Rendered.......( aka die 680i die)

[BrainEater]

Heheheh......

I took the 680i southbridge to work today to meet a different friend.

Now , a southy chip (or any large chip for that matter) is reasonably indestructable....it's a hunk of ceramic....
We've already done the hammer thing.Lets try something new.




This is a 10000 PSI hydraulic pump hooked up to one of my small rams (25 tons).



Time for release.

Those 2 threadbars in the picture are attached to the side of a house.

Video time

http://braineater.kicks-ass.tv/miscshite/MVI_1796.avi

haw.

That'll do it.



Teheh

That ram has an active area of 5.156 square inches , so that reading indicates just over 41 thousand pounds . At this point , the 680i southbridge is, quite literally holding the corner of a 3 story house 1/8 of an inch above it's footing.

Result ;



Heh.....it's basically sand...I can crumble that thing in my fingers.

[3.0charlie]

Hashes to hashes, dust to dust, Fade to black...

Euh... sorry. It's sand.

And I must ask: were the hell to you work, to have access to such tools? Demolition Company?

[Cptn Vortex]

Construction I bet. I once used some of those to lift a cottage I was working on off the ground, which we then cleared out underneath, and poured a foundation. Fun times crawling under a house held up by air! hehehe

[BrainEater]

hehe

Um......

I'm a ninja house lifter.

I have 19 years of experience with my good friend's (cls||Pigg) company , Liftech Systems Inc.We do building releveling.We relevel buildings that have sank from bad dirt basically.

[zVp]

Wow. MORE MORE MORE!

Or, is the whole motherboard dust now? :P

[BrainEater]

Oh no.It's a long way from done.

It's been hanging out strangling in it's own circuits for a couple days.

My cLAN it getting together this weekend , so mr striker is done for. heh

[BrainEater]

hehe

Whew , great lan this weekend !

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I had intended to get a dewar of ln2 for fridays' festivities so we could shatter the mobo proper , but I wasn't off work in time..... so it's still intact...

However , it was subjected to quite the humiliation.

A quite fitting image for an edsel of a 400$ motherboard :




laffff.....

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I'm gonna try and line up the ln2 for this week.

[SKYMTL]

God, if our ASUS or Nvidia rep sees this....

Can you link us to the thread explaining WHAT exactly happened to set you off like this?

[BrainEater]

Haha... no no no...you don't get it. I want them to see it.

No link required.I would be happy to vent about it for the last and final time.

And let me preface this by saying , I hold no ill will against either ASUS or Nvidia.I purchased another asus board to replace mr striker (Maximus formula ,awesome board works great)...and I run an Nvidia 8800GTX and I love it as well....I've been an nvidia video card customer for years and will continue to do so.

edit : I'm also using both ASUS and Nvidia again on the Thinktank 2.0 project.

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Back when the core2 line came out , I was ready for an upgrade.as per usual I spent months carefully planning out the parts/specs etc.

I decided on an ASUS striker extreme as being the best chipset for what I wanted/upgradeablity etc.....

I waited on a special order list for six weeks and paid 430 $ CDN for my striker.

I got it home , put it together , it was awesome.

For 9 months.

Then it ate my 400$ ram....

Then it self-fried it's BIOS.

I took it in for bios redo.....

It ate 3 more sets (dual channel) of ram..

The next bios kill I managed to fix myself.....

It ate 1 more set of ram.

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After seeing the hundreds of thousands of similar posts about the 680i chipset , (and starting a few of my own) it was plainly evident the 680i chipset was not to be trusted.

I'm not going to point fingers at ASUS or Nvidia.

This is just a 'Bad Dog !' to my favorite companies.They sold me a lemon for a lotta cash , and I'm (was) pissed about it.

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I am over it.But if you think I'm not going to get as much final entertainment out mr striker as I can , well , you'd be wrong .

[sswilson]

Heh... love the new look ashtray!!! :)