https://ibb.co/9qw25P4
Phenom II – X555 (Was sold as dual core. Actually has four cores, but the fourth one on this one it’s faulty, so I can use 3 cores) with a Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3 Rev 3.0 (I brought both 10 years ago or so) – 12 gb of ram and a Radeon RX 580 8 gb
It stopped answering, when I tried to turn it off wouldn’t even if I kept pressing the power button. Had to completely cut the power, funny thing, this already happened one and half months ago, I unplugged stuff, jiggled around, and started working again. However I really didn’t liked the idea it would fix itself, I really wanted to know what was going on. But whatever.
This time, I unplugged everything, and went deeper until I removed the power supply and found this.
Probably that’s the toll that the mobo and wires took for overclocking it (from 3,2 to 4,1 ghz) and overvolting it (+ 0.4V) and running it daily (and sometimes for several days without turning it off) for 6 years.
Fortunately the hard disks (and the valuable data, models and all stuff) are intact. From time to time I make offline backups but still…
I used this computer mainly for rendering (GPU rendering of course), centralizing data and files, and watch movies on the tv. Also I occasionally I ran programs in parallel (say, blender on one pc, substance painter on this one, mainly to balance ram memory)
Sniff, I really appreciated her.
Thinking about it, perhaps this problem might have started as long as 6 months ago or so, however the whole thing didn’t burned because the cage had a ton of refrigeration, I even had a small fan aiming straight to the VRMs, probably that’s why it lasted so long and didn’t fail right away.
I still have my other computer (ARA Esteban Echeverría – Xeon x5450 – 4 cores – 3,4 ghz overclock – 8 gb ddr 2 ram) and still can do stuff, but it will be harder now.
I’m planning in revive her despite knowing very little of electronics and how to do soldering. Also the power supply took a hit on its wires. (That one ALSO has 10 years of service, but it’s a quite good one and also has 700W, so it’s worth rescuing)
