Adhesive on Motherboard?

Rizin

Rizin

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I just purchased the Thermaltake Tai-Chi case with Water Cooling. To mount the CPU water block you have to screw a metal h-plate, mylar, and insulator onto the bottom of the motherboard. The insulator is supposed to go against the motherboard, but it has removable paper which reveals an adhesive. I am curious to know if it is alright to apply this insulator with the adhesive exposed to the motherboard. I have an Asus P5WD2 Premium, and I figure I will roll with the old saying "better safe than sorry".
 
If I'm understanding you correctly, couldn't you flip the insulator over and place the adhsesive on the h-bracket or mylar and have the other side in contact with the motherboard. I personally wouldnt want to put adhesive on my motherboard.
 
Nope, both sides of the insulator have the adhesive. Yeah, I feel the same way about putting it on my motherboard, especially since I paid like $230 for it. If it is safe, then I have no issues.
 
Arn't there any instructions that came with it? I've screwed up so many things in the past because I was too lazy to read the manual :(
 
Rizin said:
Nope, both sides of the insulator have the adhesive. Yeah, I feel the same way about putting it on my motherboard, especially since I paid like $230 for it. If it is safe, then I have no issues.
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Well, do the instructions tell you to apply the adhesive to the motherboard? If so, then I would apply them to it, but don't take my word for it.
 
The instructions might as well be in Japanese. They are worthless. They tell you absolutly nothing. For a $450 case.. you would think that you'd get decent instructions but.. lol nope. All it gives me is a little diagram showing that on the bottom of the motherboard you need an h-bracket, mylar, and the insulator. Says nothing about glue, and I haven't seen anyone else mention glue. I have been looking for about 4 hours and I have posted on 4 forums. :/
 
Well, have you posted a question to the tech guys at Thermaltake? It seems as if they have a good tech support crew. The thing is, I'm pretty sure that if the adhesive isn't conductive in any way, which more than likely, than you're fine. I would think that if it's an adhesive on a insulator, than its probably not conductive. I'd send a question to Thermaltake before anything though. Sorry, man. It stinks having to wait to install a new component once you get it...:(
 
Yeah I just went ahead and put it on. I have a warranty! ;) I will let you know how it runs when I get my PSU on Monday.
 
To mount the CPU water block you have to screw a metal h-plate, mylar, and insulator onto the bottom of the motherboard. The insulator is supposed to go against the motherboard, but it has removable paper which reveals an adhesive. I am curious to know if it is alright to apply this insulator with the adhesive exposed to the motherboard. I have an Asus P5WD2 Premium, and I figure I will roll with the old saying "better safe than sorry".
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Standard thermaltake: went through the same trouble when i installed the Silenttower on my Pressy ... but i dont think i took the paper off :P The only reason that thing is there is to avoid shorting stuff .. it is adhesevie so you can avoid having it slide around. have a look
here
 
Yeah, I just went ahead and did it. System runs fine, very stable. The cooling system was pretty hard to get going. I had too much air in the tubes and the pump couldn't push it through. A friend and I had to manually tip the case over more than 2 dozen times to guide the air through the tubes. After the air was out it started up and ran fine, at temps around 120F. After the AS5 settled, it dropped down to around 105F-110F. We decided to OC and we have it running at 3.6GHz very stable, and with no temperature increase. So, I must say even though the cooling system was a hassle to get started, it has already paid for itself, and it keeps my Pentium D (now) 3.6GHz running at around 100F-110F.

Also, if anyone is considering buying this case... GOOD LUCK. Thermaltake Tech Support is horrendous! As was the manual that came with their $450.00 case. It tells you absolutely nothing. We tried contacting them multiple times and each time they were "busy", or so said their machine.
 
Yeah, I just went ahead and did it. System runs fine, very stable. The cooling system was pretty hard to get going. I had too much air in the tubes and the pump couldn't push it through.
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I assume you've done the bleeding?
 
Too late now anyway ;). I doubt it will cause any problems.. I don't see a high caliber company like Thermaltake designing and distributing an acidic, corrosion causing mess :). Anyway, thank you for your responses!
 
Rizin said:
Too late now anyway ;). I doubt it will cause any problems.. I don't see a high caliber company like Thermaltake designing and distributing an acidic, corrosion causing mess :). Anyway, thank you for your responses!
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thats true:D
 
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