Check this out. This board has been working fine several years for me and I opened it up for some parts juggling after a recent upgrade to another box. Most of the caps along the CPU have opened and leaked. Not only that but the thermal goo on the CPU is weird, there is hardly any of the grayish paste I'm used to seeing and the CPU land and heat-sink have more of what looks and feels like something between vaseline and light machine oil than thermal goo. Do some thermal pastes contain that much oil? Or did some bonehead put it on there?
I've ordered a cap kit for it. I figure it's a darn good board to have lived through that. It is from the smallest of the GX270's and I'm going to fit into a full size case after I re-cap it. One of you guys said you'd done that to one and had to mod the tray or something to fit. It appears the tray jacks the board up too high to fit the backplane of a bigger case. Of course the mtg holes on the MB don't jive either but I think I can work that out. Any tips?
I've ordered a cap kit for it. I figure it's a darn good board to have lived through that. It is from the smallest of the GX270's and I'm going to fit into a full size case after I re-cap it. One of you guys said you'd done that to one and had to mod the tray or something to fit. It appears the tray jacks the board up too high to fit the backplane of a bigger case. Of course the mtg holes on the MB don't jive either but I think I can work that out. Any tips?
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