n3ocort3x Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 (edited) Ok as promised here the pictures from the M14X Mainboard. 2 things to say: - My girlfriend got the good lens with her so I have to take the pictures with a middle range lens (unsharp @ edges) - Someone put the iso value up to 1200, so the pictures are a little bit noisy. I saw it to late as I edited them in Photoshop and the M14X was assembled again If anyone needs pictures from a dedicated area --> tell me... I disasemble again when I have the good lens back because I want to have "perfect" pictures. The process took me about 2 hours but now I know how to do and i´m sure it is possible to disassemble the whole machine in half an hour. So its no problem to do it again Here we go: From left to right: CPU and GPU CPU and RAM Socket 3 Shots, edited to 1 large image, frontside 4 Shots, edited to 1 large image, backside If someone needs the untaged pictures, feel free to pm me. Edited August 17, 2011 by n3ocort3x 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder StamatisX Posted August 17, 2011 Founder Share Posted August 17, 2011 They look just fine to me... thanks for uploading and +rep for your effort Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n3ocort3x Posted August 17, 2011 Author Share Posted August 17, 2011 (edited) I just want to say that I replaced the Thermal Compund as I disassembled the M14X... on both GPU and CPU. Before i got 80 degrees in 3DMark11 on CPU and 75 degrees on GPU (after 4 runs) . Now slightly hit 70 Degrees on CPU and 60 - 62 Degrees on GPU (after 4 runs). Prime95 small FFT results in 70 - 72 Degrees on CPU. So this replacement gave me a huge cooling plus. As a patriot, I used NOCTUA thermal compound from austria... xDI think the main problem is that the thermal compund was everywhere. On the CPU, beside the CPU, on the heatsink... and too much... now there are 2 little drops on cpu angpu and its much better...Tempreatures measured in the 4th run with REAL TEMP, GPU-Z logfile, CORE TEMP, DESKTOP WIDGET (Logfile) Edited August 17, 2011 by n3ocort3x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svl7 Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 Thanks for the pics! In case you disassemble it again sometime, can you check the two ICs which I marked in the attached pic? One of them is probably the BIOS chip, unless there are more of such chips with the same size and pin count. They're probably SST chips, would be great to know the nr., I can't make it out on the pic, too noisy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n3ocort3x Posted August 17, 2011 Author Share Posted August 17, 2011 (edited) The left one is a WINBOND-25Q64BVSIG (Serial Flash). I looked at the single pictures and do some image editing so that it was able to read.... hard... but with photoshop and some tricks it worked... xD For the right... that will cost me a) some hours in photoshop or 10 minutes tomorow to disassemble the keyboard (not the whole machine)... The chip is located @ a good position... so i choose b... xD Hope it will help ya... Edited August 18, 2011 by n3ocort3x 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svl7 Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 Thanks a lot for checking!! That's huge, a 64Mbit chip... on the M15x it's a 16Mbit chip. I should be able to flash them with my programmer, that's great to know. So I could theoretically revive a system after a bad flash, I'd only need some 64Mbit chips, I only have 16Mbits laying around atm, and they won't work, the BIOS file is bigger than 4MB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n3ocort3x Posted August 18, 2011 Author Share Posted August 18, 2011 I hope i read it right... 64 confuses me a little bit... thats huge... before you buy something wrong let me check when i disassemble again... i think i read it correct.... 64*confusedlooking* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svl7 Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 Well, the BIOS file is slightly larger than 4 Megabyte, so this actually makes sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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