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- Feb 3, 2018
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- San Antonio, Texas
| System Name | 15 systems running boinc all built from parts individually bought and new and used except Area51 |
|---|---|
| Processor | i9-7900x, 2@Q9650, x5470, 3@Q9550, i7-950, 2@x5680, 6@E5620, x5675, x5570 |
| Motherboard | 3@dell, 4@msi, eVga, 3@asus, gigabyte, 3@hp. One of dell is Area51 only one I ever bought complete. |
| Cooling | all of the hex core are liquid cooled as well as the Q9650s and that i9 & i7 |
| Memory | 8 to 12 gb except Area51 has 32. |
| Video Card(s) | 570, 650ti, 670, 770, 1050ti, 1060, 1070, & rx570, 7850, 7950 & yes, I contributed to 1070 shortage |
| Storage | 64+ TB in USB3 storage, all for my blu-ray & dvd collection. |
| Display(s) | Pair of 23 inch cheap. |
| Case | One is LianLI one of my kids gave me, about 1/2 are open air boinc farm. Can I pimp them? |
| Audio Device(s) | Yes, got a Yamaha amp and 7.1 speakers |
| Power Supply | tried to get all 80+ bronze or gold, but some are losers |
| Mouse | Yes. I hate glides but sometime got to use them. Optical track-ball nice but out of my price range |
| Keyboard | Surface pro 4 has a keyboard that keeps falling off. |
| Software | 3@ubuntu, 11 @ windows 10. My kids run several macs and a win7 system. |
| Benchmark Scores | About 80-90 grc a day but will drop out of the grcpool and start solo mining shortly |
Not sure how it happened but my VII quit working and does not show up in the motherboard PCIe BIOS "inventory". The slot is shown empty but any other board populating the slot shows up.
Looking at the board I spotted a charred contact: the 'hot plug" pin was somehow damaged. I have three of these AMD VII and have never been able to get any of them to work in any riser (x1..x8).
I am going to try some of that silver ink as I have no other way to repair that gold finger. I assume the problem is those pins. I scrapped off the charred metal.
Any idea what caused the problem in the first place? If the gold was peeled off when inserted possibly the "black" that I saw was just the underside of the peeled off gold and not anything charred?
Looking at the board I spotted a charred contact: the 'hot plug" pin was somehow damaged. I have three of these AMD VII and have never been able to get any of them to work in any riser (x1..x8).
I am going to try some of that silver ink as I have no other way to repair that gold finger. I assume the problem is those pins. I scrapped off the charred metal.
Any idea what caused the problem in the first place? If the gold was peeled off when inserted possibly the "black" that I saw was just the underside of the peeled off gold and not anything charred?
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