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STEP FIVE
one or all of the cards at one point
before you are done overclocking.
Rinse and repeat the process
identically for the other three cards
and you’re ready to move on to the
motherboard. Note the location of
the blue probe line and where it
leaves the pot on each unit, out of
the way of any pouring or torching
action. [PICTURES 5 AND 6]
STEP FOUR
Take the board and grease the
hell out of it in all the green areas
highlighted. I lightly grease the PCIe
slots on the top. I do not recommend
loading them up with grease as this
almost always leads to detection
issues later and it’s not necessary.
[PICTURES 7 AND 8]
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Now flip the board over and cut
some strips of foam tape for
the underside of the slot area.
This whole area will suffer
condensation even when just
pre-testing four GPUs mildly
overclocked around -50c or so. If
you don't believe me try it without
the tape then you will see what
you need to do :). Grease the
sticky side of the tape and stick it
on the same way as was done on
the rear of the cards. As long as
the slots are all covered, you’re
good.
With the board right side up,
Pack the paper towels in nice
and tight and make sure that
the condensation doesn’t come
anywhere in contact with the
motherboard. [PICTURE 9 AND 10]
STEP SIX
This next part is pretty important
for solid detection of the cards
once everything is frozen and
being stressed. It's of utmost
importance that you force the
cards down as straight as possible
into the board, because a leaning
card or cards can cause detection
issues easily while overclocking.
This leaning can also pop out the
pins in the PCIe slots. I always
make some simple container
shims of different thicknesses for
each unit in the system to keep
them all nice and straight. Place
one under each container as it’s
placed on the board, checking to